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Romeo And Juliet Are Responsible For Their Own Deaths?

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Romeo and Juliet are responsible for their own deaths, as they both knew their families’ hatred towards each other and decided to go forth with their decisions and actions. At the start of the play, Romeo is desperately “in love” with a nun named Rosaline, willing to do almost anything to see her, depressed from being apart from her. When he sees that her name is on the guest list of Capulet’s party, he jumps at the chance of seeing her again and decides to go. At the party, he sees Juliet, and immediately his heart belongs to Juliet, and he forgets about Rosaline. Romeo approaches Juliet, leading to the two of them dancing and eventually kissing. When Juliet enquires about his name to Nurse, she gets the answer “His name is Romeo, and a Montague, the only son of your great enemy.” In response to this, …show more content…

After the party is over, Juliet returns to her room and Romeo sneaks back into the Capulets’ property, climbing over their orchard fence and worrying Benvolio and Mercutio to no end about his whereabouts. While hiding in the shadows of the Capulet’s backyard, Romeo hears Juliet out on her balcony proclaiming her love for him. When he makes himself known, she jumps in surprise, though continues to talk to him, about their love and their future. They make plans to get married the next afternoon, and Romeo sets out on a hunt to find Friar Lawrence. When Romeo finds Friar, he tells him “I have been feasting with mine enemy, where on a sudden one hath wounded me, that’s by me wounded” and goes one to say “Then plainly know my heart’s dear love is set on the fair daughter of rich Capulet. As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine, and all combined, save what thou must combine by holy marriage.” He acknowledges that he is playing with fire, interacting with his enemy, and that when he met Juliet, he fell in love with her, and she fell in love with

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