Who Is Responsible For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet Essay

4. Who is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Be sure to use the text to prove your point.

Romeo and Juliet is a story of great tragedy, two young people, falling deeply in love, and at the end, not even spending a week together, but maybe in their own minds their love felt longer, like they loved a lifetime’s worth. They both tragically died, Romeo drinks poison because he thought Juliet had passed, and Juliet sheaths a dagger into herself when she saw Romeo had died. Could this tragedy have been avoided? Yes I feel like there are 3 people to blame for their deaths. Capulet, for trying to force Juliet to not do something, Romeo, because if he never killed Tybalt he never would have been banished sending Juliet into a depression,
The first instance of when they should have done something else, is when Romeo lashed out in anger towards Tybalt, if Romeo didn’t fight him, then he never would have never been banished, which would stop Juliet from being depressed, and so on. Or if Juliet didn’t just think on impulse when she heard the Friar’s plan, if she asked if there was another way to go about this, then that could have saved them. Finally when Romeo goes to the Capulet tomb, he should have met up with the Friar, and then the Friar would have explained everything, preventing their death. Romeo and Juliet definitely could have triumphed if they had better advice. Specifically if the Friar gave them better advice, the bad advice he gave was to be married in secret, if they didn’t do this and just asked their parents if they could marry each other with the Friar supporting them, then it would prevent their deaths, and would greatly fix the families feud. I feel like if Mercutio was alive, that he wouldn’t have helped them. Mercutio appears to be a hothead throughout the play, and appears to really hate the Capulets, if Mercutio found out Romeo loved Juliet, then he would probably be mad at him, and eventually try attacking