The Death of Romeo and Juliet A wedding is a joyful moment when families come together and celebrate the love between two people. Rarely, does a couple marry in secrecy and go as far as faking death to hide their love from their kinsmen. On even more rare accounts does the couple end their own lives, days after getting married. Unfortunately this was the case for the couple in William Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the play it is made clear that Romeo and Juliet are inseparable and madly in love. Unfortunately, the love between Romeo and Juliet is so strong and leads to both of their deaths. Even though many characters impact their deaths it is visible that two characters are most to blame. Sadly, Romeo and …show more content…
In act III, Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a sleeping potion so she can fake her death, then she is to be put in the Capulet tomb. However, Friar states that when she awakens he will be there to break her out. Unfortunately, when that time comes, the friar arrives too late. Instead her husband Romeo is dead beside her, leaving Juliet devastated. Friar Lawrence is anxious to get Juliet and himself out of the tomb in concern of getting caught. “Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay.”(V.2.159) Friar Lawrence is showing that he is unreliable when Juliet awakens and isn’t there to break her out along with leaving her alone in the tomb with Romeo. The message that Juliet had taken the sleeping potion never reached Romeo. Instead, Romeo was informed that Juliet was dead. He saw Juliet in the tomb unconscious and assuming she was dead took his own life. Juliet who was now alone and feeling as if there is not a simpler way out takes her own life. Friar Lawrence can be blamed for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. If Friar Lawrence told Romeo sooner about Juliet taking the potion and he had not left Juliet in the Capulet tomb, the young lovers lives would be
Beside Lord Capulet and Romeo, Friar Lawrence is also directly responsible for Juliet’s death. He makes not only one, but three major mistakes that all results in death of Juliet. To begin with he gives a potion to Juliet. At this time, Friar Lawrence is the only person that Juliet will fully trust, however, Friar Lawrence shows his irresponsibility by saying, “If…thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself…take thou this vial” (). In this circumstance, Friar’s plan is very risky for unstable Juliet. He decides to take risk rather than thinks for a better plan. Juliet’s fake death does fools all the people, however, Juliet will never lie on the monument if Friar Lawrence does not give Juliet the potion, and Juliet will not die at last. Next mistake that Friar Lawrence makes is he let Friar John to send the letter, who does not know how important the letter is. It is inexcusable to let someone else to do this urgent thing. Friar John shows his incompetence when he says “I could not send it, here it is again” (). The letter is one of the most crucial symbol in the play. To a certain extent, Friar John fails send the letter to Romeo foreshadow the play will have a tragedy ending. If Friar Lawrence delivers the letter by himself, the plan may proceed perfectly. The quotation
Who is most to blame for the deaths of two lovers? There have been many tragedies caused by romance. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a drama placed in Verona, Italy. It is known for two families, Montague and Capulets to be in a long standing feud. It is also known for the tragedy between two star-crossed lovers from the two households. After a series of tragic events, the two lovers commit suicide. There are several characters that can be responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, but the character that is most to blame is Friar Laurence. He was the one to help and influence them to be together and gave Juliet the potion leading to her death and Romeo’s. Friar Laurence is the most to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet for his thoughtless decisions.
I read the story of Romeo and Juliet and also watched the movies including them in it. I feel like whenever Juliet drank that drink to make her sleep and people thought she was dead that it wasn’t her fault for Romeo killing himself by drinking the poison. That wasn’t Juliet’s fault, someone should have told him that she were asleep instead of really thinking she was dead. Nothing would’ve ever happened if Romeo knew she drank something to make her sleep. Whenever Romeo drank the poison after seeing Juliet laying there she woke up to him killing himself so after he was dead she grabbed his dagger and stabbed herself and she died with him.
Romeo is to blame for Juliet’s and his own death, because when he was banned from Verona, he could have found someone else in Mantua.
Did you ever wonder what was the main reason for the deaths in Romeo & Juliet. This play is about Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare. The story started off with two families fuding. Romeo, one of the main characters, in love with another woman. He was later rejected by her, and then turned into a state of depression. His friend, Mercutio, decided that he should go to a party to get over the rejection. When Romeo arrived he looked for Rosaline, instead he found Juliet. Him and Juliet fell in love the same night, later they decided to get married. The next day they married, and Romeo went home to get ready to celebrate. On his way home Mercutio and Tybalt got into a fight causing Mercutio to die. Romeo killed Tybalt, then got banished. Juliet
The plan was, “...When you’re in bed, take this vial, mix its contents with liquor, and drink. Then a cold sleep-inducing drug will run through your veins, and your pulse will stop.” He goes on saying that Romeo will come and save her by digging her out of the tomb that her parents will put her in. Not only is this a very dangerous plan that could lead to having Juliet getting buried alive; but there are many flaws in this plan. One of the flaws that did end up happening was Romeo not getting the letter about the plan, which led to Romeo thinking that his Juliet is dead, and now he wants to be dead. If Friar Lawrence just came up with a less dangerous plan then the deaths of Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t have
In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, The ‘star-crossed lovers’ take their own lives in the name of love. Was it their own faults that they killed themselves or someone else's? There are three main characters to blame for their deaths; Fate, Lord Capulet and Friar Lawrence. Starting out with Fate, with the most evidence in the death of Romeo and Juliet.
In ¨The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet¨,there seems to be the question of who seems most responsible for the deaths in Romeo and Juliet? I’ve come to the idea that it is the prince, Escalus who caused or atleast could’ve stopped these deaths from ever starting to unfold. He was so anonymous of every problem happening and never took charge of the situation until it concluded. He had to ask of benvolio”who began this bloody fray” when Mercutio and Tybalt were dead. He never had men prepared of any casualties that could happen or any men on patrol so no fight broke out in the first place.
Although so many main characters die, could the ending of Romeo and Juliet be happy? The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a classic story that most people are aware of. The young love and suspense is an instant people pleaser. The ending makes everyone curious for more, but the amount of dead characters hangs the reader in a state of shock and sadness. I blame Romeo and Juliet, their parents, and society for the ‘tragedy’ of Romeo and Juliet.
Losing a close friend is always a very hard process. For me throughout this year losing my closest friend was very hard. Even though there is blame on both people since friendships require effort from both people, I understand Romeo’s rage and need for vengeance after losing Mercutio. Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare and is a story about forbidden love set in Verona, Italy in the 1500’s. Romeo falls in love with Juliet and marries her, and they’re very happy together until it’s all ruined over their families feud. Lives were taken and hearts were broken, leading to a tragic ending where the two lovers would rather take their own lives than not be together. Even though Romeo and Juliet killed themselves
Romeo should be blamed for his and Juliet’s death because he was impulsive and didn’t think before he acted. This is represented in the play in various forms. For instance, “Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.” (Rom. 2.1.1-2). This exemplifies that Romeo carelessly and impulsively leapt over the Capulet wall to go meet Juliet at night. He did not think of the dangers his actions could possess, but rather if he would be with Juliet. Another example of Romeo’s thoughtless behavior was when Romeo fought with Tybalt. “Either thou or I, or both, must go with him,” (Rom. 3.1.130). This shows that Romeo was ready to kill Tybalt or die doing it himself just to avenge
Let’s be honest people don’t fall in love overnight and even if they do that doesn’t mean that you should get married the next day and kill yourselves over it. Were these two lovesick people the reason of their own deaths? They did make there own decision to kill themselves that night, “What’s here? A cup, closed in my true love’s hand?/Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.—/O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop/To help me after? I will kiss thy lips./Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,/To make me die with a restorative.”(V.III.173-180).Juliet could have lived a long and happy life. She had other option other than marrying County Paris she could have ran away to start a new life without her parents controlling her every move. Romeo could have done the same, once he went to see the body he could have said his vows gave her a kiss and moved on with his life. It did not need to end his way, it may have seemed like all hope was lost once the other had died but life moves on and things get better. So maybe Romeo and Juliet made there own choices the night they killed themselves. They had many other options but they decided that they could not live without each other and being dead would be better than anything lie could have gave them. So Romeo and Juliet played a humongous part in their own
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, one of the most popular plays, Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers and the unhappy fate that befell them as a result of a long and bitter feud amongst the two households, the Capulets and the Montagues. The two star crossed lovers had their love for each other shattered when Romeo was exiled from Verona and was sentenced to death if he ever returned. Juliet was so distraught by this she wanted to end this madness between families and so she asked Friar Lawrence to fix this problem and so he invented a remedy to finish it but the remedy ended up killing the two lovers. Although it may seem that the Friar and other outside influences were to blame for the death of
The tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet has been renowned by critics for years, some consider this play to be the one of the greatest written romances. However, Romeo and Juliet were never truly in love. Love is an intense feeling of passion and affection, something that can easily be confused for infatuation and obsession. Romeo and Juliet made the conscious decision to commit suicide because they were infatuated with one another and therefore only they can be held accountable for their deaths, they were not emotionally prepared to have a mature relationship otherwise this story would not have ended tragically. Some may argue that other characters in the play are to blame, however there is no evidence of this being an accurate statement considering that no one forced Romeo and Juliet to commit suicide.
Romeo and Juliet takes place in a city called Verona, and tells of the feuding families of the Capulets and the Montagues. The story focuses on the love between two lovers from these families, Romeo and Juliet. They are young adults, forbidden to love each other by their families, and have to keep their love a secret. There are many people who are responsible for their deaths, but if there is one character in this play that is most responsible, it would be Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet. Capulet is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he refused to forget about the feud, didn’t remove Romeo from the Capulet party, and that he forced Juliet to marry a man she didn’t love so that he could have closer ties with the Royal Family.