Is Juliet Responsible For The Death Of Romeo And Juliet?

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“A pair of star cross’d lovers take their life” who holds the most responsibilities for the death of Romeo and Juliet?
First of all “a pair of star cross’d lovers take their life” what does it even mean, this means that Shakespeare is indicating a warning that sooner or later their tragic destiny will happen. Although Shakespeare created the phrase, "star-cross'd," meaning disastrous, for this play, it would have been understood at the time as a hint to astrology which means prophesy of the future by examination of stars and planets, or to the calculation of fate in the stars.
The death of Romeo and Juliet is generally everyone fault, there are several people that could be blamed for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet even Romeo and Juliet were part of their own terrible and tragic death, including their parents because they kept the feud between the two families.
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He also caused the death of Romeo and Juliet, if Tybalt didn’t have the argue to kill any of the Montague’s like Romeo and Mercutio, Romeo would have never been so angry to the point that he didn’t even know what he was doing that he ended up killing Juliet’s cousin Tybalt. As they found out that Tybalt died they decided to banish Romeo which later on led to the death of Romeo and