Blame For Deaths In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

The lovers themselves are to blame for their deaths, because of the decisions they made and also the warnings that they have decided to ignore. “I fear , too early; for my mind misgives/ Some consequence yet hanging in the stars/ Shall bitterly begin his fearful date/ With this night’s revels and expire the term/ Of a despised life, closed in my breast,/ By some vile forfeit of untimely death./ But he that hath the steerage of my course/ Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen!” (Act I Scene IV, 106-113) Romeo receives a vision of his future fate in the form in a dream he “fear, too early; for [his] mind misgives/ Some consequence yet hanging in the stars...By some vile forfeit of untimely death” but right after he mentions how he may have an untimely death, he decides to “Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen!” (Act I, Scene IV, 106-113) and decides to let fate do what it wants with him. Later on, Mercutio is killed by Tybalt, and Romeo mentions how he is “fortune’s fool” (Act III, Scene I, Line 133) after he killed Tybalt in avenging Mercutio’s death, and is
“Yeah noise? then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger!/ This is thy sheath...There rust and let me die.” (Act V, Scene III, 174-175) Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead and Friar Lawrence with her, but he decides to abandon her and she decides to stab herself and claims,”There rust and let me die.” (Act V, Scene III, 175) “Romeo, Romeo, Romeo!/ Here’s [a] drink. I drink to thee.” (Act IV, Scene III, 59-60) Juliet decides to drinks a potion that will make her temporarily look dead; and by doing so, she has many doubts about the potion not working and her waking up too early to suffocate and be with the dead bodies and go insane. By pretending to kill herself ,because of her over-emotional acts towards Romeo, she kills Romeo and herself in the