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Who Was To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death Essay

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Who was to blame for the tragic events that happened in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet? Who can you blame for all the events that had happened, did Shakespeare even think about who may or may not be the cause of Romeo and Juliet’s death? Romeo is the character most to blame for the tragic events in Romeo and Juliet because if he didn’t go to the Capulet party he would have never met juliet and fall in love with her, also if Juliet didn’t see Romeo sleeping (thinking he was dead) juliet wouldn’t have killed herself to be with him forever and then if juliet didn’t die either would Romeo, and if Romeo didn’t kill Tybalt he wouldn’t have been banned from the city of Verona. Romeo is the most to blame for the events that occur in Romeo and Juliet because he should have never gone to the Capulet party. If Romeo never went to the Capulet party he would have never met Juliet that night. When Romeo first saw Juliet he said,” What lady is that which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight”. That means that he saw Juliet and he is asking who the lady is who is holding the knights arm. If Romeo had never seen Juliet he would have never known she even existed. If Romeo hadn’t seen Juliet this …show more content…

Juliet had tried and kiss Romeo’s lips to die with him, but she doesn’t know that he didn’t drink the poison and there was none, then she says,” Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.” Juliet is saying “ I here a noise, I will be quick (quick with the death), O good I see a knife, my body will be your sheath, rust inside of me and let me die”. This is showing us how Juliet had died because of why she thought Romeo was dead. If Romeo had never met juliet at the party then juliet would never had found him sleeping thinking he was dead and killed

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Who’s to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death is a topic that is often discussed in many high school English classes. In my English class we have also talked about this subject and I have made a list of people to blame. The first person or people would be the Lords of the House. The second person or people I would blame would be Romeo and Juliet themselves. The last person I would blame is Friar Laurence.

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After that he told Juliet to drink a so called Poison without telling Romeo first. Which this then all added up to Romeo seeing Juliet dead, Killing himself, this way making Juliet commit suicide as she woke up seeing Romeo's Knife as he lie beside he with a bottle of poison in his hands. As Juliet took her life she said "O' Happy Dagger" which could mean that she really loved Romeo and would do anything to clearly state

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In the scene, Juliet is saying farewell to Romeo to hopefully reunite with him after she wakes up from her coma-like state. Juliet yells at the Nurse that is close by the room and thinks to herself that she must take this vial alone with no around to watch. Yet, when Juliet almost drinks the vial she hesitates and questions if the mixture would work at all and wonders what the Friar gave her instead, to have her dead. Juliet then realizes that when she wakes up in time from her sleep she will reunite with her lover Romeo. However, Her tone begins to change all over again; for instance, she points out that “there’s a fearful point to where she will be restrained vault and die where she will lay.”

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when he finds out that Juliet is dead, but doesn’t know she faked her death. Then Romeo sets out in his sorrow to an apothecary and says, “Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor: hold, there is forty ducats: let me have a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear as will disperse itself through all the veins that the life-weary taker may fall dead and that the trunk may be discharged of breath as violently as hasty powder fired doth hurry from the fatal cannon 's womb.” These quotes show you that Romeo is planning to kill himself because of Juliet faking her death, which Romeo doesn’t know about. In the end, Romeo kills himself by poison and dies by Juliet and then Juliet stabs herself and dies when she finds Romeo dead.

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