Who is to blame for the deaths in Shakespeare's play 'Romeo and Juliet'?

        Death is the main theme in 'Romeo and Juliet'. This is clear because of the way each death is presented and the build up to the death. Death is mentioned about six times. First to die is Mercutio slayed by Tybalt, Tybalt then slayed by Romeo, Romeo then committed suicide, then Juliet committed suicide, then Lady Montague and Paris. As love and hatered are both very big in 'Romeo and Juliet' and if two people fall in love from familys who have been enimie's for years on end the fact that they love each other wont go down well and people will throw a tantrum as we have seen by Tybalt. This all leads up to someone getting hurt or killed and in this case several killed.

        Mercutio died because of Tybalt. If Tybalt had not have arrived and started a fight with Mercutio then im sure that romeo would not have died Mercutio would have been alive still and Juliet would still be alive, Romeo would have killed Tybalt if he were to actually fight Romeo instead of kill his friend then run off. Tybalt may not have died if he had sat down and thought about what to do instead of going around killing everyone he comes across.

        Mercutio and Tybalt's deaths only occured because they were being loyal to someone or something. Mercutio died because he was being loyal to his friend Romeo, and because Tybalt insulted him. Tybalt died because he was being loyal to his family and family friends and especially Juliet. If he did'nt see Romeo with her he would'nt of had to so loyal to end up killing someone.

        Lady Montague died after Juliet along with Paris the man Juliet was supposed to marry. One of the reasons that paris died may have been giult of Juliets death, he may have thought that he drove her into it. Lady Montague's death could be that she was so depressed that she thought there was nothing worth living for so she may have committed suicide.

        The deaths of Romeo and Juliet were sad because as she was waking up from her sleeping potion he had just drunk a bottle of poison but he did not die instantly he saw she awoke then died. straight after she killed herself.

        Juliets death occured because of her father driving her into a unwanted marrage she wanted a way out and unfortunatly Romeo caught the wrong end of the stick and killed himself just before happiness was about to occur.  

        All in all it is Romeo's fault for the deaths, because if he was not at the party that he was not invited to none of this young love would have kicked off which means Tybalt would not have had to fly off the hook and throw as many tantrums as he did. But everyone did add to the deaths because of  suicides and murders and poison's then there would not be as many deaths as there would be.