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

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“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?// Deny thy father and refuse thy name,// Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,// And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” (2.2. 36-39). These words uttered by Juliet in her soliloquy about Romeo and how she does not want to be a capulet anymore if that means she will be able to be with Romeo forever. She wonders why his name has to be Romeo and not be someone else like a villager. Some people believe in love at first sight and some don’t but Romeo and Juliet really did experience love at first sight when they saw each other for the very first time in the Capulet household. Characters in the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet including Friar Lawrence, the Fathers, and the Nurse played apart in the …show more content…
They themselves made each other their enemy and would never of been able to accept the fact of Romeo and Juliet. Lord Capulet was pushing Juliet to marry Paris but she didn't want to and he couldn't see that. If Juliet didn't marry him he would've kicked Juliet out of his house to have her live on the streets. “And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets” (3.5. 194). When this play was written the father of his daughter had a duty and it was to find his daughter someone for her to marry and if they refused the father would be ashamed of his daughter and in this case Juliet’s father didn’t want her to live under the same roof anymore if she refused to marry Paris. Part of the plan at the end of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was for Juliet to tell her father that she was going to marry Paris so that her father wouldn’t be suspicious. Lord Montague was so frowned upon the thought of Romeo marrying an enemy of his but he had no idea that it would ever happen. Lord Capulet could've heard Juliet out and let her do what she wanted to do and marry who she wanted to then Juliet wouldn't of gone to the measures that she did she wouldn't of been dead in the end of the play. Lord Capulet and Lord Montague were to blame for the death of Romeo and

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