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Who Chose To Blame For The Death Of Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet is a tragic Shakespearean story of a boy and a girl who fall undoubtedly in love with each other, but there’s a twist. His and her family, the Montagues and Capulets, are both sworn enemies. Their love for each other becomes incredibly strong at first sight. However it unfortunately leads to their demise. At the end of this story comes a question: “Was there anyone else to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet?” Many people were involved in Romeo and Juliet’s life, but only a select few played a huge role in their love and death together. The parents of the two of them, despite their hatred for each other, didn’t even have much to do with their love and death. The Parent’s only factor in this tragic decline was that they …show more content…

We see the nurses friendship with Juliet when she says, “Romeo! no, not he; though his / face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels / all men's; and for a hand, and a foot, and a body, / though they be not to be talked on, yet they are / past compare: he is not the flower of courtesy / but, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb” (2.5.1416-1421). As you can see the Nurse acts almost as though Juliet would act. Another instance where the Nurse shows her friendship she has with Juliet is when she became Juliet’s co-conspirator in marrying Romeo. Throughout the play the nurse is constantly hiding Romeo and Juliet’s love for one another. Besides the fact that she was keeping secrets for Juliet, she had also delivered bad news to her, like when she told her the news of Tybalt's death: “The Nurse also gives Juliet the news that Romeo killed Tybalt and was exiled by the Prince, throwing Juliet's emotions further into a whirl” (Angie Creel, “Romeo and Juliet: The Nurse”). The emotional toll one 14 year old girl would be feeling with her beloved cousin dead and her one true love exiled, would be catastrophic and merely devastating. She not only gained a part in her life, but also in her death

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