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Who's To Blame In Romeo And Juliet
Everyone has gotten into a fight with one of their siblings, and the big question is always, who started it? William Shakespeare was born in April of 1564, in Stratford Upon Avon, a town with about 2,000 people in it. He wrote 38 plays in only 23 years and one of those plays was Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy and was written around 1595. There are many unnecessary deaths in this play and everyone is to blame for them.
Not including Romeo or Juliet, the whole Montague and Capulet family is to blame. If Lord Capulet had not made Juliet marry Paris like it says here,”Marry, My child, early next Thursday morn/The gallant, young, and noble gentleman,/The County Paris…”(3.5.112-114), then she would not have bought the poison so she could fake her death and be with Romeo. If their families had not started the feud, then Romeo could have married Juliet without any affairs in the way and no one would have been killed. Mercutio would be alive because Tybalt would not have detested the Montagues. Tybalt would be alive because Romeo would not have been angry with him for killing his best friend, Mercutio. Paris would also be alive because he would not have fought with Romeo at the tomb of Juliet.
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Because of her young age like it says here,”She’s not fourteen./I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth,/And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four,/She’s not fourteen”(1.3.12-15), she does not have the decision making abilities to know that Romeo is the right person to marry. She needs to be older and have spent more time with him to truly know. She also jumps to rash decisions when her father, Lord Capulet, decides that she has to marry Paris. If she would not have said that the only choice was to kill herself if she had to marry Paris, and talked about the situation with her parents there would have been a different

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