An obvious reason is if Romeo and Juliet hadn’t fallen in love then there wouldn’t have been a problem. This was also written in the stars; that they would be in love, and so fate once again crops up. But fate could just be playing and telling you the future not actually holding any responsibility.
Hatred, ties in with the Feud very well and can also be to blame. If there was no fighting and no feud then once again there wouldn’t have been any deaths and possibly no romance. After all Mercutio only wanted to go to the party in search of a fight. “And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats.” ‘Foreign throats’ being the Capulet’s this is what Mercutio wants to do because he doesn’t like them and has little else to do. It is because of fathers and people like Tybalt that the feud is upheld, the belief of honour is what upholds this ‘tradition’.
When Romeo is banished he desperately wants to see Juliet again and is in such confusion on hearing what has happened that he misses the note that is left for him. So possibly he killed him self without knowing it.
Romeo and Juliet caused their own deaths because they disobeyed their parents and thought that they were clever enough to ‘live round’ the trouble of everyday life in Verona. If the two lovers had listened to what parent and friends had told them then they wouldn’t have come to the bother that they did. However for all this to be going on and the Feud they must have been really in love to continue the relationship. It was love at first sight for both of them. They were both crazy about each other so nothing was going to get in there way. “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.” he is proclaiming his love for Juliet to him self. He uses a metaphor to describe Juliet, it is of the sun. This is a beautiful image of the sun rising because the sun looks beautiful in the morning, fresh and pure. Juliet doesn’t use metaphorical speech to say what she wants she only ask “O Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou Romeo?” at this point she is not as madly in love as he is bit still wishes to see him for she loves him already. Juliet appears much more rational about love and ‘looks before she leaps’ she does think of possible outcomes and even believes that it cant work and wishes that he was of the same house.
“What is Montague? It is nor hand nor foot, nor arm nor face nor any other part belonging to a man. O be some other name.” She asks herself what actually is the problem with loving him and why is each house always at each other’s throats. Romeo is blinder to this problem. He sneaks into the Capulet’s mansion just to see Juliet and even has to be told that he shouldn’t be seeing her because of who she is. Mercutio implies this by saying
“Nay, if our wits run the wild goose chase, I am done: for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of thy wits.” He is saying that he doesn’t want anything to do with what could happen with Romeo and Juliet for he also sees bad things approaching. He fears his own life and the life of Romeo’s.
Friar Lawrence is almost Romeos personal advisor as well as a Franciscan. He would love to see the end of the any fighting, namely the feud. The Friar means well and he hopes that this marriage could bring the families together, in a cruel way it does bring them together. Friar Lawrence still sees, despite him thinking it’s a good idea, trouble in this “Fall upon the ground as I do know, taking the measure of an unmade grave.” He believes that the end is written and they are likely to die, the graves are already dug, but he wants to give it a try he wants peace as much as most people do in the city.
Juliet’s nurse is extremely trust worthy because she doesn’t tell anyone about the marriage. Juliet confides in the nurse and tells her everything. Unfortunately the nurse is weak and indecisive and proves that she is worse than Romeo when it comes to the relationship despite the fact she isn’t even in love. She loves this idea of proper romance as it is absent from most of the lives around her. Juliet’s marriage was to be pre-arranged and she wouldn’t have had a say in it, this was probably the case of her parents as well so the nurse isn’t likely to have ever seen true love. The nurse appears to break down and tell Juliet that she shouldn’t marry Romeo instead marry Paris as it would solve the problems that both of them face, luckily the nurse wasn’t weak enough to break down In front of or to the parents otherwise this may well have lead to their deaths.
If either Friar Lawrence or the nurse is to blame for the deaths then The Friar is more likely to have more of the blame because he arranged and performed the marriage.
For anybody to be blamed for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t be accurate as they incurred the consequences. They didn’t think accurately and subsequently fell into each others trap of love. They realised what could and inevitably did happen, love is a very powerful thing and because of this both the two lovers died, with such strong love, for each other. So nothing could be done to stop the events unfolding as they did it was meant to be their future was written in the stars.
