Romeo Juliet to Blame

Blinded by lust and the justice of love at first sight, these star crossed lovers forced a love that wouldn’t have had a beautiful end. “The fearful passage of their death-marked love” (Prologue line 9) Romeo and Juliet are to blame for the deaths of their own life. The two get blinded when Romeo sees Juliet at the capulet ball. He admires her beauty “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear--” (I.V.44-46) but when Romeo encounters her, he believes he is in love but it is only lust to her beauty. Yet she is his enemy he still lets his lust take over just so does Juliet “My only love, sprung from my only hate!” (I.V.138)

Romeo had gone back to see Juliet after the ball this is where the two had believed they

were in love. Juliet had stood on her balcony speaking out to Romeo, “Deny thy father and refuse the name; Or, if thou