Credibility In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Address the following prompt in a multi paragraph essay: How do patterns or contrasts in language reveal a central idea of Romeo and Juliet? Support your claims in answer to the question and demonstrate an understanding of the play. Cite several pieces of strong textual evidence in the form of direct quotations and parenthetical citations (act, scene line numbers).

The potion was able to have Juliet fake her death for forty-two hours and place her into a catatonic state. Juliet took this potion so she could get away with not having to marry Paris. According to act 4 scene 4 and 5, the nurse was the one to find Juliet deceased in her bed and is the one to tell Juliet's parents. When Romeo caught the wind with this tragedy he discovered that he couldn’t live his life without Juliet so he ended up killing himself. Friar Lawrence was to blame for this because the potion wasn’t necessary, Juliet could have stuck up for herself and decide that she didn’t want to marry Paris now. This is the second reason why Friar Lawrence is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and

Usually, elaborate and complicated plans do not turn out the way that they are supposed to, especially in this scenario. Later in the play, Romeo is banished from Verona for killing Tybalt. Friar Lawrence tries to help the young lovers using a potion, “ a thing like death to chide away this shame, that cop’st with death himself to ‘scape from it...And if thou dearest, I’ll give thee remedy.” (183). This potion would make Juliet appear dead for 42 hours, and then she would arise. Giving an almost deadly potion to a 14-year old does not seem like a responsible measure to take. Friar thinks that when Paris sees Juliet dead, he will stop pursuing Juliet for once and Juliet will stay loyal to Romeo. Friar sends a “letter was not nice but full of charge of dear import, and neglecting it may do much danger.” (219). This letter includes the potion plot and what Friar’s intentions were. Unfortunately, Romeo never receives this letter and never gets to know that Juliet will stay loyal to Romeo,

The Friar, knowing that the poison could harm Juliet, decides it is best to let Juliet decide, Juliet is not in the right mind nor is she old enough to decide these things yet the Friar allows her to decided and even tells her there is hope, this decision brings light on just how ignorant Friar Laurence was. All these mistakes can be filed up as just mistakes but there is one thing the Friar did that is the true reason Romeo and Juliet died. The Friar decided to send his own priest to Romeo instead of giving Romeo’s servant the message, we can tell the Friar has done this when Romeo ask his servant “Dost thou not bring me letters from the Friar?”(3.6.38). This leads to Romeo believing that Juliet is dead and eventually leads to Romeo’s suicide.

The potion imitates death and is meant to give Romeo time to meet Juliet when she wakes. The two are supposed to run away together, but the letter that Friar Lawrence fails to deliver has all the information about Juliet’s fake death. Instead, the news of Juliet’s death

“Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor drink thou off” (Shakespeare 4.1.96-97) This quote reveals that Friar gave Juliet the sleeping potion to drink the night before Paris and Juliet were to be married. The plan that he had in mind was for Juliet to drink the sleeping potion that would make her appear dead for forty-two hours, be buried in the Capulet tomb, then be saved and took to Mantua by Romeo when she woke up. However, it is later revealed that Friar John couldn’t bring the important letter Friar Laurence wrote to Romeo that described the plan because he was quarantined inside of a house because town health officials suspected he was infected with the plague. When he heard of this, Friar Laurence was going to write to Romeo again, meanwhile taking Juliet to his cell when she woke up and keeping her there until Romeo arrived. It was too late, since Romeo already heard that Juliet was dead from Balthasar, causing him to already be on his way to Juliet’s grave to kill himself so he could be with her. Friar Laurence allowing Juliet to drink the sleeping potion before he was certain that Romeo knew about the plan was ultimately what caused the death of Romeo and

However, there is reason to believe that the Friar was not at fault for the deaths and was simply doing what he thought best. The Friar was a romantic at heart and believed in true love, who hoped that with the union of Romeo and Juliet would come the reconciliation of their families. He said, "For the alliance so happy prove to turn your household's rancour to pure love". We can defend the Friar by saying that, because of his position, his dishonesty served to satisfy the families and prevent stirring up chaos. He obviously valued his job a great deal.

Lastly, Friar Lawrence is the most to blame for the events that occur in Romeo and Juliet because he went behind Juliet's parents backs and didn’t tell them about him and Juliet’s evil plans. “If thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.” Without considering what her parents think or say about the subject friar is willing to make Juliet the potion behind her parents back. This quote is the last and final evidence from the play. It shows how Friar does not consider Juliet's parents decisions. If three pieces of evidence isn’t enough I don’t know what

He made the mistake by trusting a young girl with the poison. The Friar could have calmed her down by making a better plan when she was pressuring him that she will kill herself if he does not do anything. If he had not given the poison to Juliet, than Romeo would not have thought that she is actually death. He told Juliet that he would inform Romeo about their plan by giving a letter to him. So if he had not given Juliet the poison, she never would have been put in the position that she was in, which lead to her and Romeo's

The hatred between the Montagues and the Capulets triggered Friar Laurence to give Juliet a sleeping potion, an action with grave consequences. Her dilemma is that her father, Capulet, is ordering her to marry Paris but she can't because it would go against her religion because she is married in secret to Romeo. Juliet asks Friar Laurence for a solution to her dilemma. The Friar proposes that Juliet take a special potion that would make it seem like she were dead. This is the Friar's instructions to Juliet as to when to take the potion and the effects of the potion:

First of all the potion could have accidentally been the wrong thing and she could have been poisoned and killed right there. Second the Friar had Juliet drink the potion before Romeo knew about the plan. The Friar is a man of God and he had Juliet break the law and fake her own death. The Friar’s last fault in the story was that he did not wait for the letter to get to Romeo before telling Juliet to drink the potion.

Friar Lawrence's Deadly Support “Hold daughter I do spy a kind of hope”(183). Spoken by Friar Lawrence in William Shakespeare's famous romantic tragedy, and describes his support towards Romeo and Juliet; however, sometimes helping someone does more harm than good. In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, support is shown in more than just one way. Friar Lawrence's willingness to support Romeo and Juliet ultimately causes their deaths.

Friar Lawrence is the one who provides the potion to Juliet knowing the risks and possible failures the plan could contain. As he gives her the potion, he says, “A thing like death to chide away this shame, That cop’st with death himself to ‘scape from it; And if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy” (4.1.75-78).

Friar wanted to fake the death of Juliet so she did not have to marry Paris and Romeo to come and bring her with him. Friar first of all did not have to make the plan at all his job was to marry them and he did he can get out of the situation now. He decides to stay and makes this sleeping potion for Juliet to drink. Friar did not have to do this and if he did not it would have been for sure that Juliet did not die. If Friar would have told Romeo about the plan it would of stopped their deaths also because then Romeo would have known that Juliet was sleeping and not dead.

Juliet could have constructed a second option in alternative to drinking the potion. Juliet went to Friar begging for a replacement from marrying Paris. The Friar elected to give her a vial with a mysterious potion constructed inside. “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off.” , (Shakespeare, 453).