The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a very well known Shakespearean play. The topic of who is most responsible for the deaths is very controversial and a common discussion when reading. Most would blame it on the family feud but there is no way of knowing what that is, when it started, or who started it. You could draw many different conclusions from reading the text but the most evident one is to blame Romeo. Romeo is the most responsible for his and Juliet’s deaths because he is fickle and rash. One obvious flaw of Romeo’s that led to his and Juliet’s death is that he is fickle. In the play he is so convinced that he is hopelessly in love with Rosaline, and so heartbroken that they cannot be together, that he can barely venture outside. When
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In act five, scene three, Juliet has taken the potion and is sleeping in the Capulet’s tomb, and Romeo, having heard that she is dead, came from exilement and went straight to the apothecary for poison. His first impulsive move was acquiring something by which he means to kill himself without even verifying that what he has been told about Juliet is true. To trust the word of a serving boy who was not in attendance at the funeral is foolish and he should have waited on the Friar’s letters to keep him updated. Even if Juliet had died what’s the point of going to go break into her tomb and then proceed to unnecessarily kill yourself. “Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on/ the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark!/ Here’s to my love. O true apothecary,/ thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” (5.3, 117-120) In his last minutes he also committed another murder, Paris’, which was completely unwarranted. Romeo could have easily gone to the Friar for verification that Juliet was indeed dead instead of breaking into a tomb filled with Capulets, and while there if she had been dead, he could have received guidance on how to move on and get over her death. Nobody close to him would have wanted him to die and then to have his suicide lead to Juliet’s suicide was a complete disaster of misunderstandings and reckless actions. There are ways to deal with grief that are not self …show more content…
Romeo didn’t receive the correct information because he trusted the word of Balthasar who didn’t attend the funeral and was not part of Friar Lawrence’s plan at all. Romeo was too impatient to wait or seek out conformation and went with the word of the first person who mentioned the death. Without even talking to Balthasar much, he went straight for the poison and his own demise. Balthasar himself told Romeo not to act with such haste but he was too rash to act responsibly enough to save both his and in turn Juliet’s life. “I do beseech you sir, have patience./ Your looks are pale and wild and do import/ some misadventure.” (5.1, 27-30) Romeo could have easily waited for word from a more recent and reliable source, and even if word have reached that she was indeed dead, he is still exiled and should not have returned either way. To blame it on Friar Lawrence would be pointless given his plan had nothing to do with the end result of their death’s nor the decisions made by Romeo. It is crucial to always get more than one take on a story before doing anything drastic and especially something like suicide, should not be an easy way out of a much more complex
In act five, scene three, Juliet has taken the potion and is sleeping in the Capulet’s tomb, and Romeo, having heard that she is dead, came from exilement and went straight to the apothecary for poison. His first impulsive move was acquiring something by which he means to kill himself without even verifying that what he has been told about Juliet is true. To trust the word of a serving boy who was not in attendance at the funeral is foolish and he should have waited on the Friar’s letters to keep him updated. Even if Juliet had died what’s the point of going to go break into her tomb and then proceed to unnecessarily kill yourself. “Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on/ the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark!/ Here’s to my love. O true apothecary,/ thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” (5.3, 117-120) In his last minutes he also committed another murder, Paris’, which was completely unwarranted. Romeo could have easily gone to the Friar for verification that Juliet was indeed dead instead of breaking into a tomb filled with Capulets, and while there if she had been dead, he could have received guidance on how to move on and get over her death. Nobody close to him would have wanted him to die and then to have his suicide lead to Juliet’s suicide was a complete disaster of misunderstandings and reckless actions. There are ways to deal with grief that are not self …show more content…
Romeo didn’t receive the correct information because he trusted the word of Balthasar who didn’t attend the funeral and was not part of Friar Lawrence’s plan at all. Romeo was too impatient to wait or seek out conformation and went with the word of the first person who mentioned the death. Without even talking to Balthasar much, he went straight for the poison and his own demise. Balthasar himself told Romeo not to act with such haste but he was too rash to act responsibly enough to save both his and in turn Juliet’s life. “I do beseech you sir, have patience./ Your looks are pale and wild and do import/ some misadventure.” (5.1, 27-30) Romeo could have easily waited for word from a more recent and reliable source, and even if word have reached that she was indeed dead, he is still exiled and should not have returned either way. To blame it on Friar Lawrence would be pointless given his plan had nothing to do with the end result of their death’s nor the decisions made by Romeo. It is crucial to always get more than one take on a story before doing anything drastic and especially something like suicide, should not be an easy way out of a much more complex