Who Is To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death
In Romeo and Juliet, the tragic love story, people may wonder ‘who's to blame?’ Was it the nurse? Friar Lawrence? Lord and lady Montague? Lord and Lady Capulet? Well maybe even Romeo and Juliet themselves. No one really knows the answer to that question. It's really a matter opinion because they all had some kind of fault to the death of Romeo and Juliet. In my opinion, I blame Juliet.
In act 1 scene 5 Juliet lets Romeo kiss her, which starts every bad thing yet to happen. They were in the middle of the dance floor talking and they were making references to Romeo's lips and Juliet went along with it. When Romeo kissed her the first time she said he kisses by the book, which was a compliment saying he kisses very good. Because of her letting him kiss her, she automatically disobeys her parents because at the feast she was to only have had interest in Paris and get to know him. Juliet then let's Romeo kiss her once more before she leaves instead of cutting him off, which shows interest and makes him want more. …show more content…
In act 2 scene 2 Romeo is at the bottom of Juliet's balcony to her room and he's listening her her thoughts that she's speaking out loud.
After listening for a minute or two he decides to speak, which she's startled by. When she realizes it's Romeo she wants him to climb up to her balcony but it's too high. Romeo then climbs up a tree to her balcony and says that no walls or any relatives of hers will keep his love away from her. By Juliet letting/asking Romeo to climb up to her balcony she makes things worse. She also then basically makes out with him and she has only known him for a few hours. Then the one thing to make everything worse, Romeo proposes and she says
yes.
In act 3 scene 5 it is morning time and Romeo is in Juliet's bed naked with her which obviously indicates that they slept together. Juliet was crying the night before because Romeo was banished and they both thought that death was more fair than banishment to Romeo. Juliet was not able to be consoled because she was too hurt about this and she even said that she wanted to die a virgin because Romeo can not be with her. The nurse then gets really fed up with her and goes to get Romeo to bring to her. A common argument against this position is that Romeo is the one that wanted to sleep with her and it wasn't Juliet's fault, but she's the one who was also crying to nurse about how she so badly wanted to be with Romeo and sleep with him. So in this case both Romeo and Juliet were at fault in this scene.
In act 4 scene 1 Juliet goes to Friar Lawrence's cell and cries to him saying she would rather die than marry Paris because she's already married to Romeo and loves him, not Paris. Friar Lawrence then makes a plan to make Juliet's parents and all of Verona think she's dead so she can run away with Romeo and she agrees to do it. She was actually willing to make her parents suffer with the lose of their only child, when she's actually not dead, just to stay with Romeo.
In act 5 scene 3 Romeo discovers Juliet’s “dead”. He is torn and starts to cry saying how he wants to die. Then he takes out poison and and drinks it which makes him die right beside Juliet. Once Juliet finally wakes up from her sleep she discovers what Romeo has done and starts to cry. She then tries to kill herself by kissing Romeo but there was not enough poison on his lips to kill her so then she takes his “happy dagger” and stabs herself with it to kill herself. Because of her agreeing to make everyone think she's dead she even made Romeo think that she was. This all made him kill himself and that was all caused because of Juliet. Then once she finally woke up and realized that he was dead she tried to kill herself by kissing his lips to poison herself as well, but that does not work so she stabs herself to make herself die which is the cause of her death.
In act 3 scene 2 Juliet finds out about Tybalt's death, she even finds out who killed him. Romeo did. She at first thought that both Tybalt and Romeo were dead, but the nurse corrected her. She was crying a lot about Tybalt's death and the nurse was really mad at Romeo for killing Tybalt. Once the nurse told Juliet about Romeo killing Tybalt the nurse says something bad about Romeo and Juliet says that she wishes the nurse gets blisters on her tongue for speaking bad about Romeo. Juliet was defending Romeo because he was her husband and she then didn't care about the fact that Romeo killed her own cousin. Juliet was so mad at the nurse for saying something bad about her husband even though what she said was true.
In conclusion I would say they all had something to do with the death of Romeo and Juliet. Now, like I've said before, no one really knows who's at fault here because no one actually murdered them and we can not pin it on someone exactly. Yet I still do blame Juliet for both hers and Romeo’s death. Then again, who's to to blame?
In act 1 scene 5 Juliet lets Romeo kiss her, which starts every bad thing yet to happen. They were in the middle of the dance floor talking and they were making references to Romeo's lips and Juliet went along with it. When Romeo kissed her the first time she said he kisses by the book, which was a compliment saying he kisses very good. Because of her letting him kiss her, she automatically disobeys her parents because at the feast she was to only have had interest in Paris and get to know him. Juliet then let's Romeo kiss her once more before she leaves instead of cutting him off, which shows interest and makes him want more. …show more content…
In act 2 scene 2 Romeo is at the bottom of Juliet's balcony to her room and he's listening her her thoughts that she's speaking out loud.
After listening for a minute or two he decides to speak, which she's startled by. When she realizes it's Romeo she wants him to climb up to her balcony but it's too high. Romeo then climbs up a tree to her balcony and says that no walls or any relatives of hers will keep his love away from her. By Juliet letting/asking Romeo to climb up to her balcony she makes things worse. She also then basically makes out with him and she has only known him for a few hours. Then the one thing to make everything worse, Romeo proposes and she says
yes.
In act 3 scene 5 it is morning time and Romeo is in Juliet's bed naked with her which obviously indicates that they slept together. Juliet was crying the night before because Romeo was banished and they both thought that death was more fair than banishment to Romeo. Juliet was not able to be consoled because she was too hurt about this and she even said that she wanted to die a virgin because Romeo can not be with her. The nurse then gets really fed up with her and goes to get Romeo to bring to her. A common argument against this position is that Romeo is the one that wanted to sleep with her and it wasn't Juliet's fault, but she's the one who was also crying to nurse about how she so badly wanted to be with Romeo and sleep with him. So in this case both Romeo and Juliet were at fault in this scene.
In act 4 scene 1 Juliet goes to Friar Lawrence's cell and cries to him saying she would rather die than marry Paris because she's already married to Romeo and loves him, not Paris. Friar Lawrence then makes a plan to make Juliet's parents and all of Verona think she's dead so she can run away with Romeo and she agrees to do it. She was actually willing to make her parents suffer with the lose of their only child, when she's actually not dead, just to stay with Romeo.
In act 5 scene 3 Romeo discovers Juliet’s “dead”. He is torn and starts to cry saying how he wants to die. Then he takes out poison and and drinks it which makes him die right beside Juliet. Once Juliet finally wakes up from her sleep she discovers what Romeo has done and starts to cry. She then tries to kill herself by kissing Romeo but there was not enough poison on his lips to kill her so then she takes his “happy dagger” and stabs herself with it to kill herself. Because of her agreeing to make everyone think she's dead she even made Romeo think that she was. This all made him kill himself and that was all caused because of Juliet. Then once she finally woke up and realized that he was dead she tried to kill herself by kissing his lips to poison herself as well, but that does not work so she stabs herself to make herself die which is the cause of her death.
In act 3 scene 2 Juliet finds out about Tybalt's death, she even finds out who killed him. Romeo did. She at first thought that both Tybalt and Romeo were dead, but the nurse corrected her. She was crying a lot about Tybalt's death and the nurse was really mad at Romeo for killing Tybalt. Once the nurse told Juliet about Romeo killing Tybalt the nurse says something bad about Romeo and Juliet says that she wishes the nurse gets blisters on her tongue for speaking bad about Romeo. Juliet was defending Romeo because he was her husband and she then didn't care about the fact that Romeo killed her own cousin. Juliet was so mad at the nurse for saying something bad about her husband even though what she said was true.
In conclusion I would say they all had something to do with the death of Romeo and Juliet. Now, like I've said before, no one really knows who's at fault here because no one actually murdered them and we can not pin it on someone exactly. Yet I still do blame Juliet for both hers and Romeo’s death. Then again, who's to to blame?