In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is one of the main characters. I have learned that she is quite rash and bold and that she falls in love quickly. Juliet doesn’t really change throughout the play.I would not consider doing what Juliet does in the friar’s plan .The friar’s plan for Juliet had a chance to work in the beginning, but due to the unfortunate circumstances it doesn’t work out. Throughout the play of Romeo and Juliet, I have learned several things about Juliet. During the play she is quite rash and bold. She made big choices and didn’t really bother thinking about the consequences. She made some choices, though about them, but still made bad choices in the end. She also falls in love very quickly. Juliet fell in love with romeo really quickly. After meeting him, talking to him, and kissing him she was so in love with him that she wanted to get married to him and would be willing to do some crazy things for him. Juliet barely knew Romeo and Friar Lawrence married the two secretly hoping that it would end the feud between the two families. After Romeo got banished, Juliet was willing to do some very crazy things to be with Romeo and in the end she agreed to do the friar’s plan. Friar Lawrence’s plan for Juliet could have easily succeeded. The plan was fairly good and looked like it would work. Unfortunately Romeo did not receive from the friar’s friend due to the plague. After that happened the plan just fell apart. Friar Lawrence tried to bring Juliet to his cell until he could figure out what to do after that. Romeo had a different plan though, he was going to kill himself next to where Juliet was dead. Romeo beat the friar to juliet’s tomb and he killed himself before the friar got there. If things didn’t happen the... ... middle of paper ... ...e end she kills herself because she can’t picture being without Romeo even though if she had went with the friar, she probably would have gotten over the fact she didn’t have Romeo with her, because she hopefully would have realised that she barely knew him Personally I wouldn’t do Friar Lawrence’s plan. Risking your life for someone you barely know just to have a chance to be with them isn’t a very good idea. You could always lose your life trying or find out they aren’t the one for you. In the end Juliet died after going through with the friar’s plan so it isn’t really a good idea. Juliet doesn’t tend to make very good choices.Probably because she doesn’t make decisions very often and she is a teen. She didn’t make a very good choice going ahead with the friar’s plan but these bad choices are an essential part of the play. Works Cited Romeo and Juliet book
An if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy." The Friar comes up with the plan for Juliet to be happy and be with Romeo. This shows that the Friar is once again always trying to make other people happy, which is a quality of a hero. Shakespeare utilizes the literary device dramatic irony in this part of the play when the Friar saves Juliet. When Juliet threatens to kill herself with her dagger because she cannot be with Romeo, she does not realize that this will happen at the end of the play. The audience knows that she will eventually slay herself with her dagger but Juliet and the Friar do not. So the friar needs to save her. In Act Four scene One Juliet says" Friar, unless you can tell me how to prevent it. If you who are so wise can’t help, please be kind enough to call my solution wise. And I’ll solve the problem now with this knife. God joined my heart to Romeo’s. You joined our hands. And before I—who was married to Romeo by you—am married to another man, I’ll kill myself. " Again, The friar helping and saving Juliet makes him a
Juliet is conflicted about her feelings about Romeo once she hears that he had killed Tybalt. She is conflicted with her feelings towards describing Romeo as a, “A damned saint, an honorable villain!”(3.2.79). Her description of Romeo shows that she sees him as a good person who seems to make bad decisions and actions. Juliet sides with Romeo in her confusion, “My husband lives, that Tybalt would have
Romeo and Juliet make secretive and misguided decisions which,in the end lead to their tragic death after the capulet party ,Romeo went to go see Juliet .During the balcony scene Romeo asks “Th’exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine” Juliet gladly responds with “I gave thee mine before thou didst request it”(2.2’127-128).Romeo went to see Juliet without even thinking he could be killed.Juliet tried to tell him that but he was so lost in
Romeo, as a young adolescence, your brain is not fully developed, which may lead to regretful decisions. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, teens have a “tendency to act on impulse -without regard for risk.” Therefore, you may not see how irrational this idea is; although, you will when it is too late. Also, Friar Lawrence has devised a plan that reunites you and your Juliet. His plan is to fake Juliet’s death, steal her away in the night, and hide the two of you from your families so that you may live happily ever after. When you die in a matter of hours, Friar explains to both houses how the plan went wrong starting with how he gave Juliet a sleeping potion and he claims he, “intended for it wrought on her the form of death.” He continues to say, “Meantime I writ to Romeo that he should hither come as this dire night to help to take her from her borrowed grave.” Finally he pleas that, “Friar John was stayed by accident, and yesternight returned my letter back.” In my ghostly form, I witnessed him explain the unfolding of these events. Take it from me that making this impulsive decision is unwise and will only ruin Friar’s plan. In addition, poor Juliet is unfortunate enough to awaken to your
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is very different from his other works of tragedies. The reason being is because in this play there is not a distinct hero. Generally, the hero is expected to be the romantic, the lover boy, Romeo. Though, Romeo, having the background he that he has, doesn’t exactly qualify for the position of the hero. Sudden emotive outburst, lustful determination, misfortunate bloodshed, and idiotic behavior are not the ways of a hero, making Romeo a weak candidate. Juliet, on the hand, demonstrates more innocence than Romeo. She appears to have more understanding of moral ethics and carries an unblemished personality.
Friar Lawrence was trying to fix the problematic situation that they were in with a plan that could potentially bring Romeo and Juliet together again. This ‘remedy’, however, seemed to result in the suicides of the ‘star crossed lovers’. The comparison of ‘marrying County Paris’ and ‘undertaking a thing like death’ that Friar Lawrence gives shows his thinking. Friar Lawrence seemed to be convinced so much that Juliet must be with Romeo that he thought of a plan – any plan to get them together again. At the scene of Juliet mourning over Romeo, Friar Lawrence quickly enters the Capulet Monument, however, just as quickly, leaves the monument
In the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo plays the role of the tragic hero. In the play Romeo is an extremely impulsive individual. and makes his decisions without considering the consequences. Romeo makes terrible decisions that end up killing him. What Romeo Failed to see is that every decision he made had an even worse reaction.
Failing to uphold his end of the plan, causing the plan to fail and resulting with both Romeo and Juliet dying. Friar Laurence admits to being responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence made a huge mistake that he could have avoided himself, if only he had thought out his plan better. He trusted Juliet an unstable fourteen-year-old with a potion to make her appear dead just so she would not have to marry Paris. Resulting in the death of herself, Friar Lawrence had even said, "If…thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself…take thou this vial…no warmth, no breath shall testify the livest." He should have been more careful, Friar Laurence's idea for Juliet was very risky and because of his own ignorance has ended up in tragedy. He also admits that he left the tomb and left Juliet there. The Friar knew that Juliet had previously threatened to kill herself, yet he still abandoned her with Romeo's knife. If the Friar truly cared about her safety, he would have forced her to come with him or stayed to prevent her from making any irresponsible
Friar Laurence's immature actions made him part of the tragedy. For one, he married Romeo and Juliet. When told that Romeo loves Juliet, Friar replies, "Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here! Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies not truly in the hearts, but in their eyes," (II, III, lines 66-69).
In the play Romeo makes bad decisions like, going to the party, Falling in love with Juliet too soon, and Killing himself young. First off Romeo deciding to go to the party. Romeo
He tried to please everyone so nobody would point a finger towards him. He gave Juliet the potion even when he knew it could kill her, either way he would be safe. If Juliet died there would be no sign that is was his fault… nobody would find out about how he secretly married Romeo and Juliet. Also, if the plan worked Juliet and Romeo would be happy and thankful for the Friar. He let Juliet take the potion even when he knew the risk, “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 cop’st with death himself to scape from it; And, if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy,” (Shakespeare 452). He was only ever out for himself in the
With all the conflict arising between Juliet’s family, Friar Lawrence creates a plan that unfortunately does not succeed. His plan for Juliet is to tell her father she will marry Paris, then go to bed with no one, not even the nurse. After, she will drink a potion to make her seem dead for forty two hours and then have a messenger tell Romeo about it. He will have her put in a vault to wait for Friar to bring her out so she and Romeo can elope. The plan was perfect until tragedy occurs, Benvolio sees Juliet dead and immediately tells Romeo about it.
Juliet talks about how she doesn’t want to make any sudden decisions about her relationship with Romeo; “It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden”(17), however throughout the play she goes back on her word and does just that. Early on,
When Juliet hears after marrying Romeo that she must be married to Paris, a count, in two days, she rushes to Friar Laurence’s cell to speak of her sorrow. When Friar Laurence hears of how Juliet wishes to die if he cannot fix the problem, Friar Laurence says that he can help her if she has “the strength of will to slay [her]self” (4.1.73). This shows that Friar Laurence is again not worried about Juliet herself and her safety, but about what he can do to reconcile her family and Romeo’s. He offers this proposition when he already knows Juliet is willing to die and vulnerable. Lastly, his resulting plan is what sets the play’s tragedy in motion. Though Friar Laurence had many opportunities to back away from his involvement, keeping Juliet and Romeo safe, he does not. This shows that his interference – and the way he goes about it – are responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s
When the friar hears of this, he devises a plan so that the two lovers can be together. The major climax of the play comes when the friar gives Juliet a potion that will make it seem as though she has died, when in fact she is alive the whole time. While in Mantua, Romeo mistakenly hears that Juliet has actually died and he goes to lay by her side. Just as he takes a vile poison and dies, Juliet awakens to find her love lying dead at her side. She cannot fathom living in a world without Romeo, so she takes his sword and ends her own life.