Romeo And Juliet's Parents

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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is well-known, but who caused the young couple’s passing? Romeo, Juliet, Romeo and Juliet’s parents, Friar Laurence, and fate all divide the blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet contributed to their own deaths. Friar Laurence’s plan led to Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. Romeo and Juliet’s parents caused their own children to die because of their family feud. Also, fate ended the feud between the Montagues and Capulets by killing the children. Romeo and Juliet’s parents were a partial cause of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. The feud between the young couple’s families, the Montagues and the Capulets, caused the love between Romeo and Juliet to be forbidden. Since Romeo and Juliet’s love was …show more content…

However, Friar Laurence is partially responsible for the ending of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence created the plan that led to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The organized plan was to have Juliet drink a potion that would make her look dead, but she would only be in a deep sleep. Then, Romeo would come rescue her out of the tomb and they would be able to love each other. This plan had a lot of faults in it and a lot of room for error. As Juliet is about to drink the potion, she considers the possible negative results that this plan would led to should it go wrong. “What if this mixture do not work at all?/Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?/No,no! This shall forbid it. Lie thou there.” (4.3.21-23) “How if, when I am laid into the tomb,/I wake before the time that Romeo/Come to redeem me? There’s a fearful point!” (4.3.30-32) Finally, Juliet ends up taking the potion and the plan ends up epically …show more content…

The Montagues and Capulets had a family feud, which often led to quarrels in the streets of Verona. In order for the two families to end their feud, the sacrifice of the families’ children had to be made. The families did not end their fight until the Montagues and Capulets realized that their fighting had contributed to the deaths of their own children. As the prince says in the closing scene, “See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,/That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!/And I, for winking at your discords too,/Have lost a brace of kinsmen. Are all punished.”

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