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Explain Who Is The Main Person To Blame In Romeo And Juliet
Romeo And Juliet Essay
In the story Romeo and Juliet there can be many people to blame such as Benvolio, Friar Laurence, Prince, Juliet, but I think the main person to blame would have to be Romeo. If Romeo was more mature and thought he would not have killed himself. The person to blame is Romeo because he let his emotions control his decisions which led to bad choices.
Romeo wasn’t a bad person in the slightest, he was just very passionate about what he did and that made him vulnerable to stress. But all the deaths that Romeo caused were in good intentions, except one. That death was the death of Tybalt, a killing driven by revenge and fury. In the story he was the cause of the death for Paris, Mercutio, Tybalt, Juliet, and most of

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