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Romeo And Juliet's Death

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Imagine yourself in the Elizabethan era. You want to marry the man/woman that you love but cannot due to the fact that your families have a deep hatred for each other. So you turn to the man that you have trusted for a very long time, who helps you in or out of any situation, but this time makes all the wrong decisions just when you need him to make the right ones, thus he endangers your relationship with your new husband/wife and even your lives. Good afternoon/morning students, teachers and judges. I have investigated the various possible causes of the tragic death of the lovers in William Shakespeare’s, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and have been given the task of determining the cause of death, not only what killed them but who. The person I believe …show more content…

While he is optimistic about the match, it is later evident that the Friar doubts the suitability of the match. We can see his doubts expressed in Act 2 Scene 6 “So smile the heavens upon this holy act, that after hours with sorrow chide us not!” In other words, he is saying that he hopes the heavens, or God, will approve of this secret union. Now many of you may believe that Romeo is responsible for both his own demise and Juliet’s death, as he was “too young and naïve to get married” and “brought all of this drama upon himself”, now, this is correct, heck even the Friar believed that, and being the responsible adult of the story you would have thought he would disagree with the marriage as he knew that their love was just intense passion or an infatuation that was likely to end. This is supported by his quote also from Act 2 Scene 6, "These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder". Let’s face it, we all saw the unhappy ending coming, so why couldn’t he? However the Friar was very foolish and decided to marry the couple despite his …show more content…

Had Juliet not already been married when her father insisted that she marry Paris, Friar Laurence would not have also made the decision to fake Juliet's death in order to help her out of the mess, a decision that leads to Juliet's real death, as well as Romeo's. Had Friar Lawrence explained his perfectly legal involvement in her marriage to the Capulet Family, Juliet may still have been disowned by her father, but she would have also been reunited with Romeo in Mantua, which was in fact the ultimate goal. But of course Friar Lawrence went with the Make-Her-Family-Think-She’s-Dead-But-Really-Isn’t method. One passage proving that Friar Laurence's act of deception failed, was when he says to Juliet in the tomb, "A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our intents" (5.3.165). The "greater power" can be interpreted as God who was displeased with the Friar's choices and, therefore, prevented them from being

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