Romeo and Juliet - Blame for the deaths.

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There are many people to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet: people who are close to them but, there are also other things which we can blame, other than people which I shall talk about later on.

The people to blame are people like the family and lady Capulet, Juliet's mother. She can be blamed for not having a good relationship with her daughter:

"Marry, that 'marry is the very then I come to talk of, tell me, daughter Juliet, how stands your disposition to be married?" and also:

"Well, think of marriage now, younger than you here in Verona, ladies of esteem are made already mothers … his love"

This shows that lady Capulet did not pay much attention to her 'beloved' daughter and if she had, I don’t think she (Juliet) would have had to marry county Paris and might not have resorted to killing herself.

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The two families which could be another reason for not only the death of Romeo and Juliet but also Tyblalt and Macucho all because of an "ancient grudge" which stopped Romeo and Juliet from getting married publicly which was one of the causes of their deaths, because if there was no grudge there would not have been any need for the sleeping potion that Friar Lurance gave to Juliet, which put her into a sleep that looks like she is dead:

"is it likely thou wait and ertake a thing like death to chide away this shame that cop'st with ...

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