Pardoned or Punished: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

    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.

Friar Laurence is responsible for the tragic, but avoidable, death of Romeo and Juliet. He went behind the two feuding families backs and developed a plan that killed the two lovers. To enact the plan, Friar Laurence willingly gave Juliet a vial of poison that helped her fake her death,“ Take thou this vial, being then in bed,/and this distilled liquor drink thou off” (IV.I. 93) and when she would awake from her slumber Romeo was supposed to be at her side, “Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift” (IV.I. 114) but Friar Laurence didn’t get the message to Romeo in time.

Friar Laurence had the greatest influence on Romeo and Juliet. The day after they met, the Friar married the couple, without parental consent. In this time period, parental consent was expected; the groom must ask the bride’s father’s permission. The Friar hopes to end the feud between the Capulets and Montagues by ignoring this rule and marrying the couple anyway. His plan of marriage fails at ending the feud and forces the Friar to devise more sneaky plans to hide his mistake. The issue is further complicated when Juliet is to be married to Paris promptly. The Friar’s very complex plan ensured that Juliet could not be married to Paris and that she could be together with Romeo. Juliet is the take a sleeping potion that makes her appear dead for fourty-two house/ The most important part of the plan is that Romeo, who is in Mantua, be informed to go to the tomb as Juliet wakes up. Friar Laurence doesn’t contact Romeo himself, so therefore the plan didn’t work. The Friar always intended to end the feud, but everything he did created a larger problem. The Friar’s good intentions lead to tragic results. Fate plays a major role because no matter how hard the Friar tried to make things better, they were destined to end poorly. At the end of the play the Friar realizes that the tragedy appears to be his fault, “I am the greatest, able to do the least, / Yet most suspected, as the time and place” (Rom. 5.3.223-224).

Not only was Juliet against getting married so young, she especially didn't want to be together with someone that she did not love. She tried to make her opinion about Paris known to her parents and she told them that she can not bring herself to marry him. But instead of backing up their daughter, taking her feelings into

Romeo, hours after meeting Juliet, ran down to the Friar’s chambers and asked him to marry him to Juliet (Document C). What other Friar would marry a couple that only knew each other for one hour. Romeo was impulsive because Juliet was attractive, but the Friar should've known better not to marry them. “For this alliance may happy prove, to turn your households’ rancor to pure love,” he said when Romeo convinced the Friar to marry them. The Friar was convicted to marry them thinking it would make the two families come together, but instead it caused even more chaos between the families. Second of all, he married Romeo and Juliet without anyone knowing about it. Their parents didn't even know. “So smile the heavens upon this holy act… When they kiss, they consulate the marriage,” he said as Juliet was walking into the church. But, the marriage led to Romeo killing Tybalt, for which he was banished for, and Juliet going against her parents and now not wanting to marry Paris. So after Juliet’s parents yelled at her and threatened her for not wanting to marry Paris, she immediately ran to Friar Lawrence’s chamber to try and find a way out of the wedding. The Friar said “And, if thou dearest, Ill give thee remedy,” meaning he'd find a solution to make sure Juliet does not marry Paris. Before the Friar said that, she said she’d kill herself if she had to marry Paris. The Friar was working on some potions, and said he'd created one to stage someone’s death. This means the potion makes you look dead, such as cold lips and being breathless, for two full days. So, once Friar gave Juliet the potion,

Within the play, Romeo, a young Montague boy, and Juliet, a youthful Capulet, meet at a party thrown by the Capulets. The two quickly fall in love, only finding out later that each belonged to a family that has been despised by their own family for years. Nonetheless, the two lovers continue to see each other after the party, and within the span of a day they have decided they want to get married. But for this to work, they both know

Juliet in Act 3 is defiant to what her parents say because they will not allow her to marry Romeo because he is a Montague. Juliet’s parents want her to marry Paris, but she does not want to marry Paris and is reluctant to marry him. Juliet asks Friar Laurence for the potion to fake her death so she does not have to marry Paris. In Act 4, Scene 1, Juliet shows that she does not like Paris outwardly. Juliet admits to Friar Laurence that she does not want to

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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a drama about two star-crossed lovers whose family feud thwarts their true love. Romeo, son of Lord Montague and Juliet, daughter of Lord Capulet have found love in each other, and their feelings only deepen as time goes on. Friar Lawrence, a holy man in Verona, is eager to end the feud by attempting to help Romeo and Juliet kindle their love, in spite of the dispute. However, he does not think about the consequences. Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet, is very adamant to have her marry Paris, and is hostile to the idea of her marrying someone else. Friar Lawrence’s ambition, Juliet’s love, and Capulet’s stubbornness lead to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

The play Romeo and Juliet is one of the most well known stories written by Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet is the story of two young people in love who can not be together. Their families, the Montagues and Capulets, have a long lasted feud and hatred for one another. Romeo and Juliet carry on together anyways and by the end of the story they are both dead. Although there are many other characters or forces in play that influence Romeo and Juliet to succumb to their tragic end, the parents bear the most responsibility in the ending of the play because of their feud with each one another and the pressure Juliet's parents put on her to get married to a man she does not love.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written by William Shakespeare. “Hatred and violence breed only tragedy”, is a major theme in this play. The Montague and Capulet are two rival families. They were involved in a family feud that goes back years before anyone can remember. However, the grudge still continues, due to the fact that both families are not ready to forgive and forget the past. The families’ ongoing quarrels and feud, lead to the deaths of several characters including the star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare, and it highlights a pair of starcrossed lovers named Romeo and Juliet in the city of Verona. Romeo is a Montague, and Juliet is a Capulet. This means they are not supposed to be together, for the Capulets and the Montagues are sworn enemies. Romeo and Juliet’s love is forbidden, and for most of the play only Friar Lawrence and Juliet’s nurse know about it. They meet when Romeo is let into a Capulet party where he sees Juliet, and he is captured by her beauty and grace. Less than twenty-four hours after they meet, Friar Lawrence marries the couple in secret. After the marriage, Romeo is exiled from Verona, for he fights Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin. Later, Juliet pretends to die, so she will not have to marry Paris—a man who Lord Capulet wants Juliet to marry.

Therefore it may look that way, but Juliet was going to have to marry Paris, kill herself, or get Friar to come up with a “Plan C.” Friar had given Juliet a potion that would make her sleep for 42 hours and it made her look dead. Friar sent a letter out to Romeo trying to explain all of this and it did not get to him as Friar John, who is the man who was supposed to send the letter to Romeo states that, “ I could not send it-here it is again- Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, so fearful were they of infection.” (Act 5, Scene 2, Line 13-16.) However, Friar tried to prevent the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, but Romeo didn't; he did not mind the fact of

Romeo and Juliet, the story of “two star-crossed lovers”, is a play written by Shakespeare. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare premeditated the different varieties of tensions associated with love throughout the course of the play. There is a tension between the two rival families; Montagues and Capulets, due to neither families wanting to forget the past, the expectation of Juliet to marry Paris and the constriction between the two main characters; Romeo and Juliet. Moreover, the tension between the Capulets and Montagues is immense.