The Responsibility Of Juliet In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we meet the characters and how their actions led to a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet met, end up falling in love, and – since both cannot dream of living without the other – take their lives. While the play ends in a tragic death for both characters, it was their own reckless decisions; though others might believe that it was destiny that played a large role in the lovers’ downfall. However, the majority of the text evidence points to them making their own choices leading to their demise.

“Romeo and Juliet” is one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies. With a few different decisions by the main characters, the story could be altered completely. Romeo and Juliet were a pair of “star crossed lovers” however, their love was forbidden to an ancient grudge between their families, the Capulets and the Montagues. Despite the grudge, the lovers decide to secretly marry. Their decision results in a large amount of turmoil when Romeo gets banished when he kills Juliet's cousin, Tybalt. In an attempt to get back together, their death ensues. Many debate about who is responsible for their death, I believe that they are responsible for their own deaths because they were too hasty, broke rules, and were irresponsible.

When most people hear the names Romeo and Juliet, they usually think about a romantic story between two lovers. Yes, it is a story about two lovers, but it is not romantic considering that almost all the characters die, including Romeo and Juliet. Actually, this play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is considered a tragedy because of all the deaths that take place throughout the story. These two star-crossed lovers are to blame for the deaths, but not in the way someone might suspect. Although some people believe that love or lust killed all the characters in Romeo and Juliet, the real fault comes from the brains of Romeo and Juliet, which were undeveloped and prone to making bad decisions and taking

Fate is to blame for their deaths because their parents and families have a fued that has gone on for years. In the Prologue (DBQ project, 2013), it talks about the feud by saying “Do with their death bury their parents’ strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love”. This says that the disagreements between the two families will cause their love to be. The prologue continues on by saying “Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,” meaning Romeo and Juliet could not decide nor can they change their fate because it is destined for them to fall into a fatal love because for the feud. In Document C (DBQ project, 2013), Friar Lawrence tells Romeo that “These violent delights have violent ends” meaning they may enjoy this love and it will make them happy for a short amount of time but later they will find out why it will end violent.

Romeo and juliet are definitley to blame for their deaths, or are they? The famous tradgedy, romeo and juliet by william shakespeare is a story about 2 youthful teens from different families who are deeply in love with eachother. Romeo is the main guy character in the story who is heartbroken because he is dumped. Romeo then goes and crashes the other families party and there he meets his soon to be wife. They are in love at first sight.

Romeo and Juliet both have many flaws in their characters, but that's what's makes they more realistic. Some of the flaws contributed to their ultimate deaths though. They were so dependent on each other that they couldn't live without each other. Not being independent made both of their personalities clash instead of matching. Being so alike in that department was not good because they couldn't help each other grow and become independent.

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.

In conclusion, the parents’ of Romeo and Juliet were at fault for the death of their children. The lovers wouldn’t have had to hide their love if they weren’t afraid of their parents’. Both Romeo and Juliet’s parents’ grudge and selfishness hurt their children. These 2 lovers had a future, but old grudges and pure hate ended it before it

In the play ‘‘Romeo and Juliet’’ there is a lot of scenarios that could be held responsible for the downfall of the two lovers Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet go through a lot to be together, even though it doesn’t work out in the end due to the risk of what Romeo and Juliet are trying to accomplish. There is a lot of people that could be to blame like the Capulets and how they throw Juliet’s feelings to the side or Friar Lawrence for being irresponsible or simply just Romeo and Juliet’s fault for letting themselves get blinded by love and not think straight.

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Romeo and Juliet are known to be doomed by fate but is that really the case? It seems that they are more doomed by their parents than by fate. The parents of Romeo and Juliet thought them that they couldn't be friends or have any type of relationship, because of the family feud. Also the parents aren't thinking about how their kids feel they are thinking about what they want for their family in the future, and that's what killed them. Romeo and Juliet needed to be able to make their own choices for themselves and not have their parents and the family feud hold them back. The deaths of Romeo and Juliet are solely the fault of their parents.

There are two paths that both individually could have been the cause of Romeo and Juliet's demise in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. One, being the uncontrollable road of fate, and the other being sheer human reaction. Though all of the gargantuan decisions made the facade of of destiny controlling their lives, It was mostly the lovers impulsive decisions that would lead to their inevitable end.The first of these decisions was after Romeo sorrowfully decided to crash the Capulet's party, he decided that he was going to waltz up to Juliet and kiss her upon her lips. Though a fantastic idea in is imaginative mind at the time, he did not realize that the furious Tybalt had recognized him before. This tragic mistake leads to Tybalt having even worse blood with Romeo than he did before. This would inevitably lead to Romeo's next impulsive decision that practically destroys his life. Romeo meets Tybalt on the blood-stained streets of

Romeo and Juliet know that they are taking things too quickly. Rushing their “love” is one of the largest contributing factors to their demise. Another reason that Juliet is partially at fault is because she states in act IV, scene iii, line 21, “What if this mixture do not work…?” (Shakespeare 456). This shows that Juliet knows that the plan might not work, but still follows through with it.

In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, two people from opposing families, Romeo and Juliet, fall in love and get married. Though this should have been a joyous occasion it was the complete antithesis of that. Their marriage throws gasoline on the already burning conflict of the two families and leads to a series of rash decisions. Eventually the two young lovers take their own lives ending the feud between their kinsman, however one must ask who’s fault is their unfortunate end. There is only one true answer as, despite having many influences from other characters, Romeo and Juliet are responsible for their own impulsive choices that lead to their ultimate demise.

In the end, in Romeo and Juliet, blame can be placed on several individuals and on different beliefs. However, it has been argued, that the main reasons for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths is fate, the choices of the Friar and irrationality. If Romeo and Juliet had chosen to be more mature and concentrating on creating a lasting relationship without sacrificing their lives or the lives of others, the ‘star crossed lovers’ would have had a successful conclusion. The Friar’s actions in response to Romeo and Juliet’s requests and his motive behind choosing to aid the two was made with irrational thoughts and puts the young couple in danger. Overall, it was fate that brought the couple together, the same way that it was fate that they were destined