Who Is To Blame In Romeo And Juliet?

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Romeo and Juliette is a story about a boy and a girl from feuding families in Verona, Italy, that takes place in the mid-to-late 1500s and ends when both lovers commit suicide. It makes you wonder what other characters had a hand in their tragic deaths, like the Friar Lawrence, who married them, Juliette’s nurse, who kept quiet, or even Romeo, who was impatient. Some of their actions point towards being partially responsible for Romeo and Juliette’s untimely ends. Starting with the friar for example, he was the one to marry Romeo and Juliette to each other. Friar Lawrence was a smart man, and he knew that marrying them could end in disaster because of the fighting between their families. Despite his concerns, which were expressed in lines 65-68 of Scene 3 in Act 2, friar Lawrence agreed to marry Romeo and Juliette and did so at the end of Act 2 in Scene 6. This creates a massive problem when Lord Capulet creates arrangements for Juliette to marry in three days, because he and Lady Capulet are unaware that their daughter has already married. The friar was looking at the situation in a political sense when he married Romeo and Juliette rather than a logical one, because by marrying them he could bring together the two families. …show more content…

Juliette told her nurse about meeting Romeo and her feelings for him. The nurse could have alerted either of Juliette’s parents about Juliette’s relationship with Romeo but instead chose not to. She went as far as to escort Juliette to friar Lawrence’s cell in Scene 6 of Act 2 so that Romeo and Juliette could be married, and when Lord Capulet made plans for Juliette to marry Count Paris at the beginning of Scene 4 in Act 3 she said nothing about Juliette’s marriage to Romeo. The nurse could have stopped this problem from arising by refusing to chaperone Juliette to marry Romeo. Her leniency helped to create more issues than it did

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