The Consequences Of Blame In Romeo And Juliet

Blame is something many people turn towards when they do not want to admit they were the cause of it so they, assign the blame to anyone they want to. People easily will fall back on blaming others because it allows them to continue to keep up the “good reputation” they believe they have and it is something they will utilize to remove any emotions that came from them to have the urge to blame someone else. In the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare it shows the exact representation of someone blaming the other for the death of these two lovers however, they on the inside know the actual consequences that they did but, are unwilling to admit to it. For example the quote, "We live in a culture of blame. People will blame anyone or anything for their misery sooner than take the …show more content…
Romeo and Juliet had a love that was forbidden, they were star-crossed lovers against the consent of their parents and when their parents would not support their decision they turned towards what would allow them to be together, death. Having an unsupportive parent causes children to make harmful decisions, when a child believes they lose the one person they believed would support them they make decisions to go against that person’s wishes because of how unsupportive they are to the child’s decisions. Juliet knew that her parents wanted to force her to marry someone against her wishes and when she pleaded to her parents that she did not want to marry, her father became furious, he verbally and physically abused her about it and in the moment