Who Is To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death

From the beginning of the play, we are told that Romeo and Juliet are victims of fate, star crossed lovers whose deaths are unavoidable. I disagree, there are many different actions and thought that could have been different and that could have stopped their deaths. Three of the thoughts, actions, and people that could have stopped Romeo and Juliet's deaths are the feud between the families, Romeo and Juliet’s thoughts, and the friar. There are many scenes and acts that support my disagreement to the statement. The first action that could have prevented their deaths is the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues.

The Capulets and the Montagues have a feud which caused Romeo and Juliet not to be able to tell their family about their marriage. Since they had to keep that a secret they both had to make sacrifices to hide their marriage. Those sacrifices lead them to both make bad decisions. …show more content…
If he didn’t marry Juliet none of the secrets would have happened. Since he allowed it and was the one who married them it caused them to have to be secretive about their marriage. If the friar didn’t allow or marry them or old Romeo and Juliet to talk to their fathers about this, their deaths could have been avoided. The friar also was the one who had the plan of Juliet drinking the poison and telling Romeo about their plan to run off together. The friar failed to give the letter to Romeo causing both Romeo and Juliet to kill themselves. If the friar got the message to Romeo in time both of them wouldn’t have ended up dead. “Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone; Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilling liquor drink thou off;” This is what the friar said to Juliet and he made the plan up and in the end it failed. The plan caused both Romeo and Juliet to misunderstand what was going on. That misunderstanding lead to both of their