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An Analysis Of Friar Lawrence To Blame For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a play about two young lovers who did everything they could to be together. Their desire to be together ended with the death of both of them. Who is to blame for the deaths of the young lovers Romeo and Juliet?The blame can not solely be put upon one person alone. The actions of many people together added to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Therefore there are multiple people who can be put at fault. Those people are Friar Lawrence, Friar John, and Romeo and Juliet themselves. First to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths is Friar Lawrence. First off, Friar Lawrence knew of the feud between the two families of Romeo and Juliet. Even with the knowledge of the feud, he unwisely chose to marry the lovers anyway. He believed the families would eventually be happy with their marriage. Friar Lawrence stated, “For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love.” (Act II, iii) The two lovers, even though married, were not allowed to see each other. Friar Lawrence’s decision to marry them was a mistake. He was also the person who came up with the plan for Juliet to fake her death, which ended horribly to say the least. …show more content…

He was given a letter by Friar Lawrence to bring to Romeo which told of the plan of faking Juliet’s death. Friar John never delivered the letter because he instead stopped to visit the sick. Friar John said, “I could not send it- here it is again-,” (Act V, ii) giving the letter back to Friar Lawrence. Friar Lawrence knew that the letter was important for Romeo to read and said to Friar John, “Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, the letter was not nice but full of charge, of dear import, and the neglecting it may do much danger.” (Act V, ii) If Friar John had delivered the letter as told, Romeo and Juliet may not have

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However Friar Lawrence is more at fault for failing to deliver the letter to Romeo about the plan with Juliet. So far the plan is working perfectly, Juliet is presumably “dead” and has been taken to the tomb, but Friar John gets stuck in quarantine and is unable to deliver the letter. Friar John says “I couldn’t send it. Here it is” (Shakespeare V.II.14).

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I couldn’t send it…. and I couldn’t get a messenger.” So, if Friar Laurence took the letter to Romeo himself he wouldn’t have killed himself because he would have known the plan about Juliet’s ‘Death’.

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This letter contained him saying what he was going to do to Juliet with the potion, and how he was going to fake her death so she could run away with him, and they could live happy ever after. The Friar says, “The letter was not nice, but full of charge of dear import, and neglecting it may do much danger”(V.ii.18-20). This quote is saying that Friar Laurence did not send the letter with a reliable person. In doing this it made Romeo not know what was actually going on, and if he would of known that she wasn't actually dead, he would not of killed himself, and she would not of killed herself because of Romeo killing

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Have you ever wondered who was responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, who killed them in that cave that night? I believe Friar Laurence was responsible for their deaths and the sadness brought to both families. Friar Laurence thought that by marrying Romeo and Juliet would end the feud between the Capulet and the Montagues. The Friar was also the one who came up with the plan to fake the death of Juliet, then her and Romeo could run away together. He also ran away when Romeo killed himself and Juliet just woke up that then ended in a tragedy.

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To start off, the book Romeo and Juliet had a lot of ups and downs for the two love birds till their death. Shakespeare created this play and the words he used had multiple meanings behind them. In every scene or most scenes, a new conflict would arise. Everything in the play was well balanced and for every conflict, there was a resolution. The real question behind this play is who were the people to actually blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death?

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But if Friar Lawrence had expressed the importance of the letter to Friar John, or taken it to Romeo himself, Romeo would have known that Juliet wasn't actually dead. In Act V scene 2, Friar Lawrence learns that Friar John didn't get the letter to Romeo due to an illness. On line 17-20, Friar Lawrence tells Friar John the importance of the letter. Now considering that when Romeo heard the news of his banishment, he said quote “Ha banishment? be merciful, say death.”

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Friar John was not mentioned in the story until the last act, but he was tasked by Friar Lawrence to deliver an especially important letter to Romeo that housed the secret plan, “I writ to Romeo that he should hither come as this dire night to help take her from her borrowed grave, being time in potion’s force should cease” (5.3.257-262). This piece of evidence explains how the letter contained all the information that Romeo needed to know about his plan including the fact that Juliet is not actually dead. This plan would have worked seamlessly if it were not for the fact that Fryer John failed to deliver the letter to Romeo before he was told by his servant that Juliet had “died.” “I could not send it-Here it is again, nor get a messenger to bring it to thee, so fearful were they of infection” (5.2.14-16). In this quote, the reader is informed that the letter did not make it to Romeo and that he gave the letter back to Fryer Lawrence after his lazy attempt at delivering it.

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Friar John was placed with a very important task of delivering a letter to Romeo telling him that Romeo was not actually dead. Friar Lawrence says this “This same should be the voice of Friar John. Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo? Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.” (act 5 scene 2) before he finds out Friar John didn’t do what he asked him to do.

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One of the biggest mistakes of Friar Laurence when sending this important letter to Romeo was that Friar Laurence trusted someone else to send this very important letter to Romeo. Ofcourse, these ironic events happened but in a different style, Friar John couldn’t send the letter that Friar Laurence gave because of quarantine for a disease. ” Unhappy fortune. By my brotherhood, The letter was not nice but full of charges Of dear import, and the neglecting it May do much danger.” (Act V, scene 1, line

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When instructed by the pontiff to take a letter outlining the very important plan to reunite the two lovers to Romeo, Friar John was merely told to deliver the letter to Romeo in Mantua. “By my brotherhood, The letter was not nice but full of charge, Of dear import, and the neglecting it May do much danger,” Friar Lawrence cried when he learned Romeo had not received the letter (Shakespeare, Act 5, Scene 2, Line 18-21). In this, Friar Lawrence trusted a fellow friar who was not aware of the stakes because Lawrence had refused to reveal anything, highlighting his ignorance in the matter. Not understanding the critical nature of the note, Friar John made a detour to a fellow brother, preventing him from reaching Romeo, which was another ripple caused by Friar

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He was the one who married the two, hoping that the marriage would cause an end to the feuding. Romeo and Juliet getting married was banned and wouldn't be able to take place without Friar Lawrence. Friar Lawrence stupidly chose to marry Romeo and Juliet even though he knew that it would cause issues in the future. The Friar says in the beginning of the story "this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households' rancor to pure love." (II iv 91-92) This shows that the Friar has doubts and only has a small bit of hope that Romeo and Juliet's marriage will actually be successful.

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Friar Lawrence asked this to John. Friar John could not deliver that letter because of an infection, the Black Plague. I don’t know why Lawrence didn’t just deliver the letter himself and not put his responsibilities on somebody else. He was just trying to help, but resulted in the death of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris. If Romeo would have got the letter, then he would have never gone and bought that poison and killed himself in the Capulet’s tomb.

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He, meanwhile would send a note to Romeo informing him of the hoax that was being perpetrated on the Capulets and Paris, and asking Romeo to meet him at the graveyard where Juliet would greeted them alive and well. Unfortunately, the message never arrived. This was revealed when Friar John told Friar Laurence, " I could not send it, here it is again / Nor get a messenger to bring it thee" (5.2.14-15). Friar Laurence had not told the messenger the importance of the letter reaching Romeo. And, if Friar Laurence had followed the original agreement he made with Romeo: "Sojourn in Mantua; I 'll find out your man, /

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In the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, the three characters to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are Romeo’s and Juliet’s parents, Juliet’s Maid, and Mercutio. The first characters to blame are Romeo’s and Juliet’s parents. They are to blame because instead of stopping the fight between them they join the fight. So, for this both Romeo and Juliet kill themselves so they be together. The second character to blame is Juliet’s Maid.

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