who do you think is responsible for romeo and juliet's death and all the other deaths?

Question

i think that it was romeo's fault, but i want to know other people's opinion too. also please give three reasons why you think that person is responsible for the deaths?

Answer 1

I'd say it's not just ONE person; it's the stupidly feuding families: The Montagues and the Capulets

Shakespeare thought so, too, which is why, in the denouement of the play, he has Prince Escalus tell everyone that the deaths are the result of their feuds (and everyone feels justly guilty.)

"This letter doth make good the friar's words,
Their course of love, the tidings of her death:
And here he writes that he did buy a poison
Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal
Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.
Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!
See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
And I for winking at your discords too
Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd."

Answer 2

I think the problem with today's society is we're always looking for a scapegoat: one person to blame for everyone's problems. Life just isn't that simple. More often than not, people share the blame. Granted, one person may be more responsible than others, but that doesn't lessen the fact that the other people should be held responsible, too.

The families were to blame for their foolish hatred of one another. I've read a quote that states, "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." Their hatred inevitably led to the deaths in their families, not only for Romeo & Juliet, but the others, too.

Romeo was a kid with some strong emotions. He had strong love, strong anger, and strong sadness. He needed to learn how to tame those emotions, but he always found himself getting carried away by them. He thought Juliet was dead, and he had ever reason to believe she was dead because of the friar's potion. He shouldn't have so quickly killed himself, but he lost control under such severe heartbreak. It was predictable. If he had more self control, Juliet would have woken up and it would've turned out much better...and Paris would still be alive.

Juliet was so young, only 14. It was predictable that, when she woke up to find Romeo dead, she would become so overwhelmed that she'd kill herself, too. It would have been better if she hadn't, though. Even a broken heart can heal, even after such a tragedy. I think she bears very little of the responsibility.

Friar Laurence is also responsible because he kept giving Romeo & Juliet unwise advice. Everything he planned backfired.

Thus, we can see how the responsibility is shared among many people. If I were to guess who was most responsible, I'd say the families and their hatred for each other.

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Answer 3

I would have to say that we are all responsible for our own actions, we choose to do what we choose to do, no-one can tell us what to think or what to do unless we are willing to do what they want us to do. Romeo didn't make Juliet kill herself, they loved each other with such an intense passion it surrounded and blinded their lives from everything else that once mattered to them. We are each responsible for everything we do, say and learn. We can have good mentors or really bad mentors, but to say that someone else made them kill themselves? That is like saying listening to certain music will make someone want to kill themselves. We all have a choice, especially today, their is always someone to talk to.
Even back then, even in the story Juliet was close to some people around her, she even asked for advise, she chose not to listen to the people around her. Therefor she made her own choice.