"Some shall be pardoned and some shall be punished" - Whom do you think is to blame for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet?

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“Some shall be pardoned and some shall be punished”

Whom do you think is to blame for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet?

   Who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two – star crossed lovers whose love cannot apart them from their two families. There are many people to blame for the tragic deaths. Friar Lawrence and the Nurse are just some of these people.

    The main theme of the play is fate and hatred. The attitude of hatred from the two families is responsible for the deaths because if the Montagues and the Capulets had not quarreled and they got along with each other, then Romeo and Juliet would not have married in secret.

“Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,

  By one that I’ll procure to come to thee,

  Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite,

  And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay.”

Tybalt from the Capulet keeps hatred alive between the two families. He started the fight between Mercutio and Romeo which results in Romeo getting banished.

“….I hate the word,

As I hate hell, all Montagues and thee.”

    Lord and Lady Capulet are to blame for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet because they should pay more attention to Juliet’s wishes when she refused to marry Paris. They even threaten to throw to throw her out onto the streets.

“And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets.”

Capulet shows no sympathy for Juliet: he rages at her when she refuses to marry Paris.

“But no more deep will I endart mine eye

Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”

 Whereas Lady Capulet is to blame as well because she puts her daughter in the care of the Nurse who raised Juliet as her ‘surrogate daughter’. Lady Capulet should talk and listen to Juliet instead of comparing herself to Juliet when she was her age.

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“Her in Verona, ladies of esteem,

 Are made already mothers. By my count,

 I was your mother upon these years.”

    The Nurse holds a great responsibility for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The Nurse is Juliet’s closest friend. She is not particularly a clever or sensitive woman. The Nurse, however, is very protective of Juliet. She warns Romeo to be true to Juliet.

“If ye should lead her in a fool’s paradise…

 Truly it were an ill thong to be,

 Offered to any gentle woman. And very weak dealing.”

The Nurses’ decision to encourage the relationship ...

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