Romeo and Juliet fall in love at first sight. But they are of feuding families and cannot be truly together. Their families feud breaks them apart and forces them not to be together, leaving Juliet to marry Paris unless she can change what is to happen. Juliet drinks a potion given to her by Friar Lawrence and falls into a sleep that makes her seem to be dead. Then Romeo finds out about Juliet's death and he cannot live with the grief and sadness of living without her and buys poison so that he can be with her in death. “These violent delights have violent ends”(2.6.9). Who are the ones to blame for the tragedies, Romeo, Juliet, and Paris are to blame for the tragedies. Romeo is to blame for the tragedy, because he pursued the forbidden …show more content…
Juliet can only think about Romeo after she falls in love with him, and can’t see that she could have been with Paris who was a Count. “(aside) Villain and he be many miles asunder. (to Lady Capulet) God pardon Him! I do, with all my heart, And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart”(3.5.81-83). Juliet forgives Romeo for killing Tybalt, even though it saddened her that Tybalt had died and by his hand. Some might argue that Juliet isn’t to blame for the tragedy. However, Juliet must have been deeply in love with Romeo to have been willing to fake her own death just to be with him over Paris who was a Count, and forgive him for Tybalt's …show more content…
In a way, Paris may have wanted to marry Juliet, because her of her beauty and the love he felt toward Juliet. Paris only asked Juliet's parents if he could marry Juliet, “But woo her, get her heart. My will to her consent is but a part”(1.2.16-17). Juliet’s parents told Paris that he had to get Juliet to fall for him, but he didn’t and they just arranged them to be married anyway. Juliet may have agreed to marry Paris, but she never wanted him as a husband. Some may argue that Paris isn’t to blame, but Paris was one of the people responsible for Romeo and Juliet not being able to be together, because Paris didn’t want Romeo and Juliet to be
Many have said that romance brings love and affection, but when taken to the extreme, it can lead to tragedy and despair. Among the great literary tragedies, Romeo and Juliet may be the most famous of them all. The eternal feud between the Montegues and Capulets prohibits the love of Romeo and Juliet and ultimately results in their unfortunate deaths. It may be difficult to truly determine who is to blame for the tragedy, because their lives had been influenced, criticized, and controlled by many figures. Among the most important characters, Friar Lawrence enables the forbidden marriage of the two lovers and devises a plan to ensure that they end up together. On the other hand, Lord and Lady Capulet feed into the rivalry between the two
The definition of blame, holding someone accountable for an action or result. In the story Romeo and Juliet, there is a lot of blame going around. The people or things deserving the most blame are the Capulet and Montague feud, Lady and Lord Capulet, and Romeo and Juliet. The feud caused the prince to issue a warning telling if the Capulets and Montagues were ever seen fighting again, death would occur. This in the end caused the death of Tybalt and Mercutio. They forced the second marriage to Paris upon Juliet, the first being to Romeo. Juliet went to Friar Laurence to seek a way out of it and got a potion. Romeo and Juliet, the two star-crossed lovers mentioned in the prologue who got married just hours after knowing each other. Romeo's impulsiveness
Romeo and Juliet, the Shakespearean playwright of two star crossed lovers, ends in two tragic deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. Who can be hold responsible for their deaths, when so many things went wrong along the way? Many could be held responsible for the deaths of the two lovers, but Romeo himself deserves to carry the heavier load of responsible for not only his death, but the death of his lover, Juliet as well. The young boy’s acts of irresponsibility, impulse, belligerence, immaturity, and streak of bad decisions only brought definite consequences to both himself and Juliet.
A: She tells Juliet to marry Paris because Romeo is gone and will probably never return.If he never comes back, no one will ever know that they were married. She also thinks that Paris will make a better husband for
One of the final people to make their mark on Romeo and Juliet is Paris. Paris is seeking Juliet’s hand in marriage and, from the start, is turned down as Capulet tells him, (quote). Capulet explains to Paris that he still believes Juliet to be too young to marry and that the offer is okay by him but that it must be accepted by Juliet as well. As Capulet goes on, he continues to encourage Paris to look for other suitors and even invites Paris to the party so that he may find other women there. As more events come into place and Juliet becomes distraught from Romeo’s banishment, Paris again comes into play. This time, however, he creates devastating results. Capulet, seeing his daughter’s anguish, decides to help her regain joy by marrying her off to Paris. This seemingly harmless act sets off the entire plan, to which Juliet drinks poison to fake her death and get out of the marriage. The rest of the plan is that Friar Lawrence should send a letter to Romeo in Manchua, and then he would arrive to take Juliet away when she awakes. Here, an unexpected change occurs, a change for the worse. Romeo fails to receive the letter and is informed of Juliet’s death, not
Not only was Juliet against getting married so young, she especially didn't want to be together with someone that she did not love. She tried to make her opinion about Paris known to her parents and she told them that she can not bring herself to marry him. But instead of backing up their daughter, taking her feelings into
Lord Capulet is forcing Juliet to get married and doesn’t take into consideration that Juliet doesn’t desire to get married. Lord Capulet conversed to Paris, “ . . . Thursday tell her, she shall be married to this noble earl” (Shakespeare 198). Lord Capulet is indubitable for wanting Juliet ot get married, and arranges the wedding, as she is unaware of this. He plans the wedding thinking it will assist her from her grief of Tybalt dying, but he doesn’t know that for certain, and is planning something that will greatly affect her future, without her consent. Furthermore, this quote shows that when Juliet gave an ixnay on why she did not aspire to marry Paris, Capulet belabored her until she was on the ground crying asking for the nurses aid. Lord Capulet explains to Juliet, “But fettle your fine joints ‘gainst Thursday next, go with Paris to Saint Peters Church or I will drag thee on a hurdle*” (Shakespeare 214). This proves Capulet wants nothing more for his daughter than to get married to Paris, and it shows the extent he will go to, to receive his wish. Overall, Lord and Lady Capulet want Juliet to get married to Paris more than she wants to. This shows they don’t mind if she’s happy or not, as long as they get what they want. This goes deeper into the accusation that Juliet’s parents are at fault for the adolescents
The two characters of Romeo and Paris are extremely different individuals with their own values and opinions. Both of these men are in love with Juliet but at the end of the play neither of them are able to be with her because they have died. But, the two characters do die for, in a way, similar reasons which is that they both love Juliet. This is one of the characters similarities even though they do not posses much in common with each other. Paris dies on account of because he loves Juliet he confronts Romeo at her tomb thinking that he is there to disrespect Juliet's body because of his banishment and his "hate" for the Capulets. In doing so Paris falls at the hand of Romeo and dies. Romeo does die in a different way but also because he
When Mercutio is killed, Romeo avenges his death, and ends up having to leave instead of staying with Juliet. Another person who could be blamed his Juliet’s father and his forceful behaviour. He, and not only him, but her mother, should have paid more attention to Juliet’s wishes when she refused to marry Paris. It is clear in this day, anyone who had the chance to get out of a marriage they are being forced, especially when you’re that young, into will obviously do it, and even despite the parents who are trying to enforce it will not be able to stop it.
If she had decided to marry Paris like she was meant to, she may have still had a chance at being with Romeo. Once her mother tells her she is to be married, Juliet reacts very poorly. “He shall not make me a joyful bride!” (Shakespeare 248). If she had tried to consider the option, juliet would not have “poisoned” herself (to be fake dead), which would have prevented Romeo actually killing himself from doing the same, only for real.An after letting her father know her feelings, he becomes outraged. “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!... My fingers itch.” (Shakespeare 249). Capulet is very angry with his daughter which leads to Juliet feeling like their was no other way to live that to fake her death to be with her “love”. And even if Juliet had to marry Paris, she would still be able to communicate with Romeo, but since she had no intention on marrying him, Juliet took the potion, which led to both her an Romeos
Romeo kills Tybalt who is Juliet’s cousin and she is sad; however, she still loves Romeo with all of her heart. “Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars” (3. 2. 23-24). This quote shows how even after Juliet found out about the death of Tybalt she still loved Romeo, and wished to be with him. After the death of Tybalt, Romeo is kicked out of Verona.
Paris was not a bad match for Juliet and she could’ve lived a luxurious life with her family and friends- had she obeyed her parents. While her marriage with Romeo is completely irrational because of the fact that both families would never agree to it and it would lead to acts of violence and mishap. “But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; My will to her consent is but a part…” (I.ii.16-17).
Near the end of the drama, when Capulet decides that Juliet is going to marry Paris, Juliet becomes angry ,owing to her love for Romeo- not Paris. When Juliet argues about the situation, “I pray you tell my lord and father, madam,/ I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear/ It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate/ Rather than Paris. ”(3.5.121-4) , her father snarls back at Juliet divulging
However, Paris' ways and desires are evidently more hedonistically expressed, while Romeo's serve a great purpose and have the direction of reuniting those who belong together naturally; restoring his prior honor and ridding himself of the dishonor of exile, and particularly murder, regardless of whether it had been intentional or not. Namely, Romeo requests to Friar Lawrence that he plan for him to reunite with Juliet by making it appear that she is deceased on her wedding day with Paris, and for him to avoid the extremely negative ramifications of exile, for one never being able to so much as see Juliet again, let alone marrying her. On the other hand, Paris apparently pursues only Juliet herself, specifically her beauty and all the other characteristics Romeo loves about her, and had loved about her at first sight. It is clear from this that Romeo values his, Juliet's, and everyone else's honor, even those of his sworn enemies, whereas Paris upholds only those events which contribute to his own good - his own ego and/or happiness. These truths have exposed deep insights into the characters' personalities, and into their true desires and