Pardoned In Romeo And Juliet

First of all, Romeo has a tendency to be fickle. He is stricken with grief because the lady he loved had turned him away. However, the moment he laid eyes on Juliet, this all seemed to go away, with him saying “Did my heart love till now?” (I.V 59). If it weren’t for his behavior and sudden change of mind then the whole situation will have not of taken place. Romeo’s fickle nature added to his responsibility and should be held accountable

But perhaps his decision to marry Juliet in the first place was a bad one. He knew that they had known each other for less than a day and had not seen any sign of their devotion to each other but he still decided to marry them. That was a bad decision on his behalf.

    The play Romeo and Juliet  is a romantic tragedy written by William Shakespeare about two star-crossed lovers from feuding families who die at the end of the story. Romeo and Juliet meet at Capulet party and instantly fall in love. With the help of the local friar, Friar Lawrence, and Juliet’s nurse, they get married after knowing each other only a day, without their parents’ consent. Shortly after the marriage, Romeo is banished for fighting and killing Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, forcing him to leave their city of Verona. At the same time, Juliet's father, Lord Capulet, tells her she has to marry Paris, a cousin to the Prince, or else he will kick her out of their home. Friar Lawrence comes up with a plan in which Juliet will take a sleeping potion which makes her look dead for 42 hours and then Romeo will come to Verona to get her and take her away with him to a city a day's ride away. Romeo does not receive the message that Juliet really isn't dead and believes her death to be true. He gets poison from a poor apothecary and dies beside Juliet in the Capulet tomb. Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead beside her, along with Friar Lawrence who came to try and stop Romeo. Juliet refuses to leave and kills herself to be with him. After their deaths, the Prince declares that, “Some shall be pardoned, and some punished” (Shakespeare ???).  The characters in the play that should be pardoned are Friar Lawrence, Lord Montague, and the Nurse.

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.

“ Romeo should have just minded his own gosh darn business instead of making more messes. Romeo was the last thing on juliet’s mind before she drank the potion friar gave her. Act 4 scene 3 juliet says, “ romeo, i come! This do i drink to thee.” Instead of romeo going and talking to friar lawrence about juliet’s “death” and what happened and then letting friar explain his and juliet’s plan to him he went to the apothecary which is basically a drug dealer to get poison to kill himself. Act 5 scene 1 romeo says, “come, cordial and not poison, go with me to juliet’s grave; for there i must use thee.” Romeo shouldn’t have killed paris he should have just talked to him because either way he was going to die but instead he fought and killed him. Act 5 scene 3 paris said, “o, i am slain’ (falls) if thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with juliet.” Rome does the last and most stupidest choice ever he kills himself. Act 5 scene 3 romeo says, “ here’s to my love! (drinks) o true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick.Thus with a kiss i die.”

Fate is something that Romeo and Juliet can not escape in the play no matter how hard they try.When talking about Fate in the story the stars are referenced by the characters to explain coincidences that may happen to them . Shakespeare makes the fate of the star-cross’d lovers story clear from the very beginning by stating in the prologue of Act I “The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love”. (DBQ:Project, 2013) When both characters discover the others death, even if it is at different times they both decide to blame Fate. Romeo references the stars once again because he did not want to believe that a higher power/Fate would take Juliet away from him. Juliet looks to Friar Lawrence to know Romeo is dead and he tells Juliet “A greater power than we can contradict”. (DBQ:Project, 2013) He led Juliet to believe that Fate was also to blame for her husband Romeo’s death. Fate was not one of the characters that caused as much harm as the other two, but was the most blameable character for others in the play.

The most blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is fate. In the prologue, it says, “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life…” (Doc A). “Starcross’d” means that it is destined Romeo and Juliet are not to be together. Their love is cursed by fate to end in tragedy. The prologue also says “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes…” (Doc A). In Shakespeare’s

Fate is responsible as throughout the story the lovers did not have much luck. In the Capulet tomb, before Romeo kills himself, he says to Juliet” “A grave? Oh, no. A lantern, slaughtered youth/ for here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes/ this vault a feasting presence full of light/…Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die/” (5.3.91-123). This quote summarizes Romeo and Juliet’s bad fate that they had all throughout this tragedy as all their bad fate leads to the death of the star-crossed lovers. Their bad fate was a result of many quick and unintelligent decisions made by many characters, such as Friar Lawrence’s decision to give Juliet the sleeping potion and Romeo’s decision to stab Tybalt. Therefore fate is also a big cause of Romeo and Juliet’s death as it portrays that individuals who make unintelligent decisions will have bad fate

The decisions that Lord Capulet made impacted Romeo and Juliet's decisions and led to their suicides. Lord Capulet arranging his daughter marriage led to Romeo and Juliet's into committing their suicides. In the beginning of the play, Paris, the prince cousin wanted to marry Juliet. Lord Capulet told him that he dad to woo her and that if he did he can marry her. But then Lord Capulet changed his mind. “ Monday, ha ha! Well,

People do not always realize the effects of their decisions on other people. In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, there are many characters that make some bad decisions that change the outcome of the play and could be responsible for the outcome, but the one character is is most responsible is Romeo. Romeo is the character most to blame for the tragic events in Romeo and Juliet because he went uninvited to the Capulets party, killed Tybalt, and rashly killed himself. Romeo is the most to blame for the events that occur in Romeo and Juliet because he went to the Capulets party uninvited. In 1.5, Lord Capulet hosted a party at his house.

The individuals fully accountable for the shortcomings and misfortunes in the play are Romeo and Juliet, the nurse, and Friar Lawrence. Romeo and Juliet contribute the most to their own demise because they are foolish, rash, and immature. In the beginning of the play, in Act 1, scene 2, Romeo exhibits his foolishness when he agrees to go with Benvolio to the Capulet party. He is fully aware that the two families are feuding. Yet he still agrees to go as he will see Rosaline, whom he thinks he is in love with.

In the story of romeo and juliet the character decisions affect most of the story. If a character is under pressure of stressed for example it may affect their decision making as it would if they were calm and happy. Most of the characters fait was within the decisions they made not bad luck. However, it is not always the one character that is the cause of the problem.

One way in which poor decisions affect the outcome of Romeo and Juliet is Romeos inability to choose the right choice. Romeos really in love with the idea of love not in love itself. This is apparent when he first meets Juliet; he just had his heart broken by another girl. To satisfy “love” he will not do anything in the logical simple way, why didn't he go to ask Capulet to court his daughter? Did he have to sneak under her balcony the first night? Would the families have kept them apart if he had approached them? Romeo needs to fulfill the fairytale he has formed around the word love. Romeo believes that what should happen will happen, he loves Juliet they should get married. That decision alone had a large part in their ends as it

Romeo and Juliet’s immaturity when it comes to their relationship and their hasty decision making lead to their tragic deaths. The young couple was naive and foolish in thinking that they could marry one another without their parent’s knowledge or consent. This ignorance lead to their tragic downfall with its inevitable complications. For example, Capulet assumed that Juliet would marry Paris, but he was unaware that she was already married. This arrangement between Capulet and Paris lead to Juliet faking her death, which was a direct cause of the couple’s downfall. Another way Romeo and Juliet’s immaturity impacts the play is through their hasty decision making. Romeo and Juliet’s judgment is often clouded by their attraction for one another, which puts their true feelings for each other in question. Perhaps

     Likewise Juliet also made some irrational decisions. It was fate when Juliet was outside thinking on her balcony, and Romeo happened to be strolling outside also. One example of her irrational decisions was when Romeo was wooing her, she could have resisted, but she didn’t. And on the balcony scene, Juliet constantly questioned his love for her, and rushed him into marriage, by saying things like, “If thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,” (II, ii, 143& 144). And when Romeo sends for her to marry him, she didn’t have to shown up, yet she chose to. Later on, when she was engaged to Paris she could have been honest with her parents and told them about Romeo. They might not have liked it, but at least then, her and Romeo would be alive. Juliet could have also of made the choice of going to