Friar Lawrence To Blame For The Death Of Romeo And Juliet

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In Shakespeare’s Play Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers who have star-crossed love, though they are enemies. The Montagues and Capulets have had animosity for one another for a while, but Romeo and Juliet choose to rebel from their parents' grudges and choose their love instead. Though Juliet has an arranged marriage, she marries Romeo with the help of Friar. Then, she lies to her dad and fakes her death. Once Romeo finds out she’s dead, he takes his life with poison and Juliet follows with a knife. Though they have taken their own lives, there is one individual to blame for their death. Friar Lawrence’s plan of fake death and rescue is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death. To illustrate, Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet behind their parents' backs, …show more content…

With the star-crossed lovers already having forbidden love, this can lead to misery on both Romeo and Juliet’s end. Act 2). This evidence clearly proves that Friar doesn’t elaborate enough about the potential consequences and negatives that can happen if their parents find out. Furthermore, Friar also creates a plan for Juliet to fake her death then send Romeo a letter to come back to town and rescue Juliet with a kiss (Act 4). This clearly proves that when Romeo turns out to not receive the letter, Friar didn’t have a backup plan and had too much confidence in his plan and once again didn’t consider the potential consequences. Some may claim that Friar is not to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death because he was only trying to guide them and lead them to the best, though that failed. However, this is not accurate, Friar might’ve wanted to help, but he could have gone a safer route with his plan. Using Romeo and Juliet’s relationship to break their family feud might’ve been a good idea. Though his plan to make pity for the Capulet family and let the kids run away would have made the feud

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