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Who is to Blame in Romeo and Juliet? Essay

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‘From forth the loin of these two foes/ A pair of star crossed lovers take their life’ 1.2.chorus. Romeo and Juliet, a very famous play written by William Shakespeare, is filled with nearly every powerful emotion imaginable, love, lust, hate, desire, spite, joy, happiness, depression, adoration, anger, vengeance and so many more. The tragic deaths of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet were brought about by how the people around them and they themselves dealt with these emotions. Blame is defined in the dictionary as to feel or declare that someone/something is responsible for a fault or wrong. So who out of all of the culprits was really to blame? The Capulets, the Montagues and the feud boiling between them, Prince Escalus, Tybalt, …show more content…

He was the person who married them and respected their wishes about keeping it a secret and the person who both Romeo and Juliet seeked advice from after the Prince declared that Romeo be banished, and who laid out the plan to fake Juliets death so her and Romeo could be together again. But could he really be trusted? Though his intentions seem sincere on the surface they could have been tainted with ulterior motion. Marrying the two-lovebirds had the ulterior motion behind it to finally stop the family feud which is a thing that every one in Verona would be pleased about. But by him agreeing to not tell anyone of their matrimony is also agreeing not to tell people about the resolution to the feud gives the impression that he was planning something. Of course he could have been acting out of kindness and respect, giving the couple time to figure out how to share their news, but given how bad the situation between the families was at the time it does not seem likely. It seems as though he wanted to be solely responsible for bringing peace back to Verona, and he would have gladly told the families immediately if Romeo had not been banished. He still did not confide in anyone after this because then his plan would have failed. Instead he came up with a new plan that in turn ended the lives of both Romeo and Juliet. And in the end of all this, when Juliet was contemplating killing herself at the sight of Romeos

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