Essay Who Is Responsible For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet

Is it possible to have more than one person responsible for deaths of Romeo and Juliet or was it Romeo or Juliet? What if it was not even a person and something intangible? The play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare is tragedy. Romeo and Juliet is a story of two star-crossed lovers, who happen to be in feuding families, that would go to the end of the world to be together. Friar Laurence, Romeo and Juliet themselves, and the feuding families are most responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence is the person in charge of making sure Romeo and Juliet are a married couple. The Friar’s first move into doing this is saying he will secretly marry them by saying, “But come, young waverer, come, go with me/In one respect I’ll thy assistant be/For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your households' rancor to pure love”(II,iii,89-92). Because the Friar agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet, he has now started something that he knows will be extremely hard to do through their conflicting families. The Friar should have considered the consequences that would come with accepting to do this favor. After Friar Laurence finds out about Romeo killing Tybalt and Romeo’s banishment, he comes up with a plan by saying, “Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back/With twenty hundred thousand times more joy/Than thou

The question of who is responsible for their deaths is still up for debate, but the ones who are most responsible are Friar Laurence, Romeo and Juliet, and the Montagues and Capulets. It could not have been anyone else because no one else was involved as much as these people. These people may not have killed these two star-crossed lovers, but they all are held responsible for a piece of the puzzle in this melancholy tragedy, of Romeo and