“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” (V. iii. 320-321). The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers who have fallen in love despite the ongoing feud that their families face. In the short but dramatic story of their four day romance the two lovers meet, get married, are separated, and then die. They leave their families without a clue as to what has happened. With only two accomplices that knew about their forbidden love the families are left to decide, who’s to blame? There are many events that led up to the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet, some of which are the family feud, Romeo and Juliet, and Friar Lawrence.
The family feud is greatly to blame for the two deaths. This is
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“Along with thrilling dependency comes glimpsing the world through another’s eyes; forsaking some habits and adopting others (good or bad); tasting new ideas, rituals, foods or landscapes; a slew of added friends and family; a tapestry of physical intimacy and affection; and many other catalysts, including a tornadic blast of attraction and attachment hormones — all of which revamp the brain.” (Ackerman). This quote is talking about how when in love the brain has to change and adjust. It starts to adapt the way it thinks and sees the world. This is why I blame Romeo and Juliet, or, their love. They fell in love so quickly and got married so fast that their brains were still adjusting, they were making rash decisions and didn’t know how to act or feel when they were faced with Romeo’s banishment and Juliet’s faked-death. Their brains hadn’t yet learned how to deal with things happening to their significant others because it hadn’t adapted its thought process from being an ‘I’ to a ‘we’ yet. They also kept everything a secret and didn’t look for the best solution. When Romeo is banished he says he would rather die than be banished. Juliet was heartbroken but they could have both left together. They also had the opportunity later instead of Juliet faking her death she could have run away with Romeo. They were being rash and not thinking plans
question of which one is to blame the most for the deaths of Romeo and
Responsibility for Romeo and Juliet's Deaths There is much controversy to who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, a number of things and people could be held responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. But who is responsible for their deaths? Even before the play begins the grudge between the Capulet and Montague families has begun. Because of this, it becomes imminent that one thing or event will start off a sequence of incidents that will end in tragedy. The on-going feud between the Montague and Capulet families could be held responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, because if their was no feud between these families then Romeo and Juliet would have been able to have a safe normal relationship in which their family would have agreed to.
It think it was fate that they came from two families that hated each other, the likeliness of two lovers coming from families which have a deadly feud against one another is very low, so I think it must be fate. I also think that Friar Lawrence is largely responsible for the deaths, as his plan to use love to conquer hate went badly wrong. Friar Lawrence's good intention to make peace by using love to conquer hate also shows that the feud was the most responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. If the feud had not existed then there would've been no need for Friar to marry Romeo and Juliet in secret and
Because Romeo and Juliet both made life-changing decisions without even informing their parents, they felt they had to run away, which led to their deaths (5.3). Out of all the decisions, the choice to secretly marry, then fake their death so they can run away, were the decisions that set them on paths that spiraled down into both of their suicides.
Who is the most to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? There are many opinions on who is to blame for the deaths of these "star crossed lovers." One of these opinions is that both Romeo and Juliet are equally to blame for their own deaths. Romeo nor Juliet knew how to resolve their own problems and went directly to Friar Lawrence. Whenever Romeo and Juliet failed to resolve their problem, their resolution was suicide. Romeo and Juliet also withheld the love affair between them, from their families.
They should not have rushed the relationship with marriage: “ROMEO O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? JULIET What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?
I believe the father is at fault for Juliet’s death. I believe her father is responsible for her death because of the never ending feud he had with the Montagues, he forced her to marry someone she did not want to, and he changed the date of the wedding. Because of her father always fighting with the Montagues, Juliet was not able to marry Romeo, the person she actually loved. If the families would have not been fighting, they most likely would have let them marry each other since they are both rich. Another reason why he caused the death of his own daughter is by forcing her to marry someone she did not know. Juliet practically begs her father to not make her marry Paris but he refuses. Since Juliet is being forced to marry Paris, she drinks
In the play, Romeo and Juliet sneak out a lot to see each other. They do this because they are from rival families and their don’t want them to interact with each other at all. By sneaking around, it created more problems and Juliet drank a potion that would put her to sleep for a while and as a result, they both ended up killing themselves. They were both not listening to their parents and by doing that, it ended badly for both of them and their families.
Romeo and Juliet Imagine believing in love at first sight and seeing the most gorgeous women or the most handsom man. This being said would you take the relationship slow and at an easy going pace? Both Romeo and Juliet in the story Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare find themselves in this predicament. Some may say that Friar Laurence is the reason for Romeo and Juliet's death but all of his intensions were good. The friars only intention was to make the families whole and not fight.
Another one of Romeo’s bad decisions that was made because of his adolescents was falling in love with Juliet. Romeo is at this party that he is not supposed to be at and sees a girl from across the room. Romeo acknowledges her beauty calling her a “rich jewel in an ethiop's ear.”(1.5, 201). Romeo says she is very beautiful and that she is the girl that “doth enrich the hand” (1.5,201). Which means that she is so beautiful that he loves her and his adolescents makes him fall in love with this girl that he doesn't know. Him being an adolescent makes him make quick unthought through decisions, in this instance he falls in love with a girl he has never met. Mercutio knows that this adolescent will fall apart in the long run as when he is talking to benvolio he says, “if love be blind, love cannot hit the mark”(2.2, 33) Mercutio means by this that Romeo’s choice to fall in this blind love of Juliet will not last because as he says blind love really won't last because there is no love beyond the physical appearance of the two people and they do not have a personal connection that they can use to stay together for the rest of their lives. As he does many
Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story about a pair of star-crossed lovers whose demises were unexpected to most. However, their deaths were a result of their impulsiveness. It caused their problematic marriage, Romeo’s preventable death, as well as Juliet’s preventable death.
...t on the spot, and are too immature. Romeo and Juliet’s spring of blind love quickly deepens and causes them to face situation that they have never faced before. They do not know how to handle their bizarre complications, as the story takes a quick, unpredicted turn and turns into a nightmare for them. Romeo and Juliet are forced to make rash decisions one after the other and do not consider the possible solutions other than suicide, causing them to look up to suicide as their only hope. Their bizarre complications are caused by their blind, immature, and excessive love and their act of taking their own lives is also caused by immaturity, idolatry for each other, and the shortness of time. Romeo and Juliet suicide at the end of the story, due to the shortness of time and the extremity of their love; they believe that they have no other options, other than suicide.
Just as the Friar says in the beginning of the Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet, “Wisely and slowly, they stumble that run fast.” (II.iii.94). this was a sign of foreshadowing for for the death of the lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Even though fate was a factor that had contributed to a tragic end, there was also personal choice involved, and ultimately, the story may have had a different ending if it weren’t for the flaws of the lovers and their inability to have a grip on reality in dire circumstances. Over the course of the play, the lovers from the conflicting households have not matured and remain rather static in development. Furthermore, in this tragedy, the only son of the montages remains rather childlike, Juliet still seems immature and their relationship over all seems more like a play act on lover rather then something mature and sustainable. Overall, from start to finish, Romeo and Juliet were living in the moment, being absurd and silly rather then focusing on the future and trying to work problems out effectively.
Romeo’s numerous rash decisions demonstrates his great impulsiveness. Romeo at first grieves over his unreciprocated love for Rosaline, but after he sees Juliet; he forgets about Rosaline entirely. His hastiness leads him to make decisions that are not intelligent or to his benefit. Shortly after meeting Juliet, he asks her to “exchange [her] faithful vow” for his ( 2.2.132). Romeo’s recklessness is evident that he does not think before he makes important decisions; prompting him to propose to Juliet just hours after their first meeting. Yet the morning before, Romeo was suffering from depression because he could never have his Rosaline. After what seems like a lifetime of loving Rosaline and promising to never love anyone but her, Romeo sees Juliet and instantaneously all his thoughts of Rosaline vanish. Romeo becomes infatuated with Juliet, with whom he exchanges less then fifty words before “falling in love.” The next morning he begs Friar L...
...late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me/That I must love a loathed enemy.”(ACT I, Scene 5, Lines 152-155) Juliet had just found out that the man at the party she loved was one her family’s enemy. Love was evil and ruled her feelings. It messed with her feelings and made her fall in love with a foe. All in all, love will toy around with your feelings and there is nothing you can do to stop it.