Who Was Responsible for the Tragedy in 'Romeo and Juliet'?

Although it is difficult to determine who or what is the most responsible for the tragic ending of Romeo and juliet, I believe that the eternal feud between the Montagues and Capulets that prohibits the love of Romeo and Juliet is what can be blamed most for their unfortunate deaths.

Without the help of the Nurse, Romeo and Juliet would not have married or had a way to interact with each other. This is clearly shown in Act II Scene V where the Nurse talks to Romeo about the marriage plans. “I will tell her, sir that up do protests, which, as I take it is a gentlemanlike offer.”(836) If the Nurse had not been present as a messenger, communication between Romeo and Juliet would have been difficult and extremely risky. The Nurse is a mother figure to Juliet because, she takes care of Juliet and gives her advice. There are many situations where Juliet relies on the Nurse. For instance on her wedding night, the nurse helps Romeo by getting him a ladder to Juliet’s room. Thus, the Nurse influences the story by bringing the two young lovers together and helping them marry.

Did you ever wonder what was the main reason for the deaths in Romeo & Juliet. This play is about Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare. The story started off with two families fuding. Romeo, one of the main characters, in love with another woman. He was later rejected by her, and then turned into a state of depression. His friend, Mercutio, decided that he should go to a party to get over the rejection. When Romeo arrived he looked for Rosaline, instead he found Juliet. Him and Juliet fell in love the same night, later they decided to get married. The next day they married, and Romeo went home to get ready to celebrate. On his way home Mercutio and Tybalt got into a fight causing Mercutio to die. Romeo killed Tybalt, then got banished. Juliet

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a book of fate and how everyone in the world affects the happenings of this world. The author of this extraordinary book is William Shakespeare. Although Romeo and Juliet killed themselves, there were many people responsible for their deaths. It is arguable that the parents of the two lovers, Friar Laurence, and Romeo and Juliet themselves were the most responsible, some could say that the other main characters like Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt, the Nurse, and Paris were involved as well. There were many people responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, although they took their own lives, they were not all to blame.

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.

For me, Romeo and Juliet´s death has not just one person to blame. There are some people that could have done things differently to avoid the deaths, but that does not necessarily mean these people has the blame for it. Because most of these people were not aware of the damage they were causing with their actions. So if your action cost two people their life, not on purpose, does it really mean you are the one to blame?

They tell eachother everything. Most importantly, they can trust one another. Juliet turns to the Nurse for every problem she has. She depends on the Nurse to be there for her, especially in times of struggles and her love life. Throughout her love story with Romeo, the Nurse plays a very active role in Juliet’s life. We see the Nurse helping her to sneak away with Romeo but on the other side, we see the Nurse telling Juliet to obey her family orders, which relates back to the conflict between a parent figure and child.

Secondly, the Nurse is also responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s death. When Juliet sends the Nurse to Romeo regarding the wedding date and place, she agrees to her and lets them get married. She does not even tell Juliet’s parents about what was happening knowing that Romeo was a Montague, the enemy of the Capulets. If the Nurse was more responsible and had informed Juliet’s parents, they would have stopped Juliet from making the decision of marrying Romeo in such haste. Later in the play, when Juliet is forced to marry Paris by her parents and she has no other support, even the Nurse abandons Juliet and tells her to marry Paris instead of Romeo. This is evident when the Nurse says, “I think it is best you married with the County./ O, he’s a lovely gentleman!/ Romeo is a dishclout to him.”(Shakespeare III.v.119-221). This quote demonstrates that the Nurse does not respect Juliet’s love and tells her to get over it and marry Paris, whom Juliet did not love. The absence of Nurse’s support almost causes her to commit suicide. This leads to Juliet taking Friar’s advice which failed and it leads to Romeo and Juliet’s death. If the Nurse had shown some support for Juliet when she was going through a hard time, maybe they could have thought of a better solution to the problem. Therefore, the Nurse is responsible Romeo and Juliet’s death because of her betraying Juliet and also because of her irresponsibility.

This affects the story because she made sure that Romeo would actually still like to marry Juliet in the next day, basically the Nurse helps them arrange the wedding ceremony without either families knowing a thing. In addition to how that affects, another thing that changes the ending is that the Nurse technically betrayed Juliet in a way. After Romeo had slew Tybalt, Romeo was banished. The Nurse knew and arrived in Juliet's room, needing to tell her the news. Juliet was eager to know but the Nurse was procrastinating.

Is “Their parents’ strife” the reason why Romeo and Juliet’s love prove to be fatal? The world renowned play “Romeo and Juliet”, written by William Shakespeare in the 1590s, contains many different themes and events that can be linked to one another. Romeo and Juliet’s parents’ strife is not the only cause of their fatal love, but one of the many. Other causes include the decision made by Friar Lawrence, in which the path he decide to lead the event to; the boldness actions of Romeo and Juliet, in which grief and anger had taken over their actions at times and made the wrong decisions.

Romeo and Juliet are dead. There is no bringing them back. We can, however, examine all of the facts and decide who is to blame. This way, we can hopefully prevent something like this from ever happening, again. In this essay, it will be argued that Friar Laurence, Lord Capulet, and Tybal are the people responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.

Throughout the story of Romeo and Juliet, several characters die for different reasons. The first death occurred when Tybalt, a Capulet, stabbed Mercutio, a Montague, from under Romeo’s arm. In revenge for Mercutio’s death, Romeo killed Tybalt (Act 3, Scene 1). Because of this action, Romeo was banished from the city and Lady Montague died from a heart attack once she heard of this news. Paris was also killed by Romeo in a duel. Moreover, convinced that Juliet was truly dead, Romeo drank a poison and died. A little later when Juliet awoke from the potion, she discovered Romeo dead. In result, she killed herself with his dagger (Act 5, Scene 3). At the end of the story, there were a total of six deaths. Each death occurred as a result of something. If there wasn’t a feud from the beginning, so many deaths could have been prevented from occurring.

The reason as to why people say the nurse is at fault is because, she let them see each other, she delivered messages for them, and she turned her back on Juliet. The nurse was one of the two, the other being Friar Laurence that knew of Romeo and Juliet’s wedding. The nurse let them get married and let the see each other. The nurse communicates with Romeo for Juliet and tells Juliet where to go to marry Romeo. When things started to get complicated with Juliet being told she was marrying Paris the nurse turned her back on Juliet.

In the end, the parents of Romeo and Juliet are to blame for the deaths of their own children. Their feud, forcing of Juliet to wed Paris, and haste to bring this about caused Romeo and Juliet to perish. It was as if the parents of both families unwittingly left a cigar burning as they went out fishing and came back to a heaping pile of ashes that once was what they called “daughter” and

It was a shock to Juliet that she didn’t support as before. The nurse played as an important role to her, however it wasn’t how Juliet was expected it was going to happen. Juliet was left on her own to make some very important decisions at the age of 15. I believe that if the Nurse had been around to help Juliet things may have turned out differently. Strangely, she advised Juliet to forget about Romeo and marry Paris, betraying Juliet’s trust by advocating a false marriage: “I think it best you married with the County. O, he’s a lovely gentleman. Romeo’s a dish clout to him”(3.5.218). Juliet can’t believe that the Nurse offers such a course of action after the Nurse praised Romeo and helped bring the couple together. She could not have gone to Lady Capulet or Lord Capulet, because they would not have understood.