Friar Lawrence Caused the Deaths of Romeo and Juliet

‘Romeo and Juliet’

The play ‘Romeo and Juliet’, by William Shakespeare is a tragedy which

tells of the tragic deaths of the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet.

In Verona there were two families the Montague and the Capulet’s who

had an old argument. Their children Romeo and Juliet fall in love and

because of their families old arguments can never be together. Because

of Romeo ‘s killing of Tybalt, Romeo is banished and through series of

misunderstanding Romeo and Juliet take there lives at the end of the

play.

In this essay I am going to consider which characters are to be blame

for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet. There are many characters

who could be said to have some responsibility for the deaths of the

two main characters, but in my opinion, Romeo himself, Friar Lawrence

and the Nurse are the most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and

Juliet.

Before I go on to discuss the character that who is to blame for the

deaths of Romeo and Juliet, I will consider what the word blame means;

the word blame means ‘responsibility for a fault or wrong.’

Romeo the youngest son of the Lord and Lady Montague was in fact a

major influence on the events leading up to the deaths of himself and

his wife Juliet. He acted too hastily throughout the play. He

shouldn’t have asked Juliet to marry him so suddenly, and he should

have thought more carefully before rushing back to Verona after

hearing of Juliet’s death. He also acted violently and without

thinking when he killed Tybalt.

In the beginning of the play, he was deeply in love with Rosaline. He

was acting like he will never love any other person in his life and

when Benvolio...

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...essage to Romeo.

‘I’ll sent a friar with speed to Mantua, with my letter to thy lord.

It shows that it was Friar Lawrence’s responsibility to get the plan

to Romeo and he acted as an irresponsible by just sending only one

letter and not thinking that this letter will reach to Mantua or not.

In conclusion I think the most responsible is Friar Lawrence because

he made a risky plan which led to the deaths of the two lovers. The

second character that I think is the most to blame for the deaths of

Romeo and Juliet is Romeo himself, because he was too quick to fall in

love, he was in love first with Rosaline then Juliet. He was making

decision without thinking and too quick to act. The third character I

think the Nurse, because she carried Romeo and Juliet’s messages and

helped the two lovers to get married secretly.