Killing Tybalt was a foolish decision of Romeo’s. At first when Tybalt fights with Romeo, Romeo refuses to fight as he knows that Tybalt is his family after his marriage to Juliet. Mercutio dies which makes Romeo angry with Tybalt and he starts fighting with Tybalt, causing
Next, the threats Tybalt sends Romeo also lead up to the suicides and the cause of death. Tybalt approaches Romeo and tries to start a fight by saying, “Romeo the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain” (119). The constant threats Tybalt sends Romeo endanger his own family. Romeo was told if a family member of his or himself gets in Tybalt swore to himself that he would seek revenge on Romeo for crashing the party. Tybalt’s threats eventually become a full out issue for Romeo.
For I ne’er saw true beauty till the night.” ( Act 1 scene 5, lines 52 – 53) Another flaw in Romeo’s character was his unpremeditated thinking. Combined with his intense, over emotionality, it has been another factor in the cause of his death. Romeo generally acts on his emotions, and never thinks about the consequence of his decisions. This is seen in the event where he avenges Mercutio’s death by killing Tybalt. In that event, the audience can see that Romeo is acting solely on his grief and rage, and not thinking about what the consequences might be afterwards.
Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet, therefore, they are forbidden to fall in love. Friar Lawrence married them in secrecy. Romeo killed Tybalt, and in result he was banished to Mantua by the Prince. When he was banished, Juliet’s father was making her marry Paris. She ran to Friar Lawrence for help and the friar gave her distilling liquor so that she can fake her death.
The young men are not, as men, in control of themselves. “They are not in control of the project of masculine autonomy to which they understand themselves to be pledged. Masculinity is not a single thing they can get a hold of, although they are constantly under pressure to do so” (Appelbaum 70). Mercutio, Romeo’s friend, considers love as unworthy of a real man and “respects only the wounds suffered in combat (Kahn 64). Ironically, Mercutio dies of a wound “occasioned partly by Romeo’s love, while Romeo, no less a man, will die not of a wound but of the poison he voluntarily takes for love” (Kahn 64).
If Friar had done the job himself and correctly, Romeo could have been informed about the predicament preventing his rampage to get to Verona and commit suicide. Friar’s cowardice mind is another reason why Friar was responsible for their deaths. When Juliet needed him the most, after realizing that Romeo and Paris were both dead, Friar runs away from the situation. Friar puts himself before Juliet only worrying about getting caught by the watch and leaves Juliet to her suicide. Friar also trusted Juliet, an unstable teenager, with a near-death poison.
If he had stayed in love with Rosaline then he never would have had to be defended by Mercutio in which battle Mercutio lost his life. Mercutio’s death caused Romeo to want to avenge him by killing Tybalt, which he ended up doing which caused him to be banished, which played a big part in Juliet’s death like state, which when Romeo saw he killed himself. And then when Juliet saw Romeo’s lifeless body, she killed herself as well. Benvolio could be blamed for Romeo and Juliets death as he practically forced Romeo to go to the Capulet’s ball, where he met Juliet and then everything went from
The result of that was Romeo had been banished for murdering Tybalt. Even when dead Tybalt became a burden. When Romeo was banished he could no longer see Juliet and she went to the Friar to seek answers. Tybalt would have been happy that his death had caused the death of a Montague but I think he would have felt a little guilt for the death of his young
In this unimaginable position of sorrow there is nothing Creon can do to fix anything at all. Creon’s major flaw of stubbornness leads to pointless actions, which causes a series of suicides, and finally a tragic downfall. The tragic hero’s regrettable path and destination of sorrow without a doubt prove Antigone to be a Shakespearean Tragedy. But the fact that Creon displayed inability by refusing to face his mistakes and in return received true inability that forever disables him from escaping his guilt and ever becoming the king he once aspired to
Both Romeo and Juliet have the power to make their own decision. Unfortunately, the characters make a lot of poor choices throughout the play. Romeo chooses to marry Juliet in secret, murder Tybalt and Paris, and in the end, take his own life after seeing Juliet dead. Romeo’s choices not only affect him but also those around him. Throughout the play, we never really see him assume responsibility for any one of his choices.