Romeo And Juliet Blame
“She started it!”
“Oh, please. If you hadn’t made her angry, she never would have said that.”
“Come on! She knows how annoying that is! She must’ve done it just to get me to respond.”
Walking down the hallway of any high school, skilled teenage mouths can be heard performing the practiced art of pointing fingers. Most of the time, the topic is harmless squabbles, but in the case of Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, it can be argued that a little blame may be in need of casting. By the end of the play, both of the main characters, Romeo and Juliet, are dead by their own hands, and Romeo has killed two people. The love between Juliet and Romeo is forbidden by their families, who are mortal enemies. While there are multiple …show more content…
After her husband of a day is exiled from the city, she gets thrown into a blind panic. She completely loses all common sense and runs to Friar to lament about her husband killing her cousin and being kicked out of Verona. She cries “Be not so long to speak, I long to die (IV, I, 66).” This causes Friar to bring out his plan to make Juliet seem dead, so that doesn’t stab herself right there in his cell. However, this plan ends disastrously, and with Juliet stabbing herself anyway. She also agrees to marry Romeo, even after claiming “I have no joy in this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden (II, II, 117-118).” when talking about marrying him. She clearly has a feeling that this marriage is rushing through steps, yet still goes along with Romeo’s plan to be wed the next morning. If she had listened to herself and waited, just like Friar Laurence, she could have avoided needless heartbreak and her own death. *ask sparks about this one eeeeep* Directly after meeting Romeo, Juliet asks Nurse who he is, and finds out he is a Montague, her sworn enemy. Juliet bemoans that “Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy (I, V, 138-139).” She knows that her love with Romeo is forbidden, that her family would never allow it. She neglects to care about this fact and goes along with loving him, and even marries him. If Juliet had just listened to herself and not been with Romeo, nothing from the play would have been the
“Oh, please. If you hadn’t made her angry, she never would have said that.”
“Come on! She knows how annoying that is! She must’ve done it just to get me to respond.”
Walking down the hallway of any high school, skilled teenage mouths can be heard performing the practiced art of pointing fingers. Most of the time, the topic is harmless squabbles, but in the case of Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, it can be argued that a little blame may be in need of casting. By the end of the play, both of the main characters, Romeo and Juliet, are dead by their own hands, and Romeo has killed two people. The love between Juliet and Romeo is forbidden by their families, who are mortal enemies. While there are multiple …show more content…
After her husband of a day is exiled from the city, she gets thrown into a blind panic. She completely loses all common sense and runs to Friar to lament about her husband killing her cousin and being kicked out of Verona. She cries “Be not so long to speak, I long to die (IV, I, 66).” This causes Friar to bring out his plan to make Juliet seem dead, so that doesn’t stab herself right there in his cell. However, this plan ends disastrously, and with Juliet stabbing herself anyway. She also agrees to marry Romeo, even after claiming “I have no joy in this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden (II, II, 117-118).” when talking about marrying him. She clearly has a feeling that this marriage is rushing through steps, yet still goes along with Romeo’s plan to be wed the next morning. If she had listened to herself and waited, just like Friar Laurence, she could have avoided needless heartbreak and her own death. *ask sparks about this one eeeeep* Directly after meeting Romeo, Juliet asks Nurse who he is, and finds out he is a Montague, her sworn enemy. Juliet bemoans that “Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy (I, V, 138-139).” She knows that her love with Romeo is forbidden, that her family would never allow it. She neglects to care about this fact and goes along with loving him, and even marries him. If Juliet had just listened to herself and not been with Romeo, nothing from the play would have been the