Romeo and Juliette Case

Who do you think Prince Escalus should blame when it comes to the matter of Romeo and Juliet's death? Give three reasons. Do you think they should be forgiven or punished? Explain.

I think that Juliet's and Romeo's parents are the ones to blame for Romeo and Juliet's death for three reasons. The reasons are as followed: Juliet's parents are Capulets while Romeo's parents are Montagues, and these two families bitterly hated each other. The second reason was that Juliet wasn't close to Lady Capulet and because of that she wasn't able to have a mother-daughter talk with her about what was going on in her life. The final reason is that Juliet's parents insisted on Juliet getting married way sooner than she had anticipated.

The first reason that I think that Juliet's and Romeo's parents are the ones to blame for her and Romeo's death is that hate made them blind to all that was going on around them. Juliet was a Capulet while Romeo was a Montague. The problem with this was that the Capulets and Montagues hated each other because of an ancient grudge. Even though this hate didn't extent to Romeo and Juliet, if their parents had found out about their love and their marriage, they would have accused them of betraying their family name, disowned them, and send an assassin after them. They wouldn't have been able to look past their hate for one another and realize that this was heavens way of telling them that it was time for them to come together through Romeo and Juliet. In the end, their hatred brought more pain and suffering to them, since the root of all the problems in the play was the hatred between these two families.

Secondly, Juliet was not close to her mother by any stretch of the imagination. Her mother should have been her personal cheerleader, best friend, and someone that was always available to listen to Juliet's problems and give her good advice. But Juliet did not have that kind of relationship with Lady Capulet. Juliet couldn't go and tell her mother about her secret marriage to Romeo because her mom would not have understood. If Juliet had had that kind of relationship with Lady Capulet, she wouldn't have used extreme measures (taken the potion to make her look "dead") since Lady Capulet would have been able to give her good advice on how she could be with Romeo or she would have spoken to Lord Capulet on Juliet's