Benvolio In The Tragedy Of Romeo And Juliet

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Friar Laurence is to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet. Friar decided to marry Romeo and Juliet, to attempt to mend the feud between their families. As the play continued, Friar Laurence had provided dangerous medicine to Juliet, leading to Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. Because of mishandling the medicine and marrying Romeo and Juliet Friar Laurence is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

Benvolio is a peacekeeper to the story, very kind-hearted, and holds a special trust in his cousin, Romeo.

    The play Romeo and Juliet  is a romantic tragedy written by William Shakespeare about two star-crossed lovers from feuding families who die at the end of the story. Romeo and Juliet meet at Capulet party and instantly fall in love. With the help of the local friar, Friar Lawrence, and Juliet’s nurse, they get married after knowing each other only a day, without their parents’ consent. Shortly after the marriage, Romeo is banished for fighting and killing Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, forcing him to leave their city of Verona. At the same time, Juliet's father, Lord Capulet, tells her she has to marry Paris, a cousin to the Prince, or else he will kick her out of their home. Friar Lawrence comes up with a plan in which Juliet will take a sleeping potion which makes her look dead for 42 hours and then Romeo will come to Verona to get her and take her away with him to a city a day's ride away. Romeo does not receive the message that Juliet really isn't dead and believes her death to be true. He gets poison from a poor apothecary and dies beside Juliet in the Capulet tomb. Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead beside her, along with Friar Lawrence who came to try and stop Romeo. Juliet refuses to leave and kills herself to be with him. After their deaths, the Prince declares that, “Some shall be pardoned, and some punished” (Shakespeare ???).  The characters in the play that should be pardoned are Friar Lawrence, Lord Montague, and the Nurse.

This play is about a boy named Romeo and girl named Juliet. Their family are mortal enemies so that means that they are always fighting with one another. At a Capulet party Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time not knowing who each other are, until later that night that they are enemies. They begin to fall in love with each other and get married after meeting for one night. Then the drama gets to their head and they kill themselves. In Romeo and Juliet Capulet’s and Montague’s, Friar Lawrence, and Balthasar are responsible for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's plays about tragedy. It is about two lovers who commit suicide when their feuding famillies prevent them from being together. The play has many characters, each with its own role in keeping the plot line. Some characters have very little to do with the plot but some have the

William Shakespeare has written thirty-seven plays, one of his most known is Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet, the main characters, fall in love but, they are rivals. No one approved of their love and they committed suicide three days after they were married. Capulet is responsible for the downfall and death of Romeo and Juliet because he didn’t stop Tybalt from trying to kill Romeo and he kicked Juliet out of the house. Some may say it’s Benvolio’s fault but he did not have control over the chain of events, starting at the Capulet costume party.

In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Benvolio said, “Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,/ Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!”(1.1.165-166) Benvolio suggests that love seems nice, peaceful, and innocent, but in reality it can be disastrous and even deadly. A world famous author and poet by the name of William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in 1597. Romeo and Juliet is known as one of the best love stories in history. There are many significant characters in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: Romeo, Juliet, Benvolio, Tybalt, the Nurse to Juliet, Friar Lawrence, Mercutio, Lord Capulet, and Lady Capulet. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is the heart-wrending love story of two people who want to be together (Romeo and Juliet), but they cannot because their families are rivals. In the end, the two star-crossed lovers do not live happily ever after. Instead, they both perish. Why did their lives end so tragically? Ultimately, the prideful and foolish actions of the Capulets and Montagues, Friar Laurence, Romeo, and Juliet caused their untimely deaths.

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- it’s everything except what it is”(I.i.165). Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two star-crossed lovers going against their families. Along the way of their wondrous tale, we cross the paths of tears, true love, and death beyond compair. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Benvolio and Friar Lawerence should be pardoned and Lord Capulet should be punished for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths.

One person who is to be blamed for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is Friar Laurence. Although Friar Laurence is portrayed as a ‘good’ man – and seems to have/do no harm to the people of Verona – he is not completely blameless. In fact, Friar Laurence undoubtedly has the most blame for their death. In Act Two, Scene Three, Lines 90-95, Friar Laurence agrees to the marriage of Romeo and Juliet because Friar Laurence truly believes that if they were lucky enough, the two feuding households, the Capulets and the Montagues, would have their hatred between one another be turned into pure love. “O, she knew well/Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell./But come, young waverer, come go with me./In one respect I’ll thy assistant be,/For this alliance may be so happy prove/To turn your household’ rancour to pure love.” All Friar

Throughout Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet characters who show importance adapt their own traits, such as Tybalt who is seen as pugnacious and violent and Benvolio who appears to be a peacekeeper and an all around righteous person. These characteristics are seen in the scene where Benvolio is trying to break up the fight, “I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, / or manage it to part these men with me.” (Shakespeare 1.1.61-62) In this case Benvolio was trying to help keep the peace by giving them a choice of helping him stop the fight, which could have stopped plenty of complications and tragedies from arising. Tybalt portrays his characteristics in the same scene as Benvolio, “ What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward!” (Shakespeare 1.1.63-65) In the previous action Tybalt displayed

Friar Laurence and the Nurse are to blame for the suicides of Romeo and Juliet through helping them be together and miscommunicating with others. First, Friar Laurence is to blame for the suicides of Romeo and Juliet because he arranged a secret wedding for the two. When Romeo comes to Friar Laurence to ask if he could marry himself and Juliet, Friar Laurence tries to tell Romeo no for a little while, but after a very little bit of persuading, Friar Laurence says “But come, young waverer, come, go with me,/In one respect I’ll thy assistant be;/ For this alliance may so happy prove,/ To turn your households' rancour to pure love.” (2.4.88-93). Without even thinking about the consequences of marrying Romeo and Juliet, especially in secrecy, Friar Laurence does it anyway. Romeo and Juliet’s death could have easily been prevented if Friar Laurence thought his actions through about marrying them. Secondly, the Nurse and Friar lawrence are to blame for the suicides of Romeo and Juliet by helping them spend their wedding night together. When the Nurse, after she tells Juliet that Romeo was alive she says “Hie to your chamber. I’ll find Romeo/To comfort you; I wot well where he is./ Hark ye, your Romeo will be

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the character Benvolio is one of Romeo’s comrades and is considered a peace keeper at this point in the play. Those two aspects of Benvolio are displayed in the slide made above. When Romeo confesses about his love for Rosaline and asks how he should forget about her, Benvolio gave him the tip of “examin[ing] other beauties” (1.1.236). Rather than leaving Romeo without any advice, Benvolio decides to bestow on some tips. A visual I decided to use for this is a thumbs-up. Another example of Benvolio being one of Romeo’s friends is that Benvolio was searching for Romeo, by calling out his name, even knowing that “he ran [towards the orchard wall] and leapt [the wall]” (2.1.6). Even when Romeo is out

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the two secondary characters, Benvolio and Friar Lawrence are both intended to be voices of reason in Romeo's hectic life by the playwright. The men are Romeo's confidants, Benvolio is Romeo's cousin and the Friar is Romeo's "ghostly father" (2.2.45). They frequently give Romeo advice on how to conduct his love life. When Romeo was head over heals for Rosaline, they discouraged the ill-advised romance because they knew it would end in calamity because she was a Capulet. Benvolio urges Romeo to "Compare her face with some that I will show," (1.2.88) at the Capulet feast so Romeo will forget about her. Friar Lawrence thinks in the same vein saying "That's my good son," (2.3.47) when Romeo denies

Most people that have read the book , Romeo and Juliet, usually ask the question; “Which one of the characters is it to blame for the death of the two star crossed lovers?” Unfortunately, the answer to this question is extremely difficult to be found. This is because in this story, “Romeo and Juliet”, there are more than one person to blame. For example, some characters that has contributed to Romeo and Juliet’s death was the Capulets and The Nurse. This is because they didn’t support their precious Juliet all the way. They forced an arranged marriage on her without her consent because they believed that someone who is royal and noble is perfect for anybody. On the other hand, the person that is the most responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s death is Friar Laurence, since he is a person who needs to plan stuff out more carefully, and who mostly cares for himself.

Angel Lopez Honours freshman english Mrs. Tourangeau Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare very well may be one of history's best romantic tragedies. In this story two characters named, Romeo and Juliet, were both driven to commit suicide because of the disapproval of their relationship from their rival families. Once all said and done one character may be responsible for these characters’ deaths. Friar Lawrence should be held responsible for these two characters’ deaths because he wed the couple in order to solve the feud, he did not try to warn Romeo when the letter was not able to be sent, and he should not of given the sleeping potion to Juliet in the first place. Friar Lawrence in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths.