When people die, the people they were surrounded by naturally have questions. This is more so true when the deaths are sudden and the person is young. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two young lovers from opposing families who take their lives because they couldn’t be together. At the end of this play, Prince Escalus wants to know who was the cause of their untimely deaths. Who should he pardon and who should be punished? While the Capulets and Friar Lawrence have partial blame for the lover’s death, Fate is most at fault. To begin, the Capulets can be held somewhat accountable for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because of their intent to have her married quickly. At first, they wanted more of Juilet’s feedback on who she married. In Act 1 Lord Capulet says “But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, my will to her …show more content…
This change in mindset urges Juliet to ask Friar Lawrence for help and come up with the plan to fake her death. Furthermore, Friar Lawrence is more so to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death because he thought any plan he made would work no matter what. In Act 2 the Friar says “To turn your households’ rancour to pure love”(Doc C) and he has this plan to get the two families to stop this never ending fight to finally end. Then when speaking to Romeo, the Friar says “These violent delights have violent ends” (Doc C) showing that he’s fully aware that marrying them may have dire consequences for these actions. Most importantly, Fate holds the most liability for the two lover’s deaths. In the prologue, the summary of the story that is about to take place, it states “A pair of star crossed lovers take their life” (Doc A) showing that their story was already written in the stars before it even
Did you know that Romeo and Juliet was one of the biggest love story of all time. Romeo and Juliet is a story of two star-crossed lovers from two families the Capulets and the Montagues. The Capulets and the Montague had a big fight that made the families very angry at each other. Romeo and Juliet decide to get married. The two couple marry and run away. In the process both of them will die. When it comes to Romeo and Juliet who are the top three people that caused the two to die. The two people that are chosen are Friar Lawrence and Lady Capulet. Friar was chosen because he is the one that married Romeo and Juliet. Lady Capulet was chosen because she is forcing Juliet to marry Paris which is making Juliet want Romeo even more. The third thing
First of all, the dishonesty of Friar Lawrence, who married Romeo and Juliet, foreshadows the probability of his continuity to take even more insincere measures in manipulating the consequences faced by the young lovers. The Friar carries out an erroneous act of secretly marrying them under the church’s license without manifesting it in the public and encourages them to deceive their parents by keeping their relationship to themselves. He then agrees to marry Juliet and Paris, a county, and plans on faking her death, in order to avoid the marriage instead of revealing the truth about Romeo and Juliet right away. “I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,/On Thursday next be married to this County.” (4.1.49-50) In short, various incidents in the lives of Romeo and Juliet, controlled by Friar Lawrence’s cowardice result in undesirable circumstances.
“It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which cloth cease to be Ere on can say it lightens.” Says Juliet in the play written by Shakespeare “The Tradegy of Romeo and Juliet”.In Romeo and Juliet the death of the “star crossed lovers” could be blamed on Friar Lawrence and Romeo because of their rapidity and lack of common sense. Even though, Capulet forced Juliet to marry Paris, Friar Lawrence and Romeo should be blamed because they both acted with haste.
This is a catalyst in triggering tragic events, consisting of the deaths of many other characters, including themselves. Friar Lawrence plays a crucial role in the action, character development, and themes of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence plays an integral part in the action and plot of Romeo and Juliet by secretly marrying them, and giving Juliet the idea to fake her own death. Romeo and Juliet meet in the Friar’s cell for their marriage and the Friar says, “Come, come with me. For, by your leaves you shall not stay alone, Till the Holy Church incorporates two in one.
1. When Friar Lawrence announced to Romeo the news that he is banished, Romeo said, “There is no world without Verona walls / But purgatory, torture, hell itself. / Hence “banishèd” is banished from the world, / And world’s exile is death” (III.iii.18-21). He was saying that living outside Verona was like a torture because he did not want to leave Verona since he compared being banished to being dead when he realized he cannot be with Juliet anymore. He continued, “'Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here, / Where Juliet lives, nd every cat and dog / And little mouse, every unworthy thing, / Live here in heaven and may look on her, / But Romeo may not. (III.iii.31-35). He was comparing Verona as heaven since Juliet lives there and all the living things as well as the non living things he said are lucky because they can see her and he could not. In addition, he said, “Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, / No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, / But “banishèd” to kill me?—“Banishèd”! ” (III.iii.46-49). He was asking Friar Lawrence if he had anything that could just kill him such as a knife or poison rather than being banished which was also a foreshadowing. He was so emotional that he wanted to commit suicide but he ended up drowning from his tears and blubbering while lying on the ground.
91–92) and the aforementioned. Friar Lawrence thought the process of marrying two minors from the opposite household without permission would be perfect, showing how optimistic he was for thinking it would go well and irresponsible for not asking to marry young children of opposites. These are the reasons why Friar Lawrence is responsible for Romeo and Juliet's deaths. In addition, Romeo himself was also at fault for his and Juliet’s deaths for his naivety. An example is when Romo didn't think things through and just assumed what Balthasar was saying, Juliet was dead, Romeo believed it was true even though he got nothing from Friar Lawrence, and instead of asking questions or finding answers, he went and killed him next to the so-called dead (asleep) Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare, where a boy and a girl fall in love with each other during a party hosted by Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet. The two teenager decide to get marry, despite their family's hate for each other and only meeting each other a few hours ago. However, the Montagues (Romeo’s Parents) and the Capulets end their feud after they discover that their children killed themselves. Romeo and Juliet’s death was caused by Juliet’s parents, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence.
Friar Laurence is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he is presumptuous, careless and rash with his decisions. Firstly, Friar Laurence agrees to married Romeo and Juliet in secret, without thinking how it might worsen the tension between the two families. When discussing the marriage with Romeo, Friar Laurence says “For this alliance may so happy prove / To turn your households’ rancour to pure love” (2.3.94-95). However, his statement of how their marriage will cause their families’ enmity to evolve into “pure love” is solely based on assumption. Blinded by good intentions of a marriage, Friar Laurence jumps to a conclusion that the two families would reunite in peace, when in reality the tension between the two families worsen leading to the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, the arranged marriage of Paris and Juliet, and ultimately the deaths of Romeo
“The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare is surely to leave readers and watchers with a feeling of despair, but, it also leaves those with an inquisitive feeling. Who’s to blame for the death of these “star-crossed” lovers? Who’s to blame for the dismaying feeling given to audiences everywhere? The quote “These violent delights have violent ends” (2.6.9) answer those questions entirely. The character Friar Laurence is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet for 3 overlooked, yet important, reasons. Most would believe it was the families, or the unknown circumstances of being in love. Yet, in all honesty, Friar Laurence did marry the two, supplied Juliet with the potion to send her into sleep, and entrusted a messenger
In ‘The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’, Romeo and Juliet die due to unfortunate circumstances, but who’s fault is it really? The person who is at fault for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet is the Friar Lawrence. Although Friar Lawrence did not plan for Romeo and Juliet to die his poor planning, secrecy and untimeliness happened to cost them their lives. Friar Lawrence’s biggest flaw in almost all of his plans is miscommunication and decisions made far too quickly to be thought through well enough. Even though Friar Lawrence’s intentions were ethical and well thought through in the beginning of the play his choices and his morals further along in the play seem to diminish and even Juliet begins to question if her trust in him is misplaced and if he would poison her to save himself from possible exile or death but, nevertheless she decides to trust the Friar and drink the strange concoction.
We have all been stricken with a great loss. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet have committed double suicide but days ago. This terrible tragedy was due to their forbidden, secret love, the likes of which we knew nothing about until it was too late. We might have known sooner, and none of this may have happened if it wasn't for the actions of Friar Lawrence. His actions led to their premature demise, as he married them for the wrong intentions and did not come clean about the marriage when such information was needed. Although the Friar is a holy man, we cannot forget the terrible things he has done. Allow me to elaborate on his deeds and my reasoning behind why Friar Lawrence should be punished for what he has done.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a play which involves two “star-crossed lovers”, and how they have both fallen in love with each other. This love lead to many consequences, with the major one being the deaths of the two. The cause of their deaths is clear, but the one to blame for it is very controversial. Many people could be to blame, but I believe that the friar, Friar Lawrence, was the most involving. This is mainly because of his intent to end the feud between the two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, which ultimately led to the marriage of Romeo and Juliet. This is expressed when he says, “For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love.”
Friar Lawrence thought that is would be a brilliant idea to marry the two in secret so the Capulets and the Montagues would finally stop their feuding. “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 . 96-99). Friar Lawrence doesn’t believe that Romeo’s love for Juliet is real since he just thought that he loved another lady named Rosaline but he still agrees to marry them anyway. The Friar tells Romeo and Juliet that he will marry the two of them in his cell. “Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot / Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. A lover may bestride the gossamers / That idles in the wanton summer air, / And yet not fall, so light is vanity” (2 . 6 . 16-20). Juliet runs into Friar Lawrence's cell so the Friar can marry the two of them. Friar Lawrence is the most to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death because he married them in secret which causes a lot of tragic events to happen and the Friar leaves Juliet at her family’s
Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet, which contradicts his initial decision of rejecting Romeo’s request. With Friar Lawrence’s cooperation, the young couple is married without the parents’ knowledge The decision of marrying each other was solely based on haste, so if Friar Lawrence refused to marry the couple then it would’ve stalled the marriage, giving Romeo and Juliet more time to contemplate the situation. When Juliet flees from her home after the Capulets arrange her to marry County Paris in two days, the Friar Lawrence provides Juliet with a potion that sends her to sleep, a plan on how to convince her parents that she is dead, and a lie to tell her parents. Upon the failure of this plan when the message did not deliver to Romeo, he should’ve informed a Capulet of the situation. This negligence led to the Capulets being devastated which led to Romeo being given misleading information which led to his death.
In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a drama written by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet fall madly in love at first sight, contrary to the families rivalry. Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet, however they marry one another anyway. Friar Lawrence is the man of worship in Verona, he is the Friar that wed Romeo and Juliet and kept their secrets from their families. On the contrary fate wants to kill the two star crossed lovers to mend the rancor of the two families. Friar Lawrence’s ignorance and inability to communicate, Romeo’s tendency to impulsive behavior and being blinded by love, and fate all lead to Juliet and her Romeo’s demise.