Who Is To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Fault

Of course, we are humans and every human makes mistakes. Which is alright but making so many to where it costs lives, and a tremendous amount of sadness is not okay. In “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare there are many characters that could be put to blame, but in my opinion it was Juliet’s omission. She is the reason for almost every fault that happens, and if it wasn’t for her, a lot of those mishaps wouldn’t have happened. First off, Juliet had known that both the Capulet’s and Montague’s had had a very deep hatred for eachother, and although she knew she still decided to try to get to know Romeo more. Once she had found out he was a Montague, that didn’t stop her and since she was in “love” and nothing was going to stop her from being with her beloved Romeo, she decided to disobey her parents rules and married Romeo anyways even though her love was her only enemy (Shakespeare 396). …show more content…
She first started off by lying to her father saying that she won’t be with Romeo and that she will marry Paris. Also, she lied to not only Paris, but her whole family about her unexpected “death” even though she had only drank a vial that put her into a deep sleep for forty-two hours, which not only hurt her family, but completely crushed Romeo when he heard the news. Lastly, she lied about her love for Paris, agreeing to marry him even though she was already married to Romeo and having the Friar go along with it (Shakespeare 471). Another reason why Juliet is to blame is because she basically was acting so naive and childish throughout this whole story, although she was young she didn’t really think things through for too long and just decided to do whatever she could to get her out of the mess she was in even if that meant making up a huge lie and then piling another lie on top of that and so on, she was just fighting fire with fire and making a bigger