It is hard to establish who is to blame for the lovers' deaths, as the blame cannot be put on the shoulders of one solitary person or party. In order to answer the question given one has to take every character and their actions into consideration. A character's actions should then be intensely scrutinised. Is it just who is to blame that we need to consider though"

As the dramatist has made obvious instantly, factors such as Fate play a major part in the suicides of Romeo and Juliet. The establishment of Fate's hand in the tragedy is early on when the bard informs the audience that the lovers are, `star-cross'd.' It is not only the dramatist in the prologue who establishes the Fate of the couple, but fortune is also mentioned numerous times by...