Who Is To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death

When Romeo goes to the friar to ask Friar Lawerence to marry them he agrees saying, “So smile the Heavens upon this holy act, that after-hours with sorrow chide us not” (II, vi, 1-2) This quote shows that he hoped that the odds will be in their favor. Friar Lawrence was a first optimistic about the marriage hoping it would bring the feuding families together; even though just a few pages before he criticises Romeo for changing his love from Rosaline to Juliet telling him, “Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies, not truly in their hearts but in their eyes” (II. iii. 70-72). Friar Lawrence knew that Romeo’s love for Juliet was only in the eyes and not from the heart. He already doubted Romeo’s youth and immaturity. But he marries them anyway in secret hoping the feuding will

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story about star-crossed lovers who lost their lives due to sorrow and grief. Writers and readers all around argue about who was at fault for the death of these two young characters. Mercutio, who was the one who convinces Romeo to go to the ball in the first place, could be blamed as well. And when Mercutio was murdered by Tybalt, Romeo killed him out of anger, which led to the separation of the two lovers. There are multiple people we could pin for their deaths, even their parents because of their huge family feud. I think the three people to be blamed are the nurse, Friar Laurence, and our very own star-crossed lovers.

Beside Lord Capulet and Romeo, Friar Lawrence is also directly responsible for Juliet’s death. He makes not only one, but three major mistakes that all results in death of Juliet. To begin with he gives a potion to Juliet. At this time, Friar Lawrence is the only person that Juliet will fully trust, however, Friar Lawrence shows his irresponsibility by saying, “If…thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself…take thou this vial” (). In this circumstance, Friar’s plan is very risky for unstable Juliet. He decides to take risk rather than thinks for a better plan. Juliet’s fake death does fools all the people, however, Juliet will never lie on the monument if Friar Lawrence does not give Juliet the potion, and Juliet will not die at last. Next mistake that Friar Lawrence makes is he let Friar John to send the letter, who does not know how important the letter is. It is inexcusable to let someone else to do this urgent thing. Friar John shows his incompetence when he says “I could not send it, here it is again” (). The letter is one of the most crucial symbol in the play. To a certain extent, Friar John fails send the letter to Romeo foreshadow the play will have a tragedy ending. If Friar Lawrence delivers the letter by himself, the plan may proceed perfectly. The quotation

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At one part in the play his friends think he is still in love with Rosaline when in fact he has forgotten about Rosaline and is in love with Juliet. Romeo is quick to arrange the wedding and doesn’t wait to visit Friar Lawrence. The fact that Romeo and Juliet didn’t stop to think about marriage is one of the factors that contribute to their deaths. The Friar also thinks Romeo is in love with Rosaline and expects that he has spent the night with her, because he is in a good mood “God pardon sin! Wast thou with Rosaline”, but instead he has spent the night with Juliet. Romeo has a close relationship with the Friar, he acts as a father figure. This is shown when the Friar tell him he is banished. Romeo threatens to kill himself but Friar Lawrence stops him and gives Romeo some advice as Romeo knows he can trust the Friar “ Let me dispute with thee of thy estate”.

When telling the tragic, but beloved story of Romeo and Juliet from one of William Shakespeare’s many plays there are several characters in the story that could possibly be held responsible for the star-crossed lovers deaths. Three of those many characters should stand out more than others to blame for the beloved main characters deaths. These three characters are the Feud, Lady Capulet, and Fate. The Feud is one choice to blame because it it the cause of many other conflicts that take place in the story. While Lady Capulet does not cause as many conflicts as the Feud she does present one main problem to Juliet by pressuring her to get married to Paris as soon as possible. Lastly Fate is used many times in the play to explain why Romeo and

Romeo and Juliet, the Shakespearean playwright of two star crossed lovers, ends in two tragic deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. Who can be hold responsible for their deaths, when so many things went wrong along the way? Many could be held responsible for the deaths of the two lovers, but Romeo himself deserves to carry the heavier load of responsible for not only his death, but the death of his lover, Juliet as well. The young boy’s acts of irresponsibility, impulse, belligerence, immaturity, and streak of bad decisions only brought definite consequences to both himself and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, was originally published in 1597. Until this day, the play is very well known worldwide. The classic love story is set in Verona and is about a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families. This feud causes the death of their beloved children, Romeo and Juliet, who are described as “star-crossed lovers.” It is a play of contrasts of love and hate, joy and sorrow, light and dark, youth and age, life and death. Some readers will blame the main characters, Romeo and Juliet for bringing about their tragic deaths, however some may argue that other characters are responsible for their deaths, with only little of the blame to be placed on Romeo and Juliet.

In Romeo and Juliet Romeo murdered three out of the six people that died in the book. Romeo killed half of the people and caused the other half to die from killing himself and other people. Romeo is the most to blame for all of the deaths in the book Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

His reasoning for marrying them was to end the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. After Romeo and Juliet were married, Friar Lawrence made a plan for them to live happily together. This plan involved Juliet drinking a potion to make her sleep for 42 hours. When the wedding of Paris and Juliet was moved forward, this plan did not go as expected. Juliet awoke from her sleep to find Friar Lawrence next to her. Friar Lawrence attempted to leave with Juliet, but she refused. His ultimate decision was to leave without her, allowing her to commit suicide. Friar Lawrence states, “I dare no longer stay.” To which Juliet replies, “Go, get the hence, for I will not away.” (Shakespeare 5.3.159-60) If Friar Lawrence would have never married Romeo and Juliet in the first place, they may have not committed

The story Romeo and Juliet has many people to blame for the deaths, you could most likely think of a reason to blame each character. There were a few characters you could pick out that easily had more blame than the others. I believed Capulet, Nurse, and Friar Lawrence had the most causes of the deaths in the story, now you could easily pick out each character and have plenty of reasons to talk about why they were at fault but these three characters stuck out in mind the entire story. Capulet had numerous reasons he could be blamed for the deaths. He forced marriage upon Juliet without asking her what she wanted to do.

1.Shakespeare uses the image of the death in this particular scene to foreshadow the predicted death of Romeo and Juliet. “Hadst thou no poison mixed.No sharp-ground knife” this quotation illustrates that Romeo and Juliet die from Poison and a knife, which we know as a audience from the prologue. The use of dramatic irony makes the audience feel involved with the story and makes us react more emotionally, as we can’t aid the characters. In addition, the use of the element of religion emphasizes Romeo’s overwhelming love for Juliet. As he says “ Heaven is here” inferring that Romeo considers heaven as a place where Juliet lives.In reference to this scene, its shows how Romeo is heartbroken to find out that he is banished and is required to stay

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare the character that was most responsible for the deaths of the star-crossed lovers was Friar Lawrence. Not only was Friar Lawrence the one to marry them in secret, he also created the plan which tragically ended with their deaths. The friar was the voice of reason throughout the play, giving counsel to Romeo when he vowed to marry Juliet and giving hope to Juliet when she promised to kill herself if she had to marry Paris. In Act 2 Scene 2, Romeo comes to Friar Lawrence while he is collecting herbs. Romeo confesses his new found love for Juliet and asks Friar Lawrence to marry them.

After he told him that he no longer loves Rosaline, but loves Juliet a Capulet. Also that Romeo wants Friar to marry them. Friar Laurence tells Romeo that he doesn’t love Juliet, he just thinks she is pretty so pretty he is in love with her looks. But towards the end of conversation between Friar and Romeo, Friar Laurence says “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love” (2. 3. 93-95) He is agreeing to marry Romeo and Juliet. This is Friar giving advice against his morals. First Friar is telling Romeo he doesn’t truly love Juliet, he just thinks she is pretty. Now he is agreeing to marry them because he thinks it will end the family feud. Friar is giving out bad counsel and acting against his

Their vulnerability with the deaths, or thought of death, of eachother caused them to both go off the deep end. In the play, Romeo sees Juliet after he finds out she died, he believes at first he can live with it, he has hope. As Romeo stands with Juliet’s unconscious body, he starts to believe that he can not live without her, and kills himself by drinking a vial of poison. When Romeo believes that Juliet is dead he decides it would be in his best interest to kill himself, but he was weak, so he did it in the quickest, and most painless, way he could. Romeo and Juliet both decided, once they saw each other dead, they should take their own lives.