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Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet

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True Love Doesn’t Die, Unfortunately People Do
“True love stories never have endings” (Richard Bach). Throughout history, the classic play The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, has been recreated many times. The play will most likely be recreated a million more. True love stories don’t ever die, unlike Romeo and Juliet themselves. However, this “tragic” ending isn’t entirely their fault. In The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, several other characters influenced Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, including Mercutio and Friar John, Friar Lawrence, and Lord Capulet.
Particularly, Mercutio and Friar John were involved largely with the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Mercutio …show more content…

Friar Lawrence had the idea that if he married Romeo and Juliet, he would bring peace between the Montagues and the Capulets. However, the marriage is kept a secret, and Lord Capulet still wants Juliet to marry Paris. Juliet believes that she has no other way to be with Romeo than to fake her death. “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor thou off, when presently through all veins shall run a cold and drowsy humour for no pulse shall keep his native progress but surcease: No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest; The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade, to paly ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall, like death, when he shuts up the day of life” (4.1.96-104). In order for Juliet to fake her death and be with Romeo, she needed help from Friar Lawrence. He gives her a potion that makes her seem dead for forty-two hours. The issue here is that Romeo wasn’t ever notified of this plan and the message wasn’t delivered to him. Romeo thought that Juliet was actually dead, and as a result, he decides to kill himself. When Juliet wakes up and realizes Romeo is dead, she kills herself successfully. If Friar Lawrence hadn’t married Romeo and Juliet, and had delivered Romeo the message himself, the suicides could have been avoided. As a result, Friar Lawrence has a partial blame in the deaths of Romeo and

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