Romeo and Juliet is a play that is a very well known love story of two star-crossed lovers that come from feuding families. The play Romeo and Juliet takes place in Verona, Italy and is a story of two desperate lovers that come together and fall in love with each other despite their feuding families. Throughout the story there are many events that lead to the tragedy that is Romeo and Juliet killing themselves. The true question is not how they died but rather who is to blame for their death. There are three things at fault for their death which are fate, the Capulet family, and Friar Lawrence who is most responsible for this tragedy. Fate is the outcome of inevitable events that are predetermined and usually lead to death, ruin, or misfortune. Fate played a huge roll in Romeo and Juliet’s death as it may have already been planned out therefore making their deaths …show more content…
Friar Lawrence is a coward because he agrees to everything that he is asked to do and is afraid to say no. For example he agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet, hide Romeo when he was banished, and help juliet fake her own death. (Document C) He is also a coward because instead of saving Juliet from killing herself he just runs out of the tomb and doesn't attempt to save her. (Document E) Overall Friar Lawrence is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death because of his participation in the events that lead to their death. Although there are three different things to blame, Friar Lawrence is the person that is overall responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence played a huge roll in everything that led up to their deaths. In the love story Romeo and Juliet two lovers come together through chaos and love each other to their deaths which are caused mainly by Friar Lawrence’s actions but also are due to fate and the Capulet
...uliet because he was a coward, secretive, and had a lack of communication with the other characters. Friar Lawrence had the potential to prevent the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, and instead, because of his choices, he caused them. Yes, the other characters may have contributed to Romeo and Juliet’s death, but Friar Lawrence caused it. The blame rests solely on his soldiers.
So it is likely that Shakespeare meant for fate to be the cause of Romeo and Juliet's death. I think that the family feud is the main cause for the death of Romeo and Juliet. If the families were not so hateful towards each other Romeo and Juliet would not have kept there love for each other a secret, and they would have no need for committing suicide. This also backs up the point that fate could be to blame for their deaths.
Who is the most to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? There are many opinions on who is to blame for the deaths of these "star crossed lovers." One of these opinions is that both Romeo and Juliet are equally to blame for their own deaths. Romeo nor Juliet knew how to resolve their own problems and went directly to Friar Lawrence. Whenever Romeo and Juliet failed to resolve their problem, their resolution was suicide. Romeo and Juliet also withheld the love affair between them, from their families.
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In the story of “Romeo and Juliet” it ends with both of them dying. The question is, who is to blame? Friar Lawrence should immediately be punished by the Prince for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. He should be punished because Friar kept secrets from everyone but Romeo and Juliet, he planned Juliet's death, and he planned Romeo and Juliet's runaway.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two star crossed lovers whose love cannot part from their two feuding families. The main themes of The stories are hatred and fate, both of which contribute to the deaths. Romeo and Juliet. The historical hatred between two families, perpetrated a bitter feud. This is illustrated by Tybalt from the Capulet family, Juliet's.
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” Romeo and Juliet were in love and the Friar decided to marry them, but after they were married, they would never be able to live a long and happy life with each other. Though the Friar was a father to Romeo he should not have given Juliet the potion and he should have just taken Juliet away at night so she and Romeo can be together again. Friar Laurence is the one to be blamed for every tragic that has happened.
Friar Lawrence is one of the many adults who made mistakes in the story, and he struck out by making three huge mistakes. Strike two for Friar Lawrence was when he relied on a 14 year old, unstable, girl to handle a potion to make her look dead; so she did not have to marry a man she didn’t love. “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 Count Paris,/ 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, (4.1. 70-76)” Friar Lawrence is the one who makes the bad decision, and tries to make a solution to Juliet’s problem, by making her pretend to die. This decision is obviously not very well thought out, and because she ends up dead not well executed. The decision to give her the potion was the second mistake that Friar Lawrence made in the story. Friar Lawrence made a third mistake in the story, and he struck out. When he is making the plan, possibly the dumbest plan ever, for Juliet he says he will get someone to deliver a letter to Romeo telling him what will be happening. But he fails to follow through with his promise to get the letter to Romeo in time, and this is the final and worst mistake of them all. “I could not send it-here it is again-/ (Gives FRIAR LAWRENCE a letter)/ Nor get a
Romeo and Juliet is a fictional romantic tragedy where two lovers were unfortunately born into feuding families. It seemed as if they were destined to be apart, but they met as strangers and it was love at first sight. Following the death of Tybalt and Mercutio, Romeo was exiled just a few days before Juliet’s arranged marriage with Paris. In an attempt to be together, Romeo and Juliet committed suicide to be in the one place neither of their families could bother them: heaven. Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet, should be held most responsible for their death because he used his daughter as a political pawn, he chose not to end their feud with the Montagues out of pride, and he controlled almost every aspect of his daughter’s life.
Both Romeo and Juliet speak of the role of fate and chance, it plays a
In Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the lovers meet their doom, by scene iii of Act V. With their fatal flaw of impulsivity, Romeo and Juliet are ultimately to blame for their death. Contrarily, if it was not for the unintentional influence of the pugnacious Tybalt, the star-crossed lovers may have remained together, perpetually. To the audience, the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are already understood, for it is a Shakespearean tragedy. However, the causes, predominantly Romeo’s and Juliet’s fatal flaw of impulsivity and rashness, are as simple as Shakespearean writing. Though Romeo and Juliet are wholly to blame for their tragic suicides, in Act V scene iii, Tybalt is, in turn, responsible, as his combative spirit forced Romeo to murder him and Juliet to marry Paris.
Who’s to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet? William Shakespeare is the author that wrote The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The main characters in this play are Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt, Friar Lawrence, Lady Montague, Lady Capulet, and the Nurse. What really is love for these kids? This play tells what it’s like to fall in love so young, and how age can affect your decisions in the long run. Teens that get married to young usually end up getting divorced in the long run, because they were too young in the first place.Romeo and Juliet fall in love, it’s bad for them because they are each other's enemy, they both know that they can't be together, but they do it anyway because
Finally, the friar gives the letter about "the fake death plan" to Friar John when he should have delivered it himself. Despite any other "at fault" characters in Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence is the most responsible for the tragic events that occur in the play because of his miscommunication, dishonesty and poor decision making. Beginning with Friar Lawrence's first mistake, he marries Romeo and Juliet not knowing that it would create a controversy. When Friar Lawrence marries Romeo and Juliet, no one knows and there is no parental consent. By not telling anyone, Romeo and Juliet are put in danger because of this secret.
Sometimes a trusted friend cannot give you good advice. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, the character Friar Lawrence was a trusted friend who cost his friends their lives.Friar Lawrence is responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths because he helped them rush their relationship and came up a faulty plan that eventually cost them their lives.
In the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare there are a numerous amount of events that either happened by chance or by choice that could have led to the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. One character that perhaps played a role in the death of the two lovers was Friar Lawrence. In his speech to Romeo about growing up and becoming a man, Friar advised Romeo that if he wanted to be with Juliet he was going to need to man up.