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I fell like love at first sight is dumb, specifically because how can you love a person without knowing anything about them. It should be called something along the lines of, Attracted at first sight. You can be attracted to that person by first sight, but I don't believe you'll love em.
There is always someone to be held accountable for almost every wrong situation in society. Individuals have different views about who is the most responsible for the tragedy that befalls William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet. Apart from fate, almost every character in the play is indirectly liable for their contributions towards the misfortune, including the Capulet and Montague families, Tybalt and Mercutio, Friar Lawrence and the Nurse, Romeo and Juliet, and even Prince Escalus. Although no one person stands out as the clear catalyst, certain characters including the feuding families, Mercutio and Tybalt, and Romeo and Juliet are to be held accountable for the demises of Romeo and Juliet.
The feuding Capulet and Montague families have sworn enemies with hatred and ill feelings towards each other. They demand that marriage remain within their clans and condemn affairs with their enemy. This generates a malignant setting for the lovers and is indicated in what the play depicts. Juliet recognizes that her relationship with Romeo is cursed from their first meeting and blames fate for making her fall in love with the sworn enemy of their family. Although she regrets that her lover is from an enemy household by questioning, “what is in a name?” and asking Romeo, “doff thy name… and take all myself,” they are, however, determined to make their relationship work and get married regardless of the consequences. Also, another tone for the tragedy is set when the Lord and Lady Capulet tries to force Juliet into marrying Paris instead of Romeo, a kin of their enemy household (Act IV, Scene 1 and III, Scene 5). They rule with an iron fist and regard their decisions to be final, thus expect their daughter to obey their ruling without seeking her opinion. When she ignores their command, Lord Capulet gets annoyed and says “hang you, you minx! You disobedient wretch! I will tell you now: go to the church on Thursday, or never look on my face again!” The show of arrogance and little concern to her daughter drives her even further, leading her to confide in Friar Lawrence.
Mercutio and Tybalt are constructed as mirror images of their dissimilar clans and play a major role in the families’ hatred toward each other, starting with their provocative, hot-tempered, and stubborn nature. They are troublemakers who inflame the tension and incite hatred with the grudge they bear. They deliberately offend each other with provocative phrases and words such as when Mercutio refers to his nemesis as the “good king of cats” and a coward, “Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk” (Act III, Scene 1). On the other hand, Tybalt tells Romeo, "thou art a villain," a phrase meant to demean him by referring to him as a peasant. These factors together with their refusal to make peace are what sparks a brawl that starts with Tybalt killing Mercutio, Romeo killing Tybalt, to Romeo and Juliet’s demises.
Many individuals claim that Romeo and Juliet are also to be blamed for their deaths. They hold Juliet responsible for blindly putting her faith in Friar Lawrence, threatening to kill herself, and going against and deceiving her parents. An example of this is in Act IV, Scene 1 when she cries to Friar Lawrence, “O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris… And I will do it without fear or doubt.” On the other hand, they hold Romeo responsible for his impulsive nature, and for lacking restraint and control after Mercutio’s death that drives him to seek revenge by killing Tybalt (Act III, Scene 1). On the contrary, I find these proclamations unsound and uncalled-for. The couple is young, innocent, and naive to come up with other solutions when Friar Lawrence's plot failed to materialize due to unforeseen circumstances. Also, Romeo and Juliet were blinded by love and could not see clearly beyond their feelings and actions. This is shown in the end when Romeo panics after seeing Juliet in the casket and realizes the consequences of his foolish actions.
