Who is most responsible for the deaths of romeo and juliet? consider whether fate, the families, the friar, romeo and juliet, or any other characters from the play are most responsible. what does romeo and juliet illustrate about the nature of love? consider how the play portrays love between family members and love between young men and women. if a director must cut scenes from romeo and juliet for performance, which scenes could be removed? how would their absence affect the play as a whole?

There is no person responsable for their death, but if i had to chose someone I will choose the tow families and Romeo and Juliet , because the two families arguies let Juliet to pretend her death, but it's also juliets fault because she didn't warn Romeo it wasn't real, so Romeo killed himself. It's also Romeos fault because if he wouldn't have killed himself Juliet will later tell him it was everything fake and they will both could go away.
Romeo and Juliet illustriates true love, and how love hearts but it's worthy to take the risk so that you can find happiness.
I consider that depending on the book or which film you are talking about (there has been many film adaptions of Romeo and Juliet) it could been removed different scenes also this depend on the personal opinion of the reader.
Finally if we remove any of the scences it will change dramatically the story because I consider all scenes are important so that the story has sense and is more entertaining.
Hope it's useful. peace✌️