Friar Lawrence To Blame For The Death Of Romeo And Juliet

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“Reason and love are sworn enemies” (Unknown). With love, young love in particular, people can do crazy things without thinking. Even with good intentions, the lack of thought can have serious consequences. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare the concept of love, loss, and hatred are explored with the lives and deaths of the ill-fated lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Coming from two continually brawling families, the Capulets and the Montagues, the young love is strictly forbidden. With the help of Friar Laurence and Juliet’s nurse, the couple marries. Soon after a series of rash and dramatic decisions leads to the preventable deaths of Romeo and Juliet. In this tragedy, Friar Laurence’s pridefulness and Romeo’s irrationality make them clearly the most to blame for the deaths of the star-crossed lovers of Verona.
In this play, the character Friar Laurence is empathetic and …show more content…

After Balthasar tells him that Juliet is dead, Romeo does not stop to grieve or process this trauma. Strangely, he goes to the apothecary to buy a quick-working poison, rides to Juliet’s tomb and kills himself next to her. In true dramatic fashion, Romeo’s dying words are, “Here’s to my love! O true apothecary!/Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die!” (V.3.119-120). This dramatic behavior from Romeo illustrates how dangerous impulsivity can be and how it led to many deaths. His impulsive choices to kill both Tybalt and Paris when provoked, killing himself upon realizing his Juliet is dead, and having his own death push Juliet to suicide show this fatal character flaw of impulsivity. This behavior causes him to overlook many things such as the impact on his family, town, and the shockingly still alive Juliet. With his lack of hesitation in this traumatic time and dramatic outlook on life, Romeo is clearly to blame for this

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