Towards the end of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”, the two secretive lovers parish in the Capulet’s tomb. Most of the town shows up asking the same question, “Who is responsible?” Friar Laurence should take the fall and punishment for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he was the one who gave Juliet the potion in the first place. He married the two of them and his weak plan got them killed. Friar’s first mistake came when he agreed to marry them without first publicizing the marriage. He wasn’t considering the outcome that could come from them being secretly married. Friar put himself in an even worse position when he decided to give Juliet a potion without revealing the entire plan to Romeo first. Finally, his potential plan had
When he married Romeo and Juliet he allowed himself to be let into a more tight-knit emotional relationship with the couple. Then again, when Friar Laurence decided to marry them, most of the trouble in the future could’ve been avoided had he told or alerted the parents of the marriage that had taken place chapel. When Romeo first came to ask Friar Laurence to marry them, he didn’t agree to it for love but out of uniting the families. Friar confronted Romeo saying in line 66-67, Act 2 Scene 3, “Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” When the Friar confronts Romeo in this line, he is trying to get the point across to Romeo that it isn’t true love because Romeo doesn’t know Juliet well. After Romeo rejected Friar Laurence’s statement, the Friar should’ve said no to Romeo knowing the consequences of this secret marriage that, if discovered, could cause the hatred between each other’s family to get worse. Once Friar Laurence decided to and did marry them, Friar Laurence starts to feel emotionally responsible not only Romeo and Juliet’s marriage, but also to keep it a secret. This emotional instability causes the rest of the mistakes that contribute to the suicide of Romeo and Juliet in the
When they come to him about marrying them, he concedes and agrees to keep it a secret. Then he is repeatedly drawn into the marriage by trying to help them stay together to avoid both sets of parents finding out. Lastly, he concocts a plan where they will be together by creating a sleeping potion for Juliet but neglects to inform Romeo in a timely manner. Romeo thinks Juliet has killed herself for him so he does the same. Since it is a sleeping potion, she wakes up to find him dead and ends up killing herself. These actions support the fact that love never dies despite what happens. This would never have occurred if communication and honesty were key; mainly by Friar
When Romeo goes to Friar Lawrence, Romeo’s mentor, he is not sure he should marry these two adolescents. He finally agrees because he thinks it will end the feuding between the two families. But, when he is actually going through with it, he begins to have second thoughts. Friar cries out, “So smile the heavens upon this holy act/ That after hours with sorrow chide us not!” ( 2. 6. 1-2) If he is truly worried that he will be punished for this later, he should have stopped right there. Instead, he married them. This overreaction leads to lying and death in scenes to
First of all, the Friar unwisely agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet, even though he knows it will cause later problems. In the beginning, the Friar thinks that ".this alliance may so happily prove/ To turn your households' rancor to pure love." (II iv 91-92) This shows that the Friar has a slight hope of their marriage possibly working. Therefore, he decides to marry the two lovers.
...re her fake dead body is kept, and drinks the poison he brought with him, hastily, without giving it a second thought, assuming that Juliet was dead and that he might not be able to live without her. However, Juliet wakes up at the moment when Romeo falls dead on her lap and she exclaims, “Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end” (5.3.167), signifying the untimely death of Romeo that occurred due to his unnecessary haste.
He tries to warn Romeo of the temporary state of infatuation and persuades him out of his rage upon hearing his verdict of banishment. The Friar was a leaning stone for Juliet to turn to while her parents forced her to marry Paris, while the nurse betrayed her by compelling her to marry Paris. His words and believe, that the couple’s marriage would solve the family feud was also astonishing and showed a sense of believe but also doltishness which he held. But his words have no weight, there were like water in a shattered bucket, because although he speaks in magnifying and brilliant wisdom, his action undermines them. The Friar displayed his lack of sense and morality when he decided to wed Romeo and Juliet together, he said “Oh, she knew well Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell. But come, young waverer, come, go with me, In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households' rancor to pure love.”(2.3.87-92) The Friar has single-handedly decided without thoughts, that he would marry two people in secret, who have continually demonstrated to him a blatant disregard of reason and just met each other and also from families who harbor deepened and engulfing hatred towards each other. {Does the Friar realize that if one of the families realizes the couple’s risks getting killed? Has he disregarded the morality of marriage and listened to an obstinate
Friar Laurence had giving the wrong time to them, So Romeo believing the time he's gotten frighten and believes Juliet is really dead that the potion had killed her, so therefore he loves Juliet. Like I said he will do anything to be with her even if that means taking his own life to be with her , Romeo killed himself he took a potion and died all because he believed Juliet had died from the potion. So Romeo is dead no way to come back.
Friar Laurence, through his lack of good judgment, is largely responsible for the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. Rather than being supportive of them and helping them disclose their loving situation, Friar Laurence took the “easy” way out. He succumbed to their desire to elope. He secretly married Romeo and Juliet instead of standing behind them and encouraging them to confront their families with the facts about their commitment to and love for each other. As a result, an even stronger bond between them was created through marriage: "For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone / Till holy church incorporate two in one" (2.6.36-37). Friar Laurence married Romeo and Juliet, hoping that their union would bring an end to the constant feuding between their two families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Though the friar’s intentions were good and above reproach, they were certainly missteps along a pathway to tragedy. None of the tragedies would have occurred if Romeo and Juliet were not married. When Tybalt challenged Romeo...
One reason why Friar Laurence is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is because he gives Juliet the poison to fake her death. When Juliet tells Friar Laurence that there must be a way for her to escape marriage with Paris and be able to marry Romeo the Friar grabs a vial of poison and instructs her to:“Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilling liquor drink thou off;”(4.1.93-94). Here the Friar is telling Juliet to take the poison that will make her appear dead causing her family to think that she is dead and call off the wedding. When Juliet took the poison ,that Friar Laurence supplied her with, Romeo believed she was actually dead and he killed himself. Juliet saw that Romeo was dead and believed she had no
Plenty of events leading up to the deaths of the couple link to Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence married Romeo and Juliet in secret . Before marrying the pair Fria r Laurence expresses, " So smile the heavens upon this holy act/ that after-hours with sorrow chide us not" (4.6.1-2). The friar knew that marrying the couple could come with consequences yet he still went on with it. Marrying the two without p er mission from their parents led to further complications when Juliet's parents wanted to marry her to
Friar Laurence’s first bad decision in the play was to marry Romeo and Juliet to each other in the first place. Friar Laurence was a little hesitant at first because Romeo was young and thought that he didn’t really love Juliet. to marry them. But, Friar Laurence agreed anyway. Which brings me to the second reason of why Friar Laurence married them for the wrong reason. Friar Laurence married the to hoping it would end the feud between the two families and create peace. The third reason the marriage was a bad idea is because it happened to quick if Friar Laurence would of waited a couple days they wouldn’t be in the same position they are in because Juliet wouldn’t of been married when she is forced to marry Paris. The outcome would of ended differently. Agreeing to marry Romeo and Juliet was all together a bad decision Friar Laurence made to begin with.
Following Romeo’s banishment, Juliet was so stricken with grief that she did nothing but cry for hours on end. Her father thought this to be a result of Tybalt’s (Juliet’s cousin) murder, the very reason Romeo was exiled. He arranged her a marriage to the county Paris in the hopes that it would cheer her up, but she was already married to Romeo. Outraged over this, she went to the Friar in the hopes that he would provide counsel. Instead of coming clean and telling the Capulets about Juliet’s marriage, he told her “Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate an execution as that is desperate which we would prevent.” (Act 4, Scene 1). Friar Lawrence came up with a risky plan, in which Juliet would fake her death and be placed in her family’s tomb. After two days, Juliet would wake up and be escorted out of town by the Friar and Romeo. A plan so risky and unpredictable as this should never have been carried out, and the Friar knew that. Instead of taking the fall and admitting that he married Romeo and Juliet, he opted to save his own hide and risk Juliet’s life. The Friar put his well being before that of Juliet, and over complicated the scenario in an attempt to protect his reputation. An argument can be made that this risky plan was the sole cause of the double suicide, and there is logic to it. If the Friar had not gone through with this plan, and simply told the families of Romeo and Juliet about their love, maybe we wouldn’t be in this awful situation. The plan to fake Juliet’s death was way too risky and should never have happened, yet the Friar chose to go through with it just to spare his reputation. For this and more, he is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and
First, Friar Laurence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet. At first he was doing the right thing, by questioning Romeo about how he used to ‘love’ Rosaline. Then he gave into romeo and agreed to marry them. Even though he knows the Capulets and the Montagues have bad history.“For doting, not for loving, pupil mine….
and there are two main people to blame. The two characters have both taken part in having egregious plans and thinking irrationally. Friar Laurence and Romeo are to hold accountable for the deaths in Romeo and Juliet.
The definition of love is “an intense feeling of deep affection”, as seen in the chemistry between Romeo and Juliet. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare writes the two characters as meant to be, but as fate takes its course, the two star crossed lovers, who are stuck in a family feud, are left dead. Some deemed Romeo guilty for their deaths because of his rash decisions, but Romeo never wanted harm to come to Juliet and was misguided by the adults in his world. Romeo was a lover, not a fighter; therefore, his rash decisions should not make him guilty for their deaths, but pardoned because of his desire not to fight and the love he bared for the Capulet name.
This lack of communication is shown when Lord Capulet exclaims, “O’ Thursday, tell her, she shall be married to the noble earl (Paris)!” (3.4.21-22), and agrees to let Paris marry Juliet. Capulet does not know of Romeo and Juliet’s marriage, and this ignorance is a result of the secrecy of Romeo and Juliet’s marriage. Because of the feud, Juliet cannot tell Capulet that she is married to Romeo, and therefore she is promised to Paris, although she is a married woman. Forced to marry someone she doesn’t love, Juliet goes to Friar Lawrence and threatens to kill herself. This then causes Friar to set in motion the plan of Juliet’s fake death which eventually leads to both of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. In addition, Capulet’s ignorance of Romeo and Juliet’s marriage, due to the lack of communication, causes Capulet to move Paris and Juliet’s marriage up a day. Timing becomes a major issue because Friar John, who is delayed a day, could not deliver the letter to Romeo, and since the marriage is moved one day up, Juliet must fake her death a day in advance. Thus, Romeo is oblivious to Friar Lawrence’s plan and makes the rash decision to kill himself alongside Juliet. The feud restricted the initial communication of Juliet to her father about her marriage to Romeo causes a chain reaction to occur, which ends in Romeo and Juliet’s
In the final scene of Romeo and Juliet, when the prince finally approaches the two families regarding the deaths of Romeo and Juliet I feel that it is the Capulet's who should be punished for this tragic situation that has occurred. I feel that it is the Capulet's should be punished because when Juliet and Romeo found love they were the main reasons the were kept apart and if it had not been for Tybalt killing Mercutio then the deaths of romeo and Juliet may have never occurred.