Wherefore art thou Romeo?” (Shakespeare, 404). Juliet is asking Romeo why he has to be Romeo, a Montague because if he wasn’t they could make their marriage public. The marriage is happening in a few hours, the start of the tragedy saga. Friar Lawrence marries Romeo and Juliet, they are now wedded but, in secrecy if anyone else found out they would both be in big trouble. “ Will you pluck your sword out of this pilcher by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it about.” (Shakespeare, 427). Tybalt approaches Mercutio and Benvolio in the street and asks where Romeo is Mercutio doesn’t give a direct answer, then Romeo walks up and Tybalt challenges Romeo because he kissed Juliet at the ball. Then in the quote above Mercutio sticks up for Romeo and challenges Tybalt “ Good King of Cats” (Shakespeare, 427), to a sword fight. Tybalt accepts, then with a quick strike while Romeo was holding Mercutio back Tybalt punctures him, “ I am hurt” (Shakespeare, 428). Then Tybalt challenges Romeo, Romeo strikes him down killing Juliet’s cousin. This is Romeo’s next mistake, allowing Mercutio to be killed then, killing Tybalt which ultimately led to his …show more content…
Romeo departing Mantua for Verona was a dumb idea because he never would have known if Juliet was alive or dead which would’ve stopped both of their deaths. So Romeo departs for Verona, with poison from the apothecary. He reaches Verona and discovers Juliet in casket and decides to take her ring and give her his goodbye hugs and pay his respects. Once Romeo saw that she was dead he took the poison, in the midst of this Paris thinks Romeo is trying to steal items from her. So, he tries to make a citizens and gets killed by Romeo. Next, Romeo puts Paris in the casket with Juliet than Romeo dies and falls into the casket. Romeo’s dumb actions of killing Paris then, killing himself lead to Juliet killing herself, which then lead to his mom dying. If Romeo would have simply just gotten over the fact that this girl that he knew for one day was dead everyone would have lived including Juliet.
If there were another person I would blame for the tragedy it would be Friar Lawrence, because everything he did was for self gain, also if he would have not wedded Romeo and Juliet none of this would have happened. When Romeo asked to wed him and Juliet, he should have rejected Romeo because they are just kids, and because he was just in love with Rosaline. Friar should have known then that they were not yet ready to be married. After everything was all said and