Romeo And Juliet Pros And Cons

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

The potion was able to have Juliet fake her death for forty-two hours and place her into a catatonic state. Juliet took this potion so she could get away with not having to marry Paris. According to act 4 scene 4 and 5, the nurse was the one to find Juliet deceased in her bed and is the one to tell Juliet's parents. When Romeo caught the wind with this tragedy he discovered that he couldn’t live his life without Juliet so he ended up killing himself. Friar Lawrence was to blame for this because the potion wasn’t necessary, Juliet could have stuck up for herself and decide that she didn’t want to marry Paris now. This is the second reason why Friar Lawrence is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and

Usually, elaborate and complicated plans do not turn out the way that they are supposed to, especially in this scenario. Later in the play, Romeo is banished from Verona for killing Tybalt. Friar Lawrence tries to help the young lovers using a potion, “ a thing like death to chide away this shame, that cop’st with death himself to ‘scape from it...And if thou dearest, I’ll give thee remedy.” (183). This potion would make Juliet appear dead for 42 hours, and then she would arise. Giving an almost deadly potion to a 14-year old does not seem like a responsible measure to take. Friar thinks that when Paris sees Juliet dead, he will stop pursuing Juliet for once and Juliet will stay loyal to Romeo. Friar sends a “letter was not nice but full of charge of dear import, and neglecting it may do much danger.” (219). This letter includes the potion plot and what Friar’s intentions were. Unfortunately, Romeo never receives this letter and never gets to know that Juliet will stay loyal to Romeo,

Friar didn’t want to have to marry Juliet to two people as that would be against the law. So, Friar then gave Juliet a sleeping potion where she was supposed to be asleep for 42 hours. This plan lead her family into great devastation. Friar knew that it was wrong to give Juliet the potion, but he thought that if he didn't she would proceed to kill herself right there in his cell. "If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, Then it is likely thou wilt undertake A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to scape from it: And, if thou darest, I’ll give you thee remedy” (Shakespeare 453). Because Friar gave Juliet the sleeping potion he had to keep up his end of the deal by letting Romeo know the

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 of all the potion could have accidentally been the wrong thing and she could have been poisoned and killed right there. Second the Friar had Juliet drink the potion before Romeo knew about the plan. The Friar is a man of God and he had Juliet break the law and fake her own death. The Friar’s last fault in the story was that he did not wait for the letter to get to Romeo before telling Juliet to drink the potion.

This is another reason that Friar Lawrence is to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet. If Friar Lawrence did not give Juliet the potion in the first place and just told her to marry Paris and be happy with him, then the whole mess would of not started in the first place. “Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, Then is it likely thou wilt undertake A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to scape from it: And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.” (IV.I.34-41) This is the scene where Friar Lawrence gave Juliet the potion to fake her death and nobody would have died and everyone would just be

Friar feels bad for the couple, and while that's ok, he should have left it alone. Chances are, Romeo and Juliet could have in love later in life if Friar hadn't of thought of a plan. They are only 13 and have many more years to fall in love ahead of them. Accept, Friar says that he will give Juliet a potion to make her look dead and when she wakes, Romeo and himself will be waiting for her and they will live “happily ever after”. This plan is just thrown out and should be given more thought, but Friar decides to put it into action because it prevents Romeo from killing himself “ How well my comfort is revived by this!”(3.3.165). Romeo is happy, but little does he know, everything will go

Friar wanted to fake the death of Juliet so she did not have to marry Paris and Romeo to come and bring her with him. Friar first of all did not have to make the plan at all his job was to marry them and he did he can get out of the situation now. He decides to stay and makes this sleeping potion for Juliet to drink. Friar did not have to do this and if he did not it would have been for sure that Juliet did not die. If Friar would have told Romeo about the plan it would of stopped their deaths also because then Romeo would have known that Juliet was sleeping and not dead.

From the time she drank the potion, the next 42 hours Friar Lawrence was to make sure that she was laid in the tomb in time for her to wake up. He intended to have Romeo back in time to rescue Juliet and they would run off and live together somewhere away from Verona, Friar Lawrence failed this plan because the letter that was supposed to be sent to Romeo about the plan for him and Juliet, but the letter never got delivered. So Romeo heard from a friend that Juliet had died and Romeo rushed back to Verona and the time for the potion was not up yet so it still looked like Juliet was dead. Also, Friar Lawrence knew what the consequences would be if the Capulets and Montagues were to find out about Romeo and Juliet and he still allowed them to

But Romeo and Juliet had such great love for one another that they had to go to great measures to be with each other.  When Juliet was confronted by Friar with the potion she did not think about it at all, she wanted it right away.  (Friar) “hold daughter. I do spy a kind of hope,”(Act 4 scene 1 line 68).  Friar is saying this because he found Juliet a different path other than marrying Paris.  Friar would be my second choice because of all he supposedly did for Juliet. I am surprised that she was able to not think about what could happen negatively to her.  Most people wouldn't think of it this way, but Friar could have been giving her this potion to kill her so he would not be held accountable for marrying them together.  Some people are willing to do more evil things to resist consequences.  (Friar) “Hold,then. Go home,be merry, give consent to marry Paris.”(Act 4 scene 1 line

His idea was to have her fake her death by taking a potion that is most likely not very well tested. Just taking the potion had the potential to kill Juliet which shows his flawed ways of thinking. His plan could have, and did, go wrong in so many ways, that it is astonishing that Juliet failed to prevent his plan from actually happening. Finally instead of helping Juliet deal with her grief over losing Romeo and prevent her from killing herself, he fled when he heard the guards approach, repeatedly saying “I dare no longer stay” (V.3.) and he could have prevented Juliet from killing herself. If the Friar had thought his advice all the way through, he could have saved Romeo and Juliet’s

When Juliet’s lover, Romeo is banished, and her parents ask her to marry Paris, she doesn’t choose to tell her parents and Paris that she is already married, but accept Friar’s advice of pretending to be dead in front of her parents and fiance, leave her family and go find her own love. She doesn’t take her responsibility as a daughter, leaving her parents in the big empty house, missing her and weeping for her. She also lets her fiance down. This irresponsible decision, which she only thinks about her own love, leads to Romeo and her death, and Friar Lawrence is also to blame for this. Not only does Friar advise Juliet to take the potion, he also runs away after he finds Romeo and Paris dead in the tomb.

Once Romeo left Verona, Juliet’s parents decided she was to marry Count Paris. Juliet went to Friar Lawrence asking for help and advice, he gave Juliet a very complicated plan to try and escape the marriage. Juliet took a potion that Friar gave her before the wedding, the potion made it seem like she was dead, but she was only in a deep sleep. Her family, actually thinking she was dead, had a funeral and put her in the Capulet tomb. Friar was supposed to get the plan to Romeo so he could get Juliet from the tomb and leave for Mantua for them to live together once she woke up, but Friar’s plan did not work.

The 1968 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is beautiful because of the music, medieval architechture and landscape of Romeo. Overall, this positive intention has a negitive impact on me since the charcters were to inexperienced and emotionally imature. Therefore this movie with high potientcial is medicore.