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Argumentative Essay On Romeo And Juliet

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Could you imagine meeting someone at a dance one sunday, marrying them on monday, and dying with them on thursday? Well, that is exactly what happened in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In this play, many things happen very fast. This makes some things about the play debatable on what exactly happened. There are many claims that people can make about Romeo and Juliet. One example includes the abilities of some people in the story. The Nurse, for example, in Act III of Romeo and Juliet shows readers that she needs work on communicating better. One reason for this is that she uses arbitrary words, misleading Juliet to think that her husband Romeo had died, when it was Tybalt who actually had died. “Is Romeo slaught’red, and is Tybalt …show more content…

In this example, it is said that Friar Lawrence followed Utilitarianism in act IV of Romeo and Juliet. He tries to keep Romeo and Juliet together in an attempt to stop the animosity between the two feuding families. “Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope,… / As that is desperate witch we would prevent” (IV, i, 68-70). We also know that he carried out a big plan to help Juliet leave Verona. This plan had many things that could go wrong, but he still attempted even to his own inconvenience. “And hither shall he come; he and I will watch thy waking” (IV, i, 115-116). There are people that do think that he followed formalism, however, this must be false because the Friar did not follow every law and rule that there was, even in his plan for getting Juliet out of Verona. This is why the Friar followed Utilitarianism in act …show more content…

Many people think that Friar Lawrence is, in part, responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. One reason for this is because it was his plan to get them back together that failed, resulting in this tragedy. “Hold, then. Go home, be merry, give consent/ To marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow.… Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua” (III, i, 89-90, 117). This shows that the Friar tells Juliet a plan that will make them happy, but unfortunately ends up being unsuccessful. Another reason is that he himself thinks that he might be to blame for some of it. “...and if aught in this/ Miscarried by my fault, let my old life/ Be sacrificed some hour before this time…” (V, iii, 266-268). This shows that he even might think it to be his fault in some way. There are some that think that this is implausible, but instead think it was all in fault of the animosity of the feuding families. However, given the evidence, this tragedy still could have been avoided if the friar's plan worked or was not even made at all. That is why it is partly Friar Lawrance’s fault the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

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