Romeo and Juliet - who is to blame for their tragic deaths.

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Vishi B        Romeo and Juliet        English Lit. Coursework11E Romeo and Juliet was a play written some four hundred years ago by a famous writer named William Shakespeare. This tragic story is eccentric, to the other plays that Shakespeare had created. In the following essay I shall be investigating who is most to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s tragic deaths. I will be looking for evidence to blame someone for these tragic deaths, however I shall be looking at all of the main characters doings in this play that may have affected the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.          I think Romeo and Juliet themselves were partly to blame for their deaths. They are young and absurd. They are so deeply in love that they, in some ways, are taken over by love which leads to their deaths. It starts controlling their actions and that is why they rushed into marriage without taking anyone or anything else into consideration.         This is Juliet’s first relationship, so she has had no other experiences with love. She is therefore not familiar with the strong and powerful feeling. She must be quite overcome by this sudden rush of desire for another human being.          Romeo has fallen in love many times before. It is almost like a hobby for him, he has only recently ended his obsession with Lady Rosaline. Friar Lawrence thinks Romeo hasn’t had a long enough gap between his two lovers, “What a change is here!” He warns them they could be moving too quickly, “Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast.” “These violent delights have violent ends”.         I think their marriage was a quick rash decision, which passed them by without much thought going into it. Juliet does feel her relationship is going too fast at times. “It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden. Too like the lightning.” Although ironically, she is the one who suggests marriage in the first place. Maybe it was partly to test whether Romeo was himself dedicated to their new found relationship or whether he was just having some fun and not caring about Juliet’s feelings. Maybe if they hadn’t rushed into marriage, things might have worked out. That will never be known.         Once Romeo had been exiled from Verona, they couldn’t live without each other so death seemed like the only option, so the audience thinks.         Capulet had arranged
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Juliet’s marriage to Paris and now she had loved and lost Romeo, she was prepared to die rather than marry again. If Friar Lawrence had not been able help her, she will have to kill herself. When Romeo hears of Juliet’s so called death, he states “I defy you, stars” and talks of killing himself, this also meant that he was defying fate. Fate also was a huge asset towards the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. He goes and buys a bottle of poison from the apothecary and drinks it next to Juliet’s tomb, where he thought that Juliet ...

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