Who Is To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death

Is your hatred worth sacrificing someone you love? In this play, two star-crossed lovers commit suicide for their love; but whose fault was Romeo & Juliet’s death? Throughout Romeo & Juliet Fate and Friar Lawrence have played a big role in their lives, but their family feud had caused their deaths.
To begin with, the Montagues and Capulets have had a long-heated rivalry, and hate each other with a burning passion. Families were forbidden to befriend one another due to their “parents rage,” and “parents strife”. Lady Capulet forces Juliet to marry at a young age because “ladies of esteem are made already mothers,” implying that she is old. Capulet is a forceful father, who can be abusive, and this is shown when he tells Juliet, “I will drag thee on a hurdle thither” when he was trying to get her married. He blackmailed Juliet by telling her if she does not marry Paris, then “ never look me in the face”. Her family is very pressuring, and in that time period it didn’t look good to be independent; but her mother always listened to Capulet since he was dominant in the relationship. The “ancient grudge” between the Montagues and Capulets destined that Romeo and Juliet were never meant to be.

Perhaps, the mother’s “fatal loins” had been cursed, and they became “‘death-mark’d lovers’ since the announcement of their birth. Romeo knows they were not meant to be together because of Fate, so says “I defy you, stars!” because he was aware of the fact that they were “star crossed loved”. Even Friar Lawrence claims that the couple has bad luck when he was told the letter wasn’t delivered, that this was an “unhappy fortune,” and “lamentable chance”. From the beginning, the mother’s “fatal loins” had been cursed, and thus their life had been planned out. They were star-crossed lovers, so Romeo and Juliet were destined to