What makes Romeo and Juliet a tragedy, and who or what is responsible for it?

        Romeo is ordered to banish from the city of Verona which I would say is the beginning of the coming up tragedy. Back in Verona Capulet decides of Juliet marrying Paris since Paris was very determined ‘That may be, must be, love, on Thursday next.’

There is some immense dramatic tension rising in Act 3 Scene 5, because Juliet is told about her marriage with Paris by her own mother and the loyal nurse ‘ Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn the gallant, young, and noble gentleman, The county Paris, at St Peter’s church, shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.’ Juliet who is already married to Romeo, for once keeps quite as she cannot tell her parents that she is already married to Romeo. Somehow she finds the courage to tell Lady Capulet that she doesn’t want to marry as yet. Just then Capulet enters and shouts at Juliet and starts cursing her.

Juliet has now got nobody to support her. The only way that she had now was to go to the Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence’s plan for Romeo and Juliet was that Juliet was to take a potion to make her appear dead on her wedding day she would then be taken to the Capulets’ vault meanwhile after receiving a letter from the Friar Romeo would return to Verona from Mantua and would be with Juliet when she wakes up. Juliet was very pleased to receive the potion from Friar Laurence. She says “Give me, give me! Oh tell me not of fear! Friar Laurence expected this plan to be successful and therefore he sent a messenger to Mantua where Romeo lived. One thing is always made clear throughout the play that Friar Laurence has always tried to help Romeo and Juliet with good intensions. Such as he helps Romeo and Juliet getting married because he thinks that by doing that he can get the two families together and again he wants the two young lovers to live happily and to achieve that he takes such a big risk. The potion makes Juliet asleep which also makes her appear as if she is dead. On the other hand the messenger is stopped from crossing the city’s borders. Just this one causality makes the Friar’s plan unsuccessful. After sometime when Romeo is told in Mantua that Juliet is dead he blames his fate.  Without wasting a single moment he leaves for Verona to see his beloved Juliet. Friar Laurence is unable to stop Romeo from entering the Capulet tomb. Romeo enters it and drinks a bottle filled with poison and lies dead besides Juliet. Juliet who is not dead as yet wakes up and sees her husband lying dead near her. Looking at that she too stabs her and lies dead. This is the final outcome of the tragedy in the play.

           In my opinion, the characters who I would blame the most are Lord and Lady Capulet and Lord and Lady Montague. It was all because of their bitterness between each other and the reason they also lost their only children. Other than that Romeo mustn’t have killed Tybalt, before killing him he must have thought what would happen to him. Altogether I would suggest that tragedy in Romeo and Juliet was there throughout the play. From the first scene of the play we can imagine what is going to happen by the end of the tragedy. I believe that the demises of Romeo and Juliet were only because of their misfortune.

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