At the end of Act V, Prince Escalus, announced, “Capulet, Montague, See what a scourge is laid upon your hate.” Later on he adds, “Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished.” Who shall be pardoned and who shall be punished, you may ask. Well the Prince first said, “All are punish’d” because Romeo and Juliet were both young. So that being said, their elders were responsible for their actions and deaths. Including Mercutio, Tybalt and Paris deaths as well. However, in addition to losing loved ones, others as in Friar Johnson and the Nurses have been very involved.
The Nurse should be pardoned by not telling the Capulets Juliet has been married to Romeo. I think this would have prevented Mercutio from dying, if he would’ve known the reason of why Romeo would not fight back when Tybalt was hitting him. She is also guilty, as a mother figure, to try and talk to Juliet’s
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I think that both of the families should be pardoned because both of their feuds against eachother had something to do with Juliet and Romeo’s death. Her father on the other hand had just as much to do with everything. He would not listen to his daughter and how she felt about the young man nor if she would liked to get married to Paris. Instead Juliet denied the marriage, he got angry, they began to argue then he threatened if she would not obey by his rules she will be dead to him.
So both Capulet and Montague should receive pardon for the actions of Romeo and Juliets death. Since, both sides of the two families loved ones died that should be enough punishment for them both. If the Nurse does not get punished she will have to live with the heartache and thought, that she was the blame of Juliet's death. Friar Johnson would have to quit calling himself a godly man because what he did was a huge sin. Juliet's father would have to live with hate in his heart knowing he was the cause to his very own daughter's
Did you know that Romeo and Juliet was one of the biggest love story of all time. Romeo and Juliet is a story of two star-crossed lovers from two families the Capulets and the Montagues. The Capulets and the Montague had a big fight that made the families very angry at each other. Romeo and Juliet decide to get married. The two couple marry and run away. In the process both of them will die. When it comes to Romeo and Juliet who are the top three people that caused the two to die. The two people that are chosen are Friar Lawrence and Lady Capulet. Friar was chosen because he is the one that married Romeo and Juliet. Lady Capulet was chosen because she is forcing Juliet to marry Paris which is making Juliet want Romeo even more. The third thing
At this point the nurse now tries to step in and defend Juliet. She is very protective of Juliet as she treats Juliet like her own child and is more of a mother figure to Juliet than her own real mother Lady Capulet. Lord Capulet again reacts violently. I believe this is justified of Lord Capulet as the nurse should not get involved in family issues
While reading Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet” it is easy to see that everybody in the story is at fault for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Personally however, I believe that three of the main characters are more at fault then the other characters. First is Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend. Next is Benvolio, nephew of Lord Montague and Romeo’s other friend. Last is Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet Franciscan Priest. In a story of unorthodox love, family feuding, and violence, many are at blame for the deaths.
Murder is such a tragedy and there's always someone to blame. Today we are going to talking about who should be punished for the death 5 innocent people and 1 not so much. We are also going to discuss who should be pardoned in this horrible event. In Romeo and Juliet, Rosaline should be pardoned then Friar Lawrence and The Nurse should be punished.
60-65) She could have put it to a stop by telling Juliet she was not allowed to get married. Instead, The Nurse gave Juliet her blessing and helped her get married. By the time the nurse realized she should not have been helping Juliet, it was already too late. All in all, The Nurse failed as a God Teacher because she had the power to stop all of this, but instead she put Juliet's happiness before her best interest and that did not end well resulting in the death of Juliet Capulet.
This shows that the Nurse is following orders from Juliet, because she thinks it will make Juliet happy. Although she does, she does not seem to be bothered about the damage she could cause in the future. This is one reason why the Nurse could be to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Another point in the play where the Nurse contributes to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is when the proposal of Paris comes along. At this stage in the play, Romeo has been banished.
Finally the last reason why Romeo and Juliet could be held responsible for their own deaths could be that they shouldn’t have taken the potions, both Romeo and Juliet. They both had much more to live for than just each other, ‘For fear of that I will stay with thee, And never from this palace of dim night Depart again. Here, here will I remain’ There are many people and things to blame for the deaths, the parents, fate, the family feud, Paris, The Nurse, Prince, Friar Lawrence, and Romeo and Juliet, but each has its own good qualities of why it could be those people. It is really a personal decision on who is at fault and how you view the book.
In conclusion, As we know they are dead, Romeo and Juliet are the real blames for their death. Romeo and Juliet's deaths were tragic and sad, Yes they could have avoided their tragic deaths, but the true blame is on them. The deaths of Romeo and Juliet was their fault. The reasons are too many to count but the main three is they were emotional teenagers without good thought processing. They were Irrational and not thinking. They also had to high of a status to high of a status quote. These things ultimately led to their tragic and sad death. Looking back on being a teenager, what would you do if you were
In conclusion, the four people to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death are; Capulet, Nurse, Mercutio and Friar Lawrence. The Capulet’s big heartedness and small heartedness has taken the life of the young couple. The nurse intended to provide Juliet a better life by giving her life of love than advising her to marry Paris for both the life of wealth and love, and Mercutio’s impulsive nature has caused their death. Lastly, Friar Lawrence’s useless wisdom has also been the cause of the young couple’s death. Hence, the intention is not only enough for something good to happen useful wisdom is also necessary.
The Nurse was also responsible for the tragic ending of the play. When Romeo and Juliet met, the Nurse became their messenger. She helped them be together even though she knew Romeo was a Montague and that Juliet's family would disapprove. The Nurse brought news to Juliet from Romeo telling her to sneak out so they could get married. She helped Juliet get out of her house by bringing her a rope ladder to climb off her balcony with and telling her parents that she went to shrift. The Nurse kept Romeo and Juliet's marriage a secret from the families. When Juliet's parents said she should marry Paris, the Nurse agreed and said that Juliet should forget about Romeo because he was in Mantua. With the Nurse no longer on her side she had no one to help her and back her up but the Friar. In this way she had a large impact on the terrible ending of Romeo and Juliet.
...ts built up in Lord Capulet are good building blocks for someone who is going to cause the deaths of 3 people. So you could say other people were responsible for the deaths, and you may even be right, but of those suspects the one who could have very easily done something better is Capulet. He could have not thrown a temper tantrum and Juliet wouldn’t have felt the need to fake her own death and escape the inevitable matrimony of her and Paris. Capulet had several opportunities to turn this story around, and he just didn’t, and that’s what makes him responsible for the tragic deaths of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris. Although Capulet is irrational, and in my opinion just a dummy, he does offer a good moral of the story. Hatred is a wasted emotion, with no other intention than to ruin people’s lives. Patients is a virtue, and maturity is a choice.
When Romeo and Juliet first meet, Juliet orders Nurse to figure out who Romeo was. Nurse upsets Juliet when she says, “His name is Romeo, and a Montague;/The only son of your great enemy” (I.v.142-143). Once Juliet hears this, she realizes that her only love has sprung from her only hate. The Nurse however, doesn’t take this into consideration. She doesn’t see the trouble that this has started, and only cares about Juliet’s feelings. As a result, she delivers this message to Romeo which becomes the beginning of a dangerous relationship. Later in the play after Romeo is banned from Verona, Juliet desperately looks for advice from her Nurse. She is told that,“Romeo is banish'd; and all the world to nothing/That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you;/Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth” (III.v.224-226). What the Nurse is saying to Juliet leads to danger because there is an imbalance between the irresponsibility and loyalty of Nurse’s advice. Nurse thinks she is being loyal to Juliet because she believes that marriage will cheer her up and Romeo will do her no good. She is making a practical decision here, since it is not the person, but the marriage that will make a difference. For Juliet, this is an act of betrayal and it ruins her relationship with the Nurse. This leads Juliet to Friar Lawrence’s plan, which becomes danger. The loyalty and irresponsibility in the Nurse led to more danger than happiness for Juliet. By not thinking twice about her actions, Nurse led Juliet in the wrong
An ancient grudge and parents too blinded by hatred to break it, bear the ultimate blame for the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence was just attempting to mend the rift between two households. Nurse desired to make Juliet happy. The parents were selfish and could not get over their enmity with each other, and their children suffered the repercussing consequences. Bombarded by the indecision of all, Romeo and Juliet were free-spirited, love-struck, and young. Sadly it was their deaths, not love or marriage that finally brought the two houses together and Verona peace.
In Romeo and Juliet, to what extent is the Nurse to blame for the tragedy?
The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the nurse is Juliet’s lower-class nurse. She is a loquacious, insolent trusting but yet dishonest character in the play. The only character that Juliet trusts and usually is seen cracking dirty jokes