The Three People Most Responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s Deaths Romeo and Juliet is a play that was written by William Shakespeare between the years of 1594 and 1596. Shakespeare based the plot of the play off of a poem called The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, which was written in 1592 by Arthur Brooke. Arthur Brooke based his poem off of a translated tale written by an Italian poet called Matteo Bandello (Britannica 2017). At the end of the play, Romeo commits suicide as he thinks that Juliet is dead. When Juliet finds out that Romeo has committed suicide, she also commits suicide. There were many people and events that led to Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. The three main contributing factors were the feud between the Capulets and …show more content…
Romeo was a Montague and Juliet was a Capulet and the families’ feud meant that the two could never be together. This is shown in this quote, “My only love sprung from my only hate! / Too early seen unknown, and known too late!’ (5.3.295-299). In this scene, Juliet complains about Romeo being a Montague. She wishes that he wasn’t so that they could freely be together. Also, both families and their servants would always pick fights on the streets of Verona. One of these fights would result in Romeo being banished from Verona. In a scene of the play, Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin decides to pick a fight with Romeo and his friend Mercutio in the middle of the street. Romeo tries to stop the fight because he is now related to Tybalt through his marriage to Juliet. This is shown in the following quote where Romeo tries to keep the peace, “Draw Benvolio, beat down their weapons. / Gentlemen, for shame! / ... / Forbid this bandying in Verona’s streets” (3.1.381-384), but no one listens to him and Tybalt ends up killing Mercutio. Romeo has no choice but to kill Tybalt for revenge which leads to the Prince banishing Romeo. Without the feud, Romeo and Juliet would not have had to keep their love a secret and, the fight that resulted in Romeo’s banishment would never have happened. This is why the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues is responsible for Romeo …show more content…
The Friar had good intentions when he married Romeo and Juliet, as shown in this quote, “For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households’ rancour to pure love” (2.4.91-92). In this quote, Friar Lawrence explains his reasoning behind marrying Romeo and Juliet, he thought that by marrying the two, he could stop the feud. This did not work as no one told the rest of the families and the Capulets tried to marry Juliet to Paris. The Friar also failed to get the letter to Romeo that would have told him that Juliet wasn’t dead. If Romeo had received this letter, he would not have committed suicide in Juliet's grave when he returned to Verona. Also, if the Friar had gotten to Juliet’s grave any earlier, he could have saved both Romeo and Juliet. The following quote is from the final scene of the play, “Miscarried by my fault, let my old life / Be sacrificed, some hour before this time, / unto the rigour of the severest law” (5.3.271-274). In this scene, the Friar admits the part that he played in Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. He volunteers himself to be punished for this, but the rest of the families and the Prince don't want to punish him. Although he meant well, Friar Lawrence’s actions resulted in the deaths of Romeo and
Although it is difficult to determine who or what is the most responsible for the tragic ending of Romeo and juliet, I believe that the eternal feud between the Montagues and Capulets that prohibits the love of Romeo and Juliet is what can be blamed most for their unfortunate deaths.
No one ever truly does wrong unless they are wronged by others. It can happen in any way shape or form. The most usual cases are if you’ve been bullied or abused. It could also be a corruption of the mind at a young age. Or maybe there was never anyone there to explain to you what was right and wrong. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows that these three people are responsible for the deaths of the titular characters: Tybalt, Friar Laurence, and Romeo himself.
Romeo and Juliet is a play made by William Shakespeare in the time of the renaissance. A story of a young boy and girl, a tragic love story. Romeo lived in the fair city of Verona where he was of the montague family with the rival family the Capulets. Romeo and his cousin Benvolio one day were approached by a servant asking if they could read and tell him who is on a party list and he handed them the list Romeo's friend Mercutio was on the list. He told the servant what he needed to know and went on his way, later Romeo and Benvolio go to the capulet party with their friend mercutio. Romeo during the start of the party was depressed because his crush rosaline didn't like him, but then he saw Juliet of the capulet house. Romeo and Juliet kissed twice at the party, and afterwards talked in the capulet garden. They agreed to get married the following day. After the marriage Romeo went to find benvolio and mercutio and tell them of the news. He stumbled upon the fight between mercutio and tybalt Juliet’s cousin. Romeo tried to stop the fight but only ended up getting his friend hurt and killed. Romeo then killed tybalt for the murder of his friend. Romeo was then exiled. Juliet heard of the sentence and attempted to kill herself. she was presented with a plan that would help her to run away with Romeo. Juliet then faked her death, and Romeo got word she was
Friar Lawrence plays a big part in causing the death of Romeo and Juliet because he secretly marries them knowing something either negative or positive will happen. Friar even tells Romeo the cautions for he says 'Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.' (Act II Scene III 97) Friar marries them because he thinks that the marriage is going to end the feud between the families of Romeo and Juliet. He knows that even though Romeo and Juliet are in love they will never be able to see each other. Not in a grave to lay one in, another out to have” (Act II scene III 85) Also, if Friar Lawrence did not give Juliet the potion that she was going to use to deceive her family into thinking she was dead to get out of her marriage to Paris and make Romeo aware of what was going to happen, their deaths would not have occurred. Romeo goes to the tomb thinking Juliet is really dead after Balthasar accidently informed him of Juliet’s apparent death not knowing of her plan. If he had stayed there longer without taking the poison he had obtained from Apothecary they both would not have killed themselves. He brought the poison to the tomb to end his own life next to Juliet after seeing for himself if she was really dead. Romeo did not want to live without Juliet.
Romantic love stories are often ended with a tragedy, because of loss of passion or a loved one. These tragedies are often the result of one person’s actions that ended someone’s life or love. In the Romeo and Juliet play written by William Shakespeare, two citizens of Verona come together and fall deeply in love. Unfortunately their love comes to an end, along with their lives, because of a misunderstanding and a persistent feud between their families. Although there are many characters in this play that have contributed to Romeo and Juliet’s death, Friar Laurence is the person most to blame.
Finally, the feud is the reason that Romeo dueled and then received banishment. In scene 3.1, Tybalt automatically declares Romeo an enemy because he is a Montague and wants to fight him. “Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries / That thou hast done to me: therefore turn and draw” (65-66). In the Verona streets, Mercutio dies from battling Tybalt. Which leads to Romeo killing Tybalt out of anger. The Prince comes to the ruckus and Romeo is punished. The Prince declares Romeo is banished from Verona:
First and foremost, the play The Tragedy Romeo and Juliet was written in the sixteenth century by a man, William Shakespeare. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, the star-cross lovers, follows their fate that lends to taking their own life. Juliet and Romeo are the forbidden love story about meeting, falling in love, marriage and the tragic end, all in the time period three days; it's an intense love between Romeo and Juliet and the hatred between the two families. Unfortunately, Romeo belongs to the Montagues and Juliet belongs to the Capulets. At the tragic end the family's feuds comes to an end.
Friar Lawrence, who secretly marries Romeo and Juliet, has good intentions at first because he wants to stop the feud between the families. He thinks the families, once they find out that their children are married, will see past their feud and make amends to each other. We see this hope of Friar Lawrence in Act 2, when he says, ”In one respect I’ll thy assistant be,/For this alliance may so happy prove./ To turn your households' rancor to pure love. ”(2.3.90-92). However, his involvement with Romeo and Juliet's love actually causes negative consequences to himself, especially regarding his morality.
Their feud had been going on for such a long time that the prince threatened to kill them if they started another fight in the streets of Verona. Their love also affected their families. One day, after Romeo and Juliet had gotten married, the Capulets wanted to start a fight with Romeo and Mercutio. Romeo wouldn't fight them because he considered them to be a part of his family and he didn't want to hurt any of Juliet's family either so Mercutio stepped in to fight Tybalt and was killed by him.
A long standing feud between two family the Capulets and the Montague. Even though Romeo and Juliet did not care about the feud, their cousins did. As Mercutio was in Verona's square, he met Tybalt and started some swordplay. Sadly, in Romeo's attempt to make them stop, Mercutio was mortally wounded. Romeos realizes that he had been too soft, so he kills Tybalt, his cousin. This act of killing Tybalt not only banished Romeo, but set into motion
Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare around 1594. The play Romeo and Juliet is about two start crossed lovers who were born into a world with an ‘ancient grudge’. This automatically leads to Romeo and Juliet’s death. This sorrowful play was performed in Globe Theatre as there was large number of people who entirely wanted to watch this interesting play immediately. According to the play it contains a strong violent, and conflict, however Shakespeare uses conflict in different ways throughout the play, he uses to reflect on how woman were treated back in the Elizabethan period, how the marriage partner was chosen by father and how many were expected to obey the man. Additionally, this play
For many years, Romeo and Juliet are known as a classic love story, but in reality it’s filled with distress. Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare in 1599 and this piece of literature was well known by everyone. This story focuses on many events that eventually lead up to the main character deaths. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s uses symbolism to reveal the fate of the two lovers. In doing so, Shakespeare reveals that if the conflict between two families, Capulet and Montague continues then Romeo and Juliet will take their own life to be with one another which will result in death.
Friar interfered too much with Romeo and Juliet’s love life and family problems. He had gotten them married without the consent of their parents, he didn’t think before making a decision. He didn’t think the Romeo and Juliet are still kids who don’t know anything about love. Friar just thought it will resolve the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. But it was actually making the situations between the families worse. Friar was also giving bad advice, as he did when he made a plan to stop the marriage of Juliet and Paris when Juliet was being forced to marry Paris, without informing Romeo properly about the fake death therefore his plan had failed. In the play Friar had said “Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate an execution as that is desperate which we would prevent. If, rather than to marry County Paris” (Act 4. Scene 1. Lines 70-73). In this quotation Friar was responsible for telling Romeo about the plan which he had failed to accomplish; this one mistake had made matters worse leading towards Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. Friar always thinks he has a solution to every plan just to stop the riot between the Montague’s and Capulet’s when he actually does not have a solution for every problem. As Friar interfered within the families of Romeo and Juliet, he had cause many issues and problems. Therefore, Friar was responsible for the deaths of the two lovers Romeo and
Romeo and Juliet was a revolutionary production written and performed by the playwright William Shakespeare in 1594. The play tells the story of two star- crossed lovers of which completely fall for each other at first glance, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The Montague and Capulet family have been at a long-time rivalry of which ultimately results and the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. The sense of tragedy is evident in that fact that both deaths could have been avoided, everything bad that happens, happens as a result of all the characters decisions. Even the small role of the apothecary has a large impact on the entire outcome, if he had decided to say no to Romeo, the deaths of Romeo and Juliet could have been avoided. The heroes of the story are accountable for their own unhappiness and misfortune. Their individual decisions lead to a chain reaction of unfortunate events that create the sense of tragedy and when the play is close to its end Romeo realises that he is what caused the horrible events to unfold.
Romeo and Juliet is a play written around 1597 by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet is tragedy about two young, star-crossed lovers who are from rival families. They instantly fall in love at first sight before knowing which family they come from. In less than twenty-four hours, the lovers are married. Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, saw Romeo at the Capulet ball and he was furious and seek revenge. After Romeo and Juliet were married Tybalt approached Romeo, Romeo tried to make peace, but he gave in and fought Tybalt. Romeo killed him and was therefore, banished from Verona. Seeks Friar Lawrence's help, he moves to Mantua and Juliet’s parents were forcing her to marry Count Paris. She then seeks help from the Friar who gives her a potion which will make it seem as if she was dead. Romeo hears and rushes to Verona were he finds Juliet ‘allegedly’ dead. He then kills himself next to her and she wakes up to see him dead and she then kills herself. After the two are dead the Friar explains what has happened and the families are no longer rivals.