The Real Cause In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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The Real Cause in Romeo and Juliet

In every story there’s that one character you love, the one character you hate and the one guy in the back you often forget is even there. Although, sometimes we don’t think about who actually causes conflict. William Shakespeare's, “Romeo and Juliet” seems fairly predictable just like most dramatic plays. The course of the play seems to have life going a very bad direction for Romeo and his star-crossed lover, Juliet. These tragic events weren’t actually caused by any villain. I believe they were actually caused by our main character Romeo.

“I fear too early, for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night’s revels, and expire the
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No this was from his star-crossed lover, Juliet. Juliet felt the need to prompt Romeo to ask for her hand in marriage. In a way this marriage was kind of her fault. Although, Romeo could have never asked in the first place and had never returned to her balcony. He could have easily done that, but because this is Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare decided “let’s make this as complicated and dramatic as possible”.

“I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give.

Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live.”

So yeah that kind of sums it up pretty well. Romeo killed Tybalt. This quote was when Juliet's mother was freaking out and stuff. Juliet could end up totally hating him and stuff after this, if they weren’t already married! After this whole Romeo killing Tybalt thing, He gets banished, and still comes back to Verona later.

If Romeo hadn't gone to the party at all, the story could’ve ended there. If he hadn’t proposed to Juliet none of this killing Tybalt stuff would be an issue either. If he hadn’t killed Tybalt he might have a chance at staying with Juliet in Verona and ending the rial between their two families without death. Although, Romeo is the one character most of us love and adore and maybe Tybalt was the one character we forget about, maybe Romeo was the cause of all the tragic

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