Examples Of Who Is To Blame In Romeo And Juliet

Who is to Blame?
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself. Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare. The play is a tragedy, you will never be able to predict what will happen. Romeo and Juliet loved each other unconditionally. No matter what happens they want to be together and stay together. Sometimes though, the events that take place do not always make sense. Romeo and Juliet are not to blame for the events that take place in this play. What is to blame though, is the families violence, their fate, and their brains. We all know that Romeo and Juliet’s families did not get along. This caused a lot of violence, which is one of the reasons for the tragedies. The first event that takes place in the play is a fight the servants from both families start. They know it is not their feud to fight; however, they were still very violent. The Montague’s servants had started the fight. They bit their thumbs at each other and this fight is what caused the Prince to ban their fighting in the street. If there were
anymore fights, they were to be put to death. Within the play there were many fights. One of the most important ones was when Romeo killed Tybalt. This line was said by Benvolio. “Tybalt here slain, whom Romeo’s hand did slay.” (III.I.148) Benvolio was trying to explain how and why Romeo had killed Tybalt. Romeo’s one violent second cause a lot of problems in this story. After this event, he was banned. Juliet was very upset about this and not about Tybalt’s death. Lord and Lady Capulet believed she was upset about Tybalt’s death and then forced her into the marriage of Paris. Towards the end of the book, Juliet is lying in the Capulet tomb. Paris and Romeo run into each other, both grieving over a girl who they believe is dead. As Paris sees Romeo he says, “Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague! Can vengeance be pursued further than death? Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee. Obey and go with me, for thou must die.” (V.III.54-57) Paris did not think Romeo was there to see Juliet rather than mess with the family tomb. Romeo was not going to allow anyone to get in his way of seeing Juliet so he killed Paris. This violence caused guards to realize what was happening and also put Romeo in a worse state than he already was. The violence in this play caused many tragedies. We all know most teenagers do not make very good decisions. People just believe that teens do not care about the outcome; moreover, our brains are actually not fully developed yet. Romeo and Juliet often make very quick decisions. They marry the day after they met. They do not even know eachother, but all they want is to be together. They know that their families have hatred against each other and may not be able to get over the feud factor. Also, when Juliet was “dead”, Romeo was very quick to drink the poison. This could be caused by teenagers frontal lobe not quite being developed yet. This piece of evidence is from the article Teenage Brains, “When this development proceeds normally, we get better at balancing impulse, desire, goals, self-interest, rules, ethics, and even altruism, generating behavior that is more complex and, sometimes at least, more sensible.” (Dobbs) This shows that if they had been older and their frontal lobes had been developed more thoroughly, than they might not have made some of the decisions that they had. All and all, Romeo and Juliet came quickly to their decisions and did not always make the right decision either. Some people may say that Romeo was old enough to have a fully developed brain; however, most brains are not fully developed until their mid twenties. Romeo was in his younger twenties. This can explain why his brain was not developed and why his choices were not up to par. Lastly, fate caused Romeo and Juliet to die. Fate the development of events beyond a person's control. This seems to take place multiple times within the play. No matter what was happening during the play, everything went against Romeo. He was already heartbroken and once he found someone who might be able to change that, he found out she was a Capulet. He never got exactly what he wanted. From the Critical Essay on Romeo and Juliet, “The cruel world is too terrible a place for a love as tender as that of Romeo and Juliet.” (Kerschen) This is showing that Romeo and Juliet loved each other so much and so sweetly that the world could not handle is. While reading the play, everyone was upset that Friar John did not get the letter delivered to Romeo in Mantua. As we know he was quarantined in another village, we were angry at him for somehow finding a way. This though, was out of his control. He did not know the village had a sickness that would need to be quarantined. From the same Critical Essay, “if the plot is only part of a larger or ongoing story, then the characters are more likely to seem at the mercy of forces beyond their control.” (Kerschen) This shows that all these events caused fate to take control. For example, Friar Lawrence did not get to the Capulet tomb in time to stop Romeo from drinking the poison. This is caused by fate, sadly we all wish the story would have ended in a happy ending. This proves that Romeo and Juliet are not to blame for the events in the play.
In fact, it was actually the families violence, fate, and that their brains are not fully developed. Romeo happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Meaning that fate always worked against them. The families had an ongoing feud that they did not even know how it started. This caused a lot of violence which caused many deaths and even the banishing of Romeo. They both however, did not have pure decision making skills. This was because of their brains not having the full skills that they needed. They worked hard to try to be together but it never worked out. Romeo and Juliet knew they were enemies, so we all thought they should not have married. Right? They believed it did not matter if it came to love. They wished to be happy. They were buried together and their families feud was ended. That’s a good enough happy ending for
Shakespeare.