At the party Romeo and Juliet talk together and start to like each other, Romeo has seemingly forgotten about Rosaline completely, do we have a false impression of Romeo? And if so the Montague's? Romeo changed very quickly from saying he loved Rosaline to completely forgetting her this suggests that things change very fast in the play and that it isn’t a good idea to make assumptions on things, just as Tybalt did.
Romeo and Juliet have fallen in love, being the children of each household it’s as if the houses have fallen in love, this is the start of a chain of events leading to the tragedy. Friar Lawrence Comes into the play and agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet. We think the Friar is a good person because he is marrying them in the hope that it will stop the two houses from fighting and all can live in peace, so the friar is doing a good deed. However this could be portrayed as doing a bad thing because this could spark up more fights between the houses. The friar could be blamed for the tragedy because he is the one who joined Romeo and Juliet, if they were never joined then eventually Romeo may have forgotten about Juliet in just the same way he forgot about Rosaline.
In the centre of town after Romeo and Juliet have been married Tybalt meets Romeo and challenges him, Romeo refuses to fight so Mercutio takes his place and fight Tybalt. Our opinion of Romeo has changed throughout the course of the play, we don’t like Romeo now because he has not lived up to his duty and therefore he has killed his friend, Romeo could be to blame for Mercutio's death on the other hand it could be the friars fault because he married Romeo and Juliet and that’s why Romeo wouldn’t fight Tybalt, personally I think it’s a combination of the two. We don’t like Romeo because I don’t think he should of married Juliet and especially so quick he should of thought it through and moved on to someone else. Tybalt is partly to blame for the death of Mercutio because he was the one who challenged Romeo in the first place because of Romeo being at the party. Romeo didn’t do anything wrong at the party so I think that Tybalt was being childish. Tybalt got what I think he deserved by Romeo killing him. Romeo killing him resulted in Rome being banished. Rome was a fool to do this and should of let the law take its course to let the law kill Tybalt and avenge Mercutio’s death.
Romeo has been stupid ever since he met Juliet. Romeo could be responsible for the tragedy of his own death and Juliet’s death because he shouldn’t of gone to the party right at the beginning, he only made it worse by killing Tybalt. The tragedy could have been Tybalt's fault because he was the one being childish at he party and triggered a chain of events leading to Romeos banishment.
When the Capulet's hear of Tybalt's death they are furious and want Romeo dead though the prince demands that Romeo should be banished, so he is. Juliet now thinks that Romeo is good on the outside but on the inside he is horrible. We have sympathies for Juliet because she has just married Romeo who she didn’t really know that well and now she might be regretting it because of his behaviour. Our sympathies are beginning to shift over to that Capulet’s now as the story is progressing. More sympathy for Juliet as she is distraught and is very upset about Romeos banishment, she seeks nurse for comfort.
When Romeo is told he is banished by the friar Romeo is very upset as well, Sympathies may be turning back to Romeo as he now knows what a terrible mistake he as made. The friar rebukes Romeo threatening to kill himself. I now think that Romeo has become very weak after having met Juliet. My opinion of the friar is that he is a man with good intentions but things just don’t work out as he had planned. I think this because almost as soon as Romeo and Juliet were married a person from each house was killed so the marriage obviously has not worked.
Romeo learns that Juliet is sad and this upsets him more, to cheer him up they send him to Juliet and they spend the night together the nurse tries to help all she can to make the couple happy. Juliet learns the next day that she has to marry Paris, this upsets Juliet more but her parents believe that he is just mourning over Tybalt to try and cheer her up they say that they will try and poison Romeo in Mantua this of course upsets Juliet further. I have great feeling for Juliet because she cannot do tell her parents that she is already married to Romeo because her parents are very cross with Romeo as it is for killing Tybalt, I think that Juliet’s parents are partly to blame for the tragedy because everything would have got sorted out if they hadn’t said Juliet had to marry Paris.
Because of Juliet learning that she has to marry Paris she seeks the friar for help, the Friar gives Juliet a potion that will put her in a deep sleep until the fuss has dies down about the wedding and Tybalt being killed. Can we trust friar Lawrence at this stage? We don’t know what potion he is really giving her. Juliet puts faith in the friar and drinks the potion. Our sympathies fall go to the Capulet’s again because they think that Juliet is dead now as well so they think they have had two deaths in a very short amount of time. The friar sends a letter to Romeo explaining what the plan is.
The letter does not reach Romeo and he goes to the Capulet death chamber to mourn over Juliet he finds Paris there. Paris challenges Romeo, We have sympathy for Paris because he has gone to mourn over Juliet and he believes that he is not married but then Romeo arrives and disturbs his thoughts. Romeo kills Paris. I don’t like Romeo anymore because he has become something he didn’t used to be. Romeo mourns over Juliet and drinks poison he got to join Juliet in death. Our sympathies go to the friar as he finds Paris and Romeo dead by Juliet, the friar must feel very guilty as Juliet starts to wake up our sympathies go to Juliet again as she finds Her lover dead. The friar leaves and desperately tries to make Juliet go with him but Juliet joins Romeo in death and stabs herself.
In the end I believe that it wasn’t any one person in the story that was responsible for the tragedy I believe that everyone played a part in killing Rome and Juliet.