Romeo And Juliet Tragedy Essay

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Everyone is to blame Everyone is to blame for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo, Juliet, Friar Laurence, and Romeo and Juliet’s parents all played their own role in causing the four deaths of Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, and Paris. It is not just one of them to blame, every one of them did something to cause the tragedy. Some of them played a bigger role than others, but everyone contributed. Fate had nothing to do with it and it was all the different characters faults. Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence’s rash decisions where the main cause of the tragedy. The meaning of fate is the development of events beyond a person’s control. If they went by that definition the tragedy is completely character flaw and not fate at all. Romeo, Juliet, their …show more content…

Romeo had a few character flaws that helped cause this. One of these was him going to the dance. If he had never gone to that dance then he would have never met Juliet, meaning the tragedy would have never happened. Juliet's father also had a character flaw that tied into this, he let Romeo stay after Tybalt told him that there was Romeo there who is a Montague. If he had listened to Tybalt then Romeo would have not met Juliet. Another one of Romeo's character flaws was a lot later in the story. He was told that Juliet had died and he rushed to her tomb. When he got there he said to himself that she did not look dead because she was not really pale and still had a reddish tint to her cheeks. If he would have been more observant he could have known that she did not actually die and that would have prevented the death of him and Juliet. Juliet also had some character flaws. One of them was her wanting to marry Romeo. She knew that she was not supposed to marry anyone from the Montague family because of the big feud. She ended up getting married to him despite the feud among the families. This marriage was where the Friar messed up. He should not have agreed to secretly get Romeo and Juliet married, he could have just told them no. Instead he got them married …show more content…

Another mess up he had was not having a backup plan. His plan was to give Juliet a potion that made her seem dead so that she would not have to marry Paris. A messenger was suppose to bring a message to Romeo telling him Juliet is not actually dead and that he needed to go to the tomb. When he got there he was suppose to wait till she woke up and then they would run away together with their parents thinking that they are dead. This master plan failed drastically, it lead to the deaths of Romeo, Paris, and Juliet. The message never made it to Romeo due to the messenger getting the black plague. Romeo was told that Juliet was actually dead so he rushed to her tomb and saw Paris and ended up killing him. After that he saw Juliet dead and he killed himself. When Juliet woke up she killed herself to because Romeo was dead. If the Friar had a simple backup plan like being somewhere around there until Juliet awoke then it could have prevented the deaths of the two lovers and Paris. He made another mistake during all of this. After Romeo killed himself the Friar entered the tomb and

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