Blame For Tragedy In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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The death of two young people that loved each other. People need someone to blame but they don’t who. A feud between two families keeps the lovers apart and they just can’t stand to live without each other anymore. Until one dies and the other fallows in the same path. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is the most responsible for this tragedy because he decided to go to the party, he killed Tybalt in the square, and he chooses to end his own life and leave the pain the easy way. First at the beginning of the play Romeo is lost in his love for Rosaline. In act 1 scene 5 Romeo chooses to go to the Capulet’s party, at the party romeo meets Juliet. Also Romeo is caught by Tybalt, and he was mad that when he told Capulet, he wouldn’t let him do anything about it. “Uncle this is a Montague, our foe, a villain, that is hither come in spite to scorn at our solemnity this night” (1.5.63-65). If Romeo chooses not to go that party than he wouldn’t have met Juliet or been caught by Tybalt and there would be no fight that gets him banished. …show more content…
In act 5 scene 3 Romeo is with Balthasar and he is explaining how he cannot live without JUliet because he thinks that she is dead, and he can’t live now that she is gone. “I think he told me Paris should have married Juliet? Said he not so, or did I dream it so? Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet, to think is was so? O give me thy hand, one writ with me in sour misfortune's book!” (5.3.77-82). If Romeo is more patient and waits for Juliet than he would not have killed himself leaving her in the tomb to wake up to his dead body and kills herself

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