Who Was To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death

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Well, there isn’t one sole entity to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death but rather a combination of people throughout the book. Some more than others, but if they were to be blame the whole incident on one sole person in my opinion that person is Romeo. Romeo is a “Handsome” 17-year-old in the story who quite frankly took things way to fast in his relationship with Juliet the not quite 14 year old girl. One of the reasons why its his fault more than others that took part in the whole incident is because he was Impulsive and took things way to fast with Juliet. Every time he was with Juliet it just got faster and faster and faster. In the beginning of the story Romeo was in love with a girl named Rosaline and once he saw Juliet, he immediately …show more content…

However, Romeo is still most to blame because he doesn’t think before he speaks or acts like when he killed Tybalt. Romeo and the Montagues got into a fight with the Capulets, his cousin Mercutio was fighting Tybalt and was aging on and on about how he was going to kill Tybalt while the whole fighting is going on Romeo is trying to stop it all. Well in the end Tybalt kills Mercutio because Romeo distracts him and that infuriates Romeo, and he seeks revenge without even thinking and duels with Tybalt because they both were to blame for Mercutio’s death which ends in Tybalt’s death which is another example of Romeo’s impulsiveness and ending with his own banishment. If Romeo would not have been banished in the first place there would be no need for Friar’s message, nor for Juliet to fake her own death and all would be well, but as a result for his impulsiveness the story plays out like it …show more content…

Romeo and Juliet, both knew it was going to be trouble trying to have a lasting relationship because of there families past and their parents hating one another. But even knowing that they still tried to make the relationship work because by the time they found out who the person they fell in love with was by that time it was much too late for both. Romeo was the first to fall in love at the sight of Juliet and then went up to Juliet and caused her to fall in love with him. I don’t understand why he went up to Juliet in the first place if he was still apparently so in love with Rosaline. So, in the end who is to blame for their own deaths? Still a combination of everyone but most at fault

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