Who was to blame for the tragic events that happened in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet? Who can you blame for all the events that had happened, did Shakespeare even think about who may or may not be the cause of Romeo and Juliet’s death? Romeo is the character most to blame for the tragic events in Romeo and Juliet because if he didn’t go to the Capulet party he would have never met juliet and fall in love with her, also if Juliet didn’t see Romeo sleeping (thinking he was dead) juliet wouldn’t have killed herself to be with him forever and then if juliet didn’t die either would Romeo, and if Romeo didn’t kill Tybalt he wouldn’t have been banned from the city of Verona. Romeo is the most to blame for the events that occur in Romeo and Juliet because he should have never gone to the Capulet party. If Romeo never went to the Capulet party he would have never met Juliet that night. When Romeo first saw Juliet he said,” What lady is that which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight”. That means that he saw Juliet and he is asking who the lady is who is holding the knights arm. If Romeo had never seen Juliet he would have never known she even existed. If Romeo hadn’t seen Juliet this …show more content…
Juliet had tried and kiss Romeo’s lips to die with him, but she doesn’t know that he didn’t drink the poison and there was none, then she says,” Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.” Juliet is saying “ I here a noise, I will be quick (quick with the death), O good I see a knife, my body will be your sheath, rust inside of me and let me die”. This is showing us how Juliet had died because of why she thought Romeo was dead. If Romeo had never met juliet at the party then juliet would never had found him sleeping thinking he was dead and killed
Who’s to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death is a topic that is often discussed in many high school English classes. In my English class we have also talked about this subject and I have made a list of people to blame. The first person or people would be the Lords of the House. The second person or people I would blame would be Romeo and Juliet themselves. The last person I would blame is Friar Laurence.
The question of who is most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet can be complicated. Almost everybody in the play can be blamed because everybody has pitched in a little. There are many characters in the play by William Shakespeare who wronged Romeo and Juliet. The characters that contributed the most to Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths are Friar Laurence, Lord Capulet and Paris. First of all, Friar Laurence is responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet because he has done some stuff that Romeo didn’t know about.
Have you ever heard about a story of two totally different houses of people who met each other and fell in love and unfortunately their love leads to death? In the play, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet's love at first sight. 2 main characters Romeo and Juliet in different houses at Verona. Juliet belongs to Capulet compared to Romeo belongs to Montague. They hated, despise one another for over the past decades.
Fate is a major theme that circulates in the play, Romeo and Juliet. In Act 3 Scene 3 Lines 182-184 Juliet says, “Oh, noise? Then I’ll be quick. Oh, good, a knife! My body will be your sheath.
Zane Gerbo Mrs. M. English 1-2 21 April 2023 The Tragic Death of Juliet Countless people ponder who is responsible for the death of Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare’s tragic play Romeo and Juliet takes place in Verona, Italy, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and end up committing suicide because of their families rivalry. The most responsible individual for the tragic death of Juliet is Friar Lawrence because he secretly married Romeo and Juliet and gave Juliet the flask to fake her death so she could run away with Romeo when she finally gains consciousness (Act 2-4). Friar’s scheme fails, leaving Juliet alone with Romeo’s dagger; as a result, Juliet ends up killing herself over Romeo’s death (Act
In the Elizabethan tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare, the characters that are known to be adored, can even be the cause of adversities throughout the beautiful play. Many characters could be accountable for the death of Romeo and Juliet. It might be the Nurse, who had very poor judgement, stringing Juliet along in a relationship that wouldn’t last. Would it be Tybalt, the violent cousin, who resented Romeo? Unexpectedly, the person who is to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet is the carefree Romeo.
Similarly, after Juliet had woken up from her deep sleep, she found Romeo dead and she did not want to live anymore, ”Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust and let me die” (5.3.183-184). Juliet had a bright future in front of her, however, she chose to be with Romeo by killing herself with a dagger.
when he finds out that Juliet is dead, but doesn’t know she faked her death. Then Romeo sets out in his sorrow to an apothecary and says, “Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor: hold, there is forty ducats: let me have a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear as will disperse itself through all the veins that the life-weary taker may fall dead and that the trunk may be discharged of breath as violently as hasty powder fired doth hurry from the fatal cannon 's womb.” These quotes show you that Romeo is planning to kill himself because of Juliet faking her death, which Romeo doesn’t know about. In the end, Romeo kills himself by poison and dies by Juliet and then Juliet stabs herself and dies when she finds Romeo dead.
" Shakespeare uses the pun, "rust," to show how Juliet is killing herself with an iron dagger. Juliet says, “oh happy
The play states, “'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife/ Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that/Which the commission of thy years and art/Could to no issue of true honor bring./Be not so long to speak. I long to die/ If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy,” (Shakespeare vi.i.64-69). A reader can understand here that Juliet is forcing Friar to make a plan to get her out of marrying Paris, but if he doesn’t then she’ll kill herself.
The story is about a tragedy death of two star-crossed lovers, and how they fell in love falling in love. Romeo starts by going after a girl named Rosalina, and then falls madly in love when the beauty of Juliet. Romeo and Juliet meet at the Capulet’s party, and then fall instantly in love, with each other, and get married in the Friar Laurence office. While Romeo and Juliet physically committed the acts that ended there own lives, the long-stand family feuding and fate should be blamed for their deaths.
The story of Romeo and Juliet is probably one of the best-known plays that William Shakespeare wrote. It follows the story of two lovers from different houses that try to live a life together, but their story is cut short when they both sadly died. Now Aristotle theorized that “One’s fate is determined in part by hamartia, or fatal flaw, or by one’s own errors.” (Flow, Erin, Does fate Control Our Actions or Does Man’s Free Will?)
After that he told Juliet to drink a so called Poison without telling Romeo first. Which this then all added up to Romeo seeing Juliet dead, Killing himself, this way making Juliet commit suicide as she woke up seeing Romeo's Knife as he lie beside he with a bottle of poison in his hands. As Juliet took her life she said "O' Happy Dagger" which could mean that she really loved Romeo and would do anything to clearly state
In the scene, Juliet is saying farewell to Romeo to hopefully reunite with him after she wakes up from her coma-like state. Juliet yells at the Nurse that is close by the room and thinks to herself that she must take this vial alone with no around to watch. Yet, when Juliet almost drinks the vial she hesitates and questions if the mixture would work at all and wonders what the Friar gave her instead, to have her dead. Juliet then realizes that when she wakes up in time from her sleep she will reunite with her lover Romeo. However, Her tone begins to change all over again; for instance, she points out that “there’s a fearful point to where she will be restrained vault and die where she will lay.”
A letter is sent to Romeo in Mantua, but he unfortunately doesn’t receive it soon enough. Romeo hears about his love’s death and not knowing it is a set up, drinks a potion because he feels as though he can’t live without her. When Juliet awakes to see Romeo dead, she stabs herself