Romeo and Juliet Group

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readingbooks17
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Who is to blame for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?

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Posted by readingbooks17 on Friday January 26, 2007 at 1:41 PM and tagged with characters, plot, responsibility, romeo and juliet.

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  1. janet-costa Teacher
    Graduate School

    In Shakespeare's time, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet would have been their fault because they disobeyed their parents. However, we tend to interpret the story as a love story subject a group of coincidences. Looking at the play, the phrases "star-crossed lovers," "Fate," "dreams," and "misgivings," all indicate that the two believe that no matter what they do, whatever is going to happen will happen. That said, Romeo's impatience and willingness to suffer for love contribute significantly to the tragic end.

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    Posted by janet-costa on Monday March 26, 2007 at 8:53 AM

  2. aviyalvr
    aviyalvr Student
    High School - 9th Grade

    Romeo and Juliet are to blame for this tragedy. Shakespeare is trying to tell us that fate and nothing else is responsible, but they really are. This play was filled with choices that they had. They chose to marry eachother so quickly, Romeo chose to crash the Capulet party, Romeo chose to kill Tybalt, Juliet chose to take the potion, Romeo chose to poison himself. Fate was not responsible for anything that happened.
    The Nurse was also responsible because she could have told Lord and Lady Capulet that Juliet married Romeo and Friar Lawrence could have told Lord and Lady Capulet that Juliet was not really dead. But if you really think about it Romeo and Juliet caused this tragedy.

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    Posted by aviyalvr on Sunday April 22, 2007 at 3:16 PM

  3. youthinkilikeyou
    youthinkilikeyou Student
    High School - 12th Grade

    It really does vary. An amount of people could be blamed for the tradegy of Romeo and Juliet as just about each person had something against them. If we were answering for the Elizabethian audience, it would havebeen Romeo and Juliet's fault for falling in love but, in the modern day audience it is a different matter as we see it as ordinary for a girl and boy to fall in love(although mabye not so quickly!)

    Personally, I think it is nobody's but everybody's fault. I see it as the real fault was the society they lived in (the Patriarchal), this being that the men had more authority over the women and were seena s more superior. This meant that in each household, the father chose the best suitor for their daughter(someone who was rich). This lead to Romeo and Juliet unable to marry in public, which then lead to Juliet faking her death in order to be with the man she loved-you know the rest.

    But also, Lord and Lady Capulet are to blame for pressuring Juliet to marry Paris and not Romeo. It could be blamed on Friar Lawrence for encouraging to marriage to end the century long feud betweent he two families and yet it could be blamed mainly on Juliet and Romeo themselves; for being such fools.

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    Posted by youthinkilikeyou on Tuesday July 3, 2007 at 6:35 AM

  4. lollipop18
    lollipop18 Teacher

    But if Romeo or Juliet had told thier parents about their love for each other, i don't think they would have aloud it. Maybe if they were less childish and made up.

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    Posted by lollipop18 on Sunday March 15, 2009 at 3:27 AM

  5. revolution
    revolution Teacher
    Doctorate

    The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet were not typically their faulty. I think it is all due to the strainrelationship and the long and everlasting feud between the two warring families, the Capulets and the Montagues, that cultimates to this terrible disaster, or you could say, love story gone tragic. If all this pointless and worthless arguments and squabbles were resolved in an amiable manner, Tybalt would not have died and Romeo would not be separated from Juliet due to his exile.

     

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    Posted by revolution on Thursday July 16, 2009 at 6:12 AM