William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Who is to blame? In William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, there

is much controversy as to who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and

Juliet. In this tragedy, the two family's on going feud drives Romeo

to kill one of Juliet's relatives and thus he finds himself banned

from Verona. They then construct a plan to meet again, but when the

plan goes wrong, the two star crossed lovers take their own lives. The

question now is where to lay the blame of their deaths. The deaths can

be blamed on the parents, fate, or Romeo and Juliet. The parents of

Juliet can easily be seen as the possible cause's for their deaths.

One reason for this is that they are pushing Juliet to marry Paris.

Sir Paris "I will make a desperate tender of me child's love… a

Thursday, tell her she shall marry this noble earl." This section

shows Capulet's agreement with Paris to have him marry Juliet. Juliet

loves Romeo, and not Paris, but her father thoughts of Paris being a

suitable match make it so she has to marry him. Juliet, not thinking

into the future and what else could be possible, make's haste

decisions after her farther tells her "I tell thee what get to church

a Thursdays or ever after look me in the face. Speak not, reply not,

do not answer," and goes to the friar looking to kill herself. Her

father later makes a decision to move the wedding to Wednesday. This

greatly upsets Juliet. The desire of her father for Juliet to marry

and calling her a wretch and hussy run Juliet into a corner with

nothing left to do but marry to save herself.

Also, after Romeo kills Tybalt Juliet's mum says, "I'll send one in

Mantua, where that same banished runagate doth live, shall give him

such an unaccustomed dram that he should soon keep Tybalt company, and

then I hope thou wilt be satisfied". This gives Juliet the thought

that Romeo will be killed if her parents have anything to do with it