How Did Lord Capulet Deceive Romeo And Juliet

Lord Capulet’s firm and merciless control can also be blamed for pushing his daughter to the extreme and ultimately her untimely death. When Juliet refuses to marry Paris, Lord Capulet proves his insensitivity, even threatening to disown his daughter and cast her to the streets if she does not obey his wishes. He warns her that she may “graze where [she] will, [she] will not house with [him]… for, by [his] soul, [he] will ne’er acknowledge [her]” (III v 200-205). These threats instill fear in Juliet, and in her despair, she seeks the advice of Friar Lawrence who gives her a potion that will make it appear as if she is dead the morning of the wedding. Lord Capulet can be blamed for his stubbornness and insensitivity despite his daughter’s sincere requests not to marry Paris.

Romeo and Juliet deceive others due to the poor guidance they receive about their situation. They resort to deceit as a resolution for their desperate situations. Friar Laurence performs their secret marriage as he believes that this alliance could ‘…Turn [their] household’s rancour to pure love’. Juliet is later forced to marry Paris and asks the Nurse for assistance. The Nurse replies that Juliet is ‘…better in this second match’. The Nurse helped Juliet to marry Romeo but as the situation becomes tricky, she betrays Juliet and encourages her to marry Paris; she provides poor guidance in doing so. This poor advice convinces Juliet to consider a plan involving a ‘desperate… execution’. This desperate execution is provided to Juliet by Friar Laurence who provides Juliet with a potion that puts her in a sleep like death. The Friar

Juliet proves that emotion is the enemy of decision making through her actions with Friar Lawrence and her family. Capulet pressures Juliet to marry Paris at the church on Thursday, but Juliet persistently declines. After Juliet’s fight with Capulet and Lady Capulet, she states, “I’ll to the Friar to know his remedy. If all else fails, myself have power to die” (3.5.242-243). Juliet is explaining her last resort if all else fails. Instead of Juliet contemplating about her own death, she should have considered making other plans to resolve her issues. Additionally, Juliet goes on to to drink a potion that makes her seem dead for two days so that she will be able to be with Romeo, who was banished from Verona. Friar Lawrence gives the potion to Juliet saying, “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off, when presently through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse shall keep his native progress, but surcease” (4.1.96-100). Juliet then accepts the potion stating, “Give me, give me! O, tell not me fear!” (4.1.124). Juliet lets her love for Romeo rein supreme and influence her to drink something that could kill her, just so that she could be with Romeo. Because Juliet caved in, she will pay for her mistakes

This led to Juliet’s suicide because by lying and saying she was crying for Tybalt, when she was really upset about the banishement of her secret husband, caused her parents to arrange her marriage with Count Paris. This caused Juliet to fake her own death to escape her marriage, Romeo to believe she actually is dead and kill himself, and then Juliet to wake up from her fake death, see Romeo dead, and kill herself. The secrecy in this plan to escape marrying Count Paris, their secret marriage, and the lies to Juliet’s family, is what leads Romeo and Juliet to their deaths.

Friar Laurence’s character flaws greatly impacted the end result of the play. The Friar should be punished for his poorly made decisions throughout Shakespeare’s story. His first mistake was when he initially helped Romeo and Juliet with the aid of the Nurse. Both Romeo and Juliet are children and their parents should be included in every decision made for them. The Friar married Romeo and Juliet in Act 3 of the play. “Till Holy Church incorporate two in one” (3.1.37) The marriage was the start of many issues. Such as Juliet’s inability to wed Paris, being a married lady. This led to Friar’s next choice of giving Juliet the sleeping potion—making her appear dead. “Take this vial, being then in bed,” (4.1.93) Giving Juliet the poison was the reason why so many characters had died in the end of Act 5 of the play. Paris had died fighting Romeo because he thought he was attempting to steal Juliet’s “dead” body. Romeo, ignorant of the fact that Juliet was not dead, killed himself. Juliet committed suicide because of her fiancé lying next to her lifeless. The poison given by Friar

Juliet’s drastic outbreaks and dishonesty are results from her father’s actions that take a toll on her happy ending. Initially, Juliet’s dishonesty to her parents is consistent from beginning to end, including her lies to Lady Capulet about having any feelings toward Romeo. By way of example, when Lady Capulet talks about vengeance towards Romeo, Juliet does not express her true feelings and instead says that, “[she] never shall be satisfied with Romeo, till [she] behold him-dead” (3.5.93-94). That being the case, Juliet keeps her newfound love with Romeo Montague a secret from her parents and does not try to tell her parents about her new feelings. In contrast, if Juliet is honest with her parents about her secrets, then they can step in

With respect to Lord Capulet, he says to Paris, “Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender/ Of my child’s love” (III.iv.12-16). Not knowing that Juliet has secretly married Romeo, Lord Capulet arranges a marriage between Juliet and Paris. Shakespeare characterizes Lord Capulet as forceful and unyielding. Because Juliet does not want to marry Paris, she agrees to Friar Lawrence’s dangerous plan that ultimately ends in her death. If Lord Capulet had considered Juliet’s wishes, she would not have had to go along with Friar Lawrence’s suggestion. The literary element, dramatic irony, is demonstrated here because the reader knows that Juliet is already married to Romeo, while Lord Capulet does not. Juliet’s single mindedness also plays a part in her death and that of Romeo. As Juliet drinks the potion that will “kill” her, she says, “Romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee” (IV.iii.58). In the scene, Juliet drinks the potion but fails to consider the consequences. Disaster

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 Juliet must consent to marry Paris, and then the night before the wedding, she must drink a sleeping potion that will imitate death. With her death, the Capulet household will lay her to rest in the Capulet tomb, where then she will wake after 42 hours and be retrieved by Romeo who will elope with her to Mantua. However, the plan fails as a letter explaining the details of the plan was unsuccessfully delivered to Romeo in Mantua. Upon hearing the somber news, Romeo seeks out an apothecary for poison “whose sale is present death in Mantua, here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him” (Shakespeare 5.1). With Juliet gone, Romeo finds no reason to continue living in the world as seeks an apothecary to buy poison from.

Act 4, Scene 1, Paris is talking with Father Laurence to prepare for the wedding Thursday. Friar Laurence doesn’t agree with any of it he says it’s happening to fast but he know Juliet is already married but can’t say a word yet. Friar Laurence comes up with a plan that he thinks will work so her and Romeo can be together. He gives Juliet a potion that will make her sleep a deep sleep for forty-two hours. It’ll

Juliet’s father forces her into a marriage with Count Paris. To avoid this marriage, Juliet takes a potion, given her by the friar, that makes her appear

Juliet goes to Friar Lawrence and asks him to help her find a way out of marrying Paris. Friar Lawrence gives her a potion that will give her the appearance of sleep, and plans for her parents to bring her to the family tomb and reunite her with her husband. However, the messenger that goes to tell Romeo of the Friar’s plan is prevented from his destination because he was quarantined for the plague. When Romeo hears of Juliet’s apparent death, Romeo buys poison from a poor apothecary and goes back to the Capulet, where he fights and kills Paris. Before Juliet wakes up

He was putting Juliet's life in danger and his life also. Then later that day Juliet is demanded to marry Count Paris or else she would get kicked out of her house, and would stop being in her parents´ lives. On the next day after Juliet is demanded to marry Count Paris, Paris himself goes and talks to Friar Laurence about the wedding that was getting near. Afterwards Juliet goes to Friar Laurence explaining the problem she was having about being forced to marry Count Paris, and she did not want to because she already had a husband which was Romeo. Friar Laurence then suggests that she should take a drug that made her go to sleep for 42 hours, on the night before she got married, and then she would appear to be dead and run away with Romeo. Later on, Friar Lawrence sends Friar John to Mantua to tell Romeo how it was gonna go down. But the message was never delivered correctly, and Romeo finds out the wrong information from Balthasar (Romeo's servant and trusted friend) that Juliet is dead. Romeo was deeply let down after finding out that the love of his life was. Romeo then goes and buys poison from Apothecary ( a poor, starving, skeletal man with massive eyebrows) in a little shop Apothecary owned. Romeo knew that if Apothecary sold him the poison and someone found out Apothecary could get put in prison, but still Romeo did not care and

When Juliet receives the vial of poison, she says, “Romeo, Romeo, Romeo / Here’s to drink I drink to thee” (4.3.58-59). When Juliet takes the potion, she shows a complete rebellion to her parents, making them think that she is dead, and fooling them to bury her in a tomb. She does this to not have to marry Paris, whom her parents want her to marry. These actions show that she is a dynamic character, as in the beginning of the play, she is obedient and does what is expected of her. Near the middle and end to the play, her devotion to Romeo increases, and her devotion to her family decreases, getting more and more extreme. At the end of the play, Juliet will not leave Romeo, and will instead die instead of living, being shown in this quote by Juliet. “Go, get thee hence, for I will not go away” (5.3.172). This means being completely devoted to Romeo, and feeling no necessity to stay for her family. Her taking the potion is also dramatic irony, as her parents think that she is dead, but Friar Lawrence has made it so she will wake up while she is in the

Juliet is still young when she is put into many adult situations. She is forced to make decisions, like wanting to marry, without having the education or experience to do so. Juliet is about to take a potion to make her look and act as if she were dead so then she does not have to marry Paris. Juliet does not want to marry