How Is Romeo And Juliet Responsible For Their Own Actions

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ROMEO AND JULIET

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Ultimately, the deaths of Romeo and Juliet have more to do with their own actions, than the actions of others. Do you agree?

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families which disrupts the city of Verona. It is a tragic story of their blighted love between two young star-crossed lovers and of their parents’ feud continuing anger, which lead to their children’s deaths. Ultimately, their death has more to do with their rash actions, immaturity and poor support from families and friends than the action of others. These actions can be seen in the play itself displaying both families as well as the destruction and the toxic love that the two of them engage

Romeo and Juliet have been quite un-thoughtful of and tend to not consider their actions. In Tybalt’s duel with Romeo, Romeo declines and Mercutio stepping in but only getting himself killed as well in Act Three, Scene One. Romeo was too careless and he was full of anger blaming it all on Tybalt. His rage lead him to blindness, confusion, and revenge from Mercutio: “Either, thou, or I, on both must go with him,” proclaims Romeo in an unexpected manner, and only then realising his biggest mistake that had on Juliet and on himself as Tybalt is Juliet’s cousin and now Romeo’s cousin as well. He never really considered that not killing anyone will also get his revenge but instead Romeo receiving banishment from Verona as a result of his poor actions. This leads to Juliet’s feigned death. But also Romeo was unaware of that plan in the future for him was also the reason Juliet and him committed suicide. Another way he could have handled his situation was just telling Tybalt about Romeo and Juliet’s marriage which leads to a completely different path but could have a bigger result of the effect on his consequences. Shakespeare shows lots of empathy in his plays to let the audience know of their rash action but also the love they share. Juliet takes rash actions more poorly as she accepts Friar’s plan without thinking which

But despite being young, they learned fast because of the time period they were from so they both should have been mature at that stage. It does show their own actions are to blame for their tragic demises. A key understanding of immaturity is having poor judgment and negligence towards the dangers that we face and society itself, without this skill, they are unable to learn from their mistakes, Shakespeare conveys immaturity of Romeo with Benvolio in Act 3 and says “O, I am fortune’s fool!” This means the misunderstanding and use of fate and blames fate for the reason he gets to that position. An example of Juliet showing immaturity can be also found in Act III when Juliet pleads the nurse to ‘comfort’ and ‘counsel’ her in regards to her impending marriage. But Juliet decides to seek another for advice, Friar Lawrence which leads her to the same stage. She could have thought through the many things that would have gone wrong but too concentrated for the love Romeo and herself shares. Both of them have the same goal, love, and relationship but their families are apart and she would even leave her family to be with Romeo. So she continues with the plan that ‘she is stifled in the vault’ and has no healthsome air’ to breathe in proves that she is thoughtful of how dangerous this maybe. Though she still risks everything to be with Romeo.