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Friar Laurence Is To Blame In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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In Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence is to blame for their deaths. Juliet is the only child of the Capulets and is supposed to marry Paris on her 14th birthday. Romeo is the only son of the Montagues. Romeo and Juliet meet when Romeo comes to a Capulet party without being invited. The two fall in love and are married the next day, but are then forced to separate when Romeo is exiled from the city. Juliet is forced to marry Paris, but the night before the wedding she takes a potion to make her appear to have died. Romeo thinks she has died and kills himself while lying next to Juliet in the tomb, minutes later Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead next to her and kills herself. So Friar Laurence is to blame for their deaths

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