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Who Is To Blame For Romeo's Death

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The play “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare, is a story of love and death between two members of warring families. Romeo Montague loves Juliet Capulet and knowingly marries her despite the consequences. These two people fall in love, knowing their families have been fighting for a long time, and many situations occur that results in the death of Romeo and Juliet. As a result of his impulsive and hasty actions, Romeo's death was purely his fault. Romeo's death was caused by his own actions because he knowingly marries Juliet despites their families are fighting. The chorus describes the families as “both alike in dignity” and that “from ancient grudge breaks into new mutiny” (20). The families are alike in social and economic status but yet they have been fighting constantly for years. Even currently, they are fighting over nothing. Romeo is very aware of this fact and even fights with Capulets himself, so he is aware of the potential problems of marrying a Capulet. However, he marries her instantly because he does not think through his actions and is too hasty. They are forced to keep their relationship a secret, causing problems and miscommunication that later causing a chain-reaction of events leading to his death. …show more content…

When Juliet drank the potion to fake her death, Romeo had no idea that this would happen. This is shown when Balthasar gives Romeo the news that Juliet is dead, and Romeo decides to die and thinks that ”I will lie with thee tonight. Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift. To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!” (lines 36-38 ). This shows that once he hears something he doesn't like, he impulsively thinks he can't live without Juliet. This caused Romeo's death because if he had known that this was happening or thought about what he was doing instead of letting his emotions get the best of him, he might not have killed himself and ran away with

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