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Friar Lawrence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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The “Truth”
Romeo and Juliet were ill-fated from the beginning! The prologue of Romeo &
Juliet even describes their love for each other was “death mark’d” (Prologue, line 9). The possibility of Romeo And Juliet living in harmony was very, very slim due to their family’s relationships, but was their death avoidable? Did other characters or forces hinder happily ever after? Out of all the characters and forces, Friar Laurence is to blame for the suicide of the couple because he is the one that wedded them in the first place, and he did give Juliet the potion that caused all of this!
Romeo & Juliet still made their own decisions to take their lives, but other than that Friar
Laurence is a big part in the fatality of the young couple. For instance, Friar Laurence marries Romeo and Juliet in a cell and allows Romeo to spend the night with Juliet (2.6 Line 20) . He planned on solving the family feud with the marriage "...To turn your household's rancour to pure love"(2.3. 92), but he did not make any arrangements to inform Montague and Capulet that he married Romeo and Juliet; he simply disappeared. This was also horrible decision because parents wanted her to to be …show more content…

It is possible that Tybalt played just as big of a role as Friar Laurence! This could be true because Tybalt started all of this madness. In act 1 Scene 3, after a verbal altercation between Mercutio and Tybalt, Romeo arrives on the scene and is challenged by Tybalt. Eventually Romeo kills Tybalt, and the prince ends up banning him from Verona. Tybalt is essentially responsible for the death of the couple, Romeo’s banishment sets up the death potion hoax that goes very wrong and leads to the death of both of them. But Tybalt is not to blame because he was only acting on longstanding tradition. Friar Laurence is to blame because he could have easily prevented the suicides instead of

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