Romeo Is To Blame Essay

Imagine six people dying, some of them close to you and some not so close. Then you find out it’s all your fault and everyone blames you for their deaths. This is what happened to Romeo in the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare. Romeo is to blame for most of the tragedies because he killed Tybalt, he married into a rival family, and he is too emotional.
Firstly, Romeo killed Tybalt and was reckless. For example, after Romeo kills Tybalt, Lady Capulet says, “Romeo slew Tybalt. Romeo must not live” ….. this is a pure example of how Romeo was a killer and had slayed Tybalt. Another prime example is when the prince says, “Whom Romeo’s hand did slay. Romeo, that spoke him fair, bade him bethink How nice the quarrel was and urged withal Your high displeasure. All this uttered”(1.3.156-158 ). This shows that he did get in trouble for killing someone and just shows that his hand slayed Tybalt.

He would get butt hurt for everything and took things personally. For example, Romeo was overthinking what he would do if Juliet died, he says “As if that name, Shot from the deadly level of a gun, Did murder her, as that name’s cursed hand” (1.3.7-9). Secondly, another example is when Romeo was over exaggerating a situation and says “I must indeed, and therefore came I hither. Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. Fly hence and leave me. Think upon these gone”(5.3.65-67). This demonstrates how Romeo was so sensitive and over dramatic for anything, even the smallest