Romeo And Juliet "A Pair Of Star - Cross'd Lovers"

In Shakespeare’s play of Romeo and Juliet, the couples’ lives end tragically. They were described as ” a pair of star – cross’d lovers.” Their lives and deaths were told to be fate, but if certain characters made different decisions throughout this story Romeo and Juliet may have not died at all. If things were done differently this play may have not ended the way it did.

Lord Capulet is one of the people who could be blamed for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet see each other and meet with each other for the first time at the ball held Lord and Lady Capulet. Romeo sees her for the first time and instantly falls in love, ” Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”

Juliet’s cousins, Tybalt becomes aware of Romeo’s presence at the ball and automatically assumes he is here to something bad.

He gets his weapon and prepares to kill him Romeo but Lord Capulet also becomes aware of Romeo’s presence. Tybalt tells Lord Capulet that Romeo is a member of the Montague family, ” This, by his voice, should be a Montague, ” but Lord Capulet tells Tybalt to leave him alone because he doesn’t want to disturb the ball and displease his guests. However Tybalt is still desperate to kill, ” I’ll not endure him,” so Lord Capulet clearly warns Tybalt not to lay a finger on Romeo, ” He shall be endur’d.

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What goodman boy! I say he shall. Go to! Am i the master here, or you? Go to! You’ll not endure! ”

Tybalt unwillingly listens to Lord Capulet and stay where he is. Romeo meets with Juliet and they both fall in love with each other. If Lord Capulet had not stopped Tybalt and let him throw Romeo out of the ball, Romeo may have not died at the end of the play along with Juliet. We can not blame Lord Capulet for just wanting there to be peace between the two families but unfortunately his timing wasn’t perfect. But even if Romeo did get thrown out, he had already fallen in love with Juliet. He still might have tried to seek out Juliet and the tragedy may have still taken place.

The next people who could be to blame are Lord and Lady Montague. Romeo didn’t have a very close relationship with his parents; he would hardly talk to them and would try to avoid them. At the beginning of the play Romeo believes he is in love with Rosaline but she doesn’t really want to know him. This causes Romeo heartache and his parents are aware that there is a problem with Romeo but they have no idea he is lovesick over Rosaline, ” And private in his chamber pens himself, shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, and makes himself an artificial night. ”

Lord and Lady Montague knew something was bothering him but they hardly showed any effort to talk to him and listen to his problems. If they had talked to him then maybe Romeo would not have felt down and would not have been talked into going to the ball by Mercutio and Benvolio. But because of the distance between himself and his parents he may not have opened up to his parents or listened to what they had to say.

Mercutio may have also been blamed for the tragedy. The reason he could have been blamed is for convincing Romeo to go to the ball. Romeo at first did not want to go to the ball but the continuous teasing from Mercutio made Romeo reluctantly agree. If Romeo had not been persuaded into going with Mercutio to the ball he would not have seen Juliet that night and their deaths could have been avoided.

Juliet’s Nurse could also be blamed for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The Nurse had a very close relationship with Juliet, even closer than the relationship Juliet had with her mother so it was obvious Juliet would listen to the Nurse very closely. But the Nurse along with Lady Montague wanted Juliet to marry Paris so they pressured her into marrying him; they gave her so many reasons why she should marry him. But Juliet knew she didn’t want to marry him and she was too young to marry him, ” It is an honour I dream not of. ”

Apart from pressuring her with marriage, the Nurse also doesn’t stop from marrying the wrong person. She clearly knew Romeo was a Montague from the first time she met him, ” His name is Romeo, and a Montague; The only son of your great enemy. ” And she obviously knew of the hatred between the two families and yet she went back and forth with Romeo and Juliet’s messages for one another and telling them where to meet for the wedding, ” Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’s cell, there stays a husband to make you a wife. ”

If she would have told Juliet not to go through with the wedding Juliet may have listened to her because of the closeness and Juliet may have not died. Friar Lawrence is another person who could have be blamed for the tragedy. He has two reasons he could have been blamed. The first is because of going ahead and marrying Romeo and Juliet. He went ahead with it because he had an image in his mind of the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, Montague and Capulet, bringing the two families together, ” For this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households’ rancour to pure love. ”

The second reason that he could be blamed was of the plan of the poison at the end of the play. It would make Juliet seem as though she was dead for forty-eight hours, ” And this distilled liquor drink thou off… … shall run a cold and drowsy humour. ”

It obviously didn’t work because it was a risky plan. In my opinion the person who was to blame is Friar Lawrence. I think he was to blame firstly because of the marriage between Romeo and Juliet. The reason why he married them was because he thought it would bring both families together. He obviously about this carefully enough. If anything this would bring more hatred between the families. Knowing how some members of the families usually jump to conclusions, the families would blame the other ones of causing this marriage, placing the blame on the other. Romeo and Juliet would be the target of the blame from their partner’s family. Romeo’s family would blame Juliet and Juliet’s family would blame Romeo.

Secondly I think he should be blamed because of the poison plan. This again was not thought through properly. What if the plan did work? What if Juliet awoke and Romeo got the message and was there by her side? They would have to leave Verona due to Romeo’s banishment and when the Capulets found that the body of Juliet was gone they would accuse the Montague because of the hate for them. Friar Lawrence didn’t think all of this through down to every possibility, so he in my opinion should be blamed for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.