Everyone has kept a secret, some minor, some major, and some that may have caused terrible things to happen. Secrets don’t always lead to tragedy, but in some cases they can turn someone's world upside down. This is shown in the story “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare. In the story Romeo and Juliet having a secret marriage; and as a result Romeo is banished, and the deaths of Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Romeo, and Juliet occur. All of this happens due to one secret, When Tybalt wants to kill Romeo, he is confronted by Mercutio in an attempt to protect his friend Romeo, since Mercutio feared for Romeo’s life. This results in the death of Mercutio after a sword fight between himself and Tybalt, but his death could have been prevented if the marriage was known about. If Romeo and Juliet had not kept their marriage secret, Tybalt would have know and likely would not have wanted to kill …show more content…
He got banished because he and Tybalt got in a swordfight due to the anger between them. They wouldn’t be mad enough to fight if Tybalt would have known that Romeo was his brother-in-law. This is stated by Friar Lawrence himself when he says, “I married them; their secret wedding day was the day Tybalt died. His untimely death caused the bridegroom to be banished from the city.” (281) Since Romeo killed Tybalt, he was banished; if Tybalt didn’t fight Romeo because he knew they were related, then Romeo would not end up killing Tybalt and being banished from Verona and never able to come back to see Juliet. To summarize, secrets can cause very horrible events to happen. In Romeo and Juliet this is shown through the banishment of Romeo and deaths of Mercutio, Paris, Tybalt, Romeo and Juliet as a result of Romeo and Juliet’s secret marriage. If only Romeo and Juliet would have been honest and publicized their marriage, the lives of multiple people could have been
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a story of two young lovers. These two hearts, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet belong to feuding families. The family feud causes them to keep their love a secret and therefore only Romeo, Juliet, Benvolio, the Nurse and Friar Lawrence know of their love. Romeo and Juliet are able to look past the feud and let themselves fall in mad love with the other. They let themselves do almost anything for the other and at times it seems like too much to do, even for the one they love. Although fate and character traits play a key role in the play, ultimately Rome and Juliet’s personal choices lead to their downfall.Fate originates all of the conflicts in Romeo and Juliet, from when they met until they die.
Romeo was very loyal to his friends and family, and it is possible that Mercutio thought that Romeo would help him fight off Tybalt (since he was unaware of Romeo and Juliet’s secret marriage that somewhat united Romeo and Tybalt). However, this argument is easily deemed invalid. Romeo was not in the town square when the fight had first began, so Mercutio expecting his help in the fight would be a far-fetched idea. A person who is not present cannot help or hinder the situation at hand. In addition, Romeo tried to break up the fight when he said, “Gentlemen, for shame forbear this outrage! Tybalt! Mercutio! The Prince expressly hath forbid this bandying in Verona streets. Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio!” (Shakespeare 121). Romeo tried to stop the fight and therefore gave Mercutio more time before death, albeit minimal. The blame cannot be placed on Romeo since he did all that he could to stop the fight from
Mercutio can be blamed for Romeo and Juliet’s peril because he initiated the fight with Tybalt and forced Romeo to go to the Capulet’s party. At the beginning of the play, Romeo gets invited to the Capulet’s party by a servant, unless he was a Montague. At first, Romeo did not want to go, but Mercutio eventually convinced him under the pretext that Rosaline, Romeo’s love, was going to be there. The next day, Tybalt, a Capulet, went looking for Romeo because he knew that Romeo was at the Capulet party. Instead, he stumbled upon Mercutio and Benvolio and asked them where he could find Romeo. However, Mercutio did not want to tell him and insisted on having a duel. Tybalt killed Mercutio during the fight, and Romeo kills Tybalt because he has the need to avenge his friend. Unfortunately, Prince Escalus punished Romeo by banishing him from Verona. This made Romeo and Juliet’s love
Romeo married Juliet even though she was supposed to be his sworn enemy. He also did not want to fight with Tybalt because even though Tybalt didn’t know that they were now cousins Romeo knew and he didn’t want to bring any harm to him. Lord Capulet had portrayed this message when he was throwing his party. Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio had decided to sneak into the party that was being thrown by Lord Capulet and Tybalt had found out that Romeo was there. After Tybalt had found this out, he asked someone to fetch him his rapier.
In the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, many people lead to the outcome of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. The play is about a boy, Romeo, and a girl, Juliet, from two rival families that fall in love. The two families, the Montagues and Capulets, have been fighting for a long time and it affects the entire city of Verona, where they live. It is debated whether or not the deaths of the star-crossed lovers could be blamed on numerous people. The tragedy of their deaths was the faults of multiple characters and could have been prevented.
Although he seen the marriage as an opportunity to end the hostility and the continuous feuding between the Montagues and the Capulets (Proven in Act II, Scene III when Friar Laurence declares “For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your households ' rancor to pure love), the marriage only made the bond stronger between two young lovers. Romeo and Juliet had only known each other for a period of 24 hours, and both of the two were blindly stricken with love, as any young, naive teenage boy or girl would be. As Shakespeare once said, “love is too young to know what conscience is.” An article from New York University press also mentions that “none of the tragedies would have occurred if Romeo and Juliet were not married. When Tybalt challenged Romeo to a fight, Romeo, now being related to Tybalt through marriage, refused to fight When Mercutio stepped in to defend Romeo’s honor, Romeo tried to stop the fighting. It was his interference that led to Mercutio’s death. Shortly thereafter, in a rage that would cause his banishment, Romeo lashed out at Tybalt and killed him. Romeo and Juliet 's marriage has caused Mercutio and Tybalt 's deaths, and Romeo 's banishment. Friar Laurence was the instigator of all these woeful events; he started the tragedies by marrying Romeo and Juliet.” Although he had a practical motive, it was very foolish and unwise of him to marry young
Romeo denies the fate of Mercutio who fought against Tybalt and lost, so he challenges Tybalt to fight in defense of his honor. His sense of honor would not allow himself to ignore the death of Mercutio. It mandated his absurd behavior to take Tybalt’s life which even further separated the Montague and Capulet family. Moreover, Romeo still decides to marry Juliet after he takes Tybalt’s life. His sense of honor leads him to find Father Lawrence who will marry both Juliet
First of all, the dishonesty of Friar Lawrence, who married Romeo and Juliet, foreshadows the probability of his continuity to take even more insincere measures in manipulating the consequences faced by the young lovers. The Friar carries out an erroneous act of secretly marrying them under the church’s license without manifesting it in the public and encourages them to deceive their parents by keeping their relationship to themselves. He then agrees to marry Juliet and Paris, a county, and plans on faking her death, in order to avoid the marriage instead of revealing the truth about Romeo and Juliet right away. “I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,/On Thursday next be married to this County.” (4.1.49-50) In short, various incidents in the lives of Romeo and Juliet, controlled by Friar Lawrence’s cowardice result in undesirable circumstances.
By illustrating the negative effects of deception in relationships in the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows how important honesty is in
Firstly, Romeo and Juliet’s problematic marriage was a result of their impulsiveness. In Verona, the Capulet-Montague feud was infamous: even the servants loathed each other. Therefore, Romeo and Juliet knew of the consequences their marriage would entail since their families dislike each other. Yet, they still took that risk and got married. Afterwards, their secret marriage caused a big problem for Juliet. Lord Capulet was unaware of
After catching Romeo at a party he was not supposed to be at, Tybalt had it out for Romeo. Just after Romeo and Juliet’s wedding, Tybalt comes looking for him wanting to fight. Romeo does not want to fight because he now loves Tybalt since he is family to him, but neither Tybalt or anyone else knows this reason. Quickly, Mercutio steps in and tells Tybalt that he will fight him in honour of Romeo. Sadly, this led to the death of Mercutio.
There are many contributing factors to the death of Juliet and her Romeo. The omnipresent feud was the catalyst for the secrecy of their marriage, for Friar Lawrence's mechanisms in using them to form a hard peace between the families, and for the public fight that resulted in Mercutio and Tybalt's untimely deaths and Romeo's banishment. Fate, also, plays cruelly with the couple. Friar John being unable to forward Friar Lawrence's note to Romeo to explain his plan and Juliet's parents' misunderstanding of her grief over Romeo's banishment and pushing forward the marriage to Paris in unnatural haste as a sort of balm for her flagging spirits serve as examples of fate's intervention. The chief culprit, however, in the deaths of Juliet and
In reality, the Friar’s good intentions are the exact opposite. The hostility between the Montagues and Capulets only increases and before the play is over Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris, Romeo, and Juliet all die as a result of their secret marriage.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Tybalt was a adversary of Romeo and had the drift to kill him. His spleen of the situation is Romeo trying to love his coz Juliet. He approached Romeo and Mercutio looking for a fight. Tybalt and Mercutio ended up fighting and Tybalt killed Mercutio, because Tybalt did this, he deserved the death penalty for his transgression. Romeo then took revenge and killed him (3.1.70). This is a legal issue because Tybalt was going to be treated to the death penalty anyway so Romeo killing him was just like giving him the death penalty. This death is a lot different than the others because his was a legal issue and he deserved to die, the other deaths in the play like Romeo, Juliet and Mercutio decided to die for a family member that they love.
Because the love between the young couple is so powerful, they go to Friar Lawrence and they are secretly married. On the day of their marriage Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, challenges Romeo to a duel. In the midst of all this chaos, Romeo's best friend, Mercutio, is murdered by Tybalt. Romeo then slays Tybalt out of revenge. When the prince of Verona finds out what Romeo has done, he banishes Romeo from Verona forever.