Who Is To Blame For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet?

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Vishi B                English Coursework

11E

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 feuding families.

In this essay I will state who or what are responsible for their deaths, the main theme of the story is hatred and fate. Firstly I must introduce the two families because their attitude of hatred is responsible for the deaths mainly because if they hadn't quarrelled then maybe Romeo and Juliet wouldn't have got married in secret.

Resulting in the feud all the members perpetuated the feud this is illustrated by Tybalt from the Capulet family, Juliet's cousin, he started the fight that resulted in Romeo getting banished and he was always causing trouble.

He more than any one else in the story kept hatred alive between the two families because of his violence.

I also blame Lord and Lady Capulet, Juliet's parents because they should have paid more attention to Juliet's wishes when she refused to marry Paris.

At first they threatened to throw her out onto the streets as in Act three Scene 5

Capulet says to Juliet "Thursday is near lay hand on heart and you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend, and you to be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets." Lady Capulet also put her daughter in the care of the Nurse who raised Juliet as her surrogate daughter. The Nurse being a blabbermouth out spoken person was also responsible for the death of Juliet. She never acknowledged that maybe Juliet wasn't ready for this immense step in her life from an on looker guardian.

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In Act two-Scene four the Nurse warns Romeo to be true to Juliet and she explains there is another man after her, Paris, she compares the two. She says to Romeo that her Juliet is sweet "well sir my mistress is sweetest lady, lord o there is a noble man in town Paris."

She encouraged Juliet in her romance with Romeo because the action of her being a blabber mouth is that she carried the messages of a secret meeting of where she knew that they where going to spend a night of passion together in Act three Scene two ...

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