Who Is To Blame For Friar Lawrence's Death

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William Shakespeare’s plays are different from other plays because of the language he uses and his way with writing. His writing makes his plays different than other authors and special. The play Romeo and Juliet is one of the most popular plays of Shakespeare, where Romeo and Juliet die and there are a lot of people to blame for their death such as: their own families, Paris and Friar Laurence. However, Friar Laurence is the most person to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet, because he is the one who helped them to get married secretly and he knew the couple before they met. He is the one who gave Juliet a very powerful potion to put her in a deep sleep, to fool the people around her by acting like she is dead. Friar Laurence was also very careless with the letter that he wrote to Romeo.This essay explains why Friar Laurence is to blame for their deaths.
Firstly, Friar Laurence knew Romeo and Juliet before they met each other and they were talking to him as a father figure, which means that when they decided to get married they put all their confidence on Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence helped them to get married because he thought that this marriage will stop the feud between the two families. Friar Laurence said, "This alliance may so happy prove to turn [their] households' rancor to …show more content…

Friar Laurence was very careless about the letter that he wrote to Romeo, telling him about the plan that he and Juliet came up with. He gave the letter to Friar John to give it to Romeo. Friar John faced some tough obstacles along his journey and returned to Verona without giving the letter to Romeo. Friar Laurence did not make sure that the letter was given to Romeo. That caused Romeo to kill himself by a potion because he did not know the plan and he thought that Juliet died and he does not want to live without

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