William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Who is to blame? In William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, there
is much controversy as to who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and
Juliet. In this tragedy, the two family's on going feud drives Romeo
to kill one of Juliet's relatives and thus he finds himself banned
from Verona. They then construct a plan to meet again, but when the
plan goes wrong, the two star crossed lovers take their own lives. The
question now is where to lay the blame of their deaths. The deaths can
be blamed on the parents, fate, or Romeo and Juliet. The parents of
Juliet can easily be seen as the possible cause's for their ...view middle of the document...
This gives Juliet the thought
that Romeo will be killed if her parents have anything to do with it
and that she will have to live without him. "Come, cords, come, Nurse,
I'll to my wedding bed, and death, not Romeo take my maidenhead"
explains that Juliet would rather die a virgin rather than live
without Romeo. The parents have proven many times how they could be
the cause of the lovers deaths.
The friar can also be blamed for the deaths. For one, he is the person
that agrees to marry the lovers "in one respect I'll thy assistant be,
for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households rancor to
pure love". Though the friar may mean well, he can ultimately be
traced back to their deaths. If he had not married them, then maybe
Romeo and Juliet would have forgotten about each other, or ran away
together or solved there problems. The friar also could be blamed
because he is the one that thought of the plan. He gives another
complication to the plot, while he is still trying to do good. His
plan, although it could work, is proberly not plausible. This is seen
by all the twists and turns that have to take place in order for it to
work. "Hold, daughter. I do spy… and in this borrowed lightness of
shrunken death, they shout continue two and forty hours and then awake
from a pleasant sleep…in the mean time, against thou shalt awake shall
Romeo by my letters no are drift and hither shall he come". This tells
of the Friars plan and shows how outrageous he truly is.
Fate, above all destroyed Romeo and Juliet. Some people think that
there is know way to control fate or change it. Fate was bad luck for
Romeo as Fr.Lawerence sent a letter to Romeo telling him of the plan
and how it would work. It explains that Juliet will not really be dead
but will be a kind of deep coma. Romeo did not receive this letter so
Romeo thinks that Juliet is actually dead. He...
