The Story Has Ended, but the Truth is yet to be Told

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The play Romeo and Juliet brings up many questions during and even after reading/watching the play. Through all of the twists, turns, and obstacles that the characters overcome (and even the ones they do not) it is very hard for a person to fully understand Shakespeare’s intention as to who the “good guys” are, and as to who the “bad guys” are. But even so, assuming that Romeo, Juliet, and the Nurse are at fault for this helps to coincide with many arts of the play, as well as providing a logical answer to the question stated about Shakespeare’s intentions. As a result, Romeo, Juliet, and the Nurse are to blame for the outcome of the play.
A main reason why Romeo, Juliet and the Nurse are to blame for the outcome of the play is because of Romeo’s careless actions throughout the course of the play. In the beginning, Romeo stabbed Tybalt after their dual had officially ended as shown in 3.1 of Romeo and Juliet, when Romeo says:
ROMEO [Alive] in triumph, and Mercutio slain!
Away to heaven, respective lenity,
And [fire-eyed] fury be my conduct now.—
Now, Tybalt, take the “villain” back again
That late thou gavest me, for Mercutio’s soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
Staying for thine to keep him company.
Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.
TYBALT Thou wretched boy that didst consort him here
Shalt with him hence.
ROMEO This shall determine that.
They fight. Tybalt falls.
BENVOLIO Romeo, away begone!
The citizens are up, Tybalt slain.
Stand not amazed. The prince will doom thee death
If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away.
ROMEO O, I am Fortune’s fool!
BENVOLIO Why dost thou stay?
Romeo exits (3.1.127-142).
Romeo does in fact deserve a part in the blame for whose ...

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...he play, Romeo, Juliet, and the Nurse are to blame for the outcome of the play.
Romeo, Juliet, and the Nurse are to blame for the outcome of the play. It is not in any way a bad assumption to assume that Shakespeare’s were to present Romeo, Juliet, and the Nurse as the “bad guys” in the play. It is always important in life to be able to separate the good from the bad and the bad from the good, and to back up an argument with true facts. In court, and election, or just a game, a person must be able to differentiate the good from the bad, the right from the wrong, the true from the false in order to preserve justice in society. The important things in life are not black and white, they contain many gray areas, and the human race must learn explore the gray areas to decide what is black and what is white, what is unfair, and what is fair, what is bad and what is good.

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