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Romeo And Juliet's Faults

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The death of the title couple in Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is their own faults. Romeo, for instance, is evidently a brash and naive child who has “so soon forsaken” (2:3:73) his affections toward Rosaline, becoming shallowly enamored with Juliet’s “true beauty” (1:5:58) without any knowledge of her identity. The Friar rightfully criticizes the teenager’s affections toward Juliet as “not truly in [his] heart, but in [his] eyes”(2:3:72). His lack of self control creates issues for both of the families and for his own life. He decides to go against the logic of restraining his sudden affliction for his “foe”(1:5:132) and creates demise for the both of them by initiating a relationship that they could not foreseeably sustain.

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