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Comparing Act 3 Scene 5 Of William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet is a writing on two star crossed lovers who will do anything to be with the one they love. They come from two families who can’t stand each other, and who are always trying to start a fight. The lovers met at a masked party and fell in love with each other the second they say each other and started talking. They agreed to get married but that was a hard task to fulfill, considering their families hate each other. Romeo goes to the friar and asks him to marry them. This is the start of all the trouble, this is the start to how the friar killed Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence decided to marry Romeo and Juliet because he thought it would end they’re family feuds, he wanted to be the hero by ending the feuds. He honestly was …show more content…

The plain was that Romeo was going hide in Mantua. Juliet was to sleep alone and drink a potion that he made her. “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off, when presently through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse shall keep his native progress but surcease.”(Act 3 scene 5). This quote says that Juliet will go to sleep alone and drink the potion that will cause her to fall asleep and stay asleep for 42 hours. It will seem like she died in her sleep, she will be cold to the touch and her cheeks will lose color. When her family finds her they will have a funeral for her and they will leave her in the Capulet tomb. And after 42 hours Romeo and the Friar will be there to wake her so Romeo and her can run away together. There was one flaw to his plan of course, he would have to tell romeo the news, but he is in …show more content…

In order for Romeo to find out about the plan, the Friar needs to write a letter to Romeo. I see so many problems with this, so many things could go wrong. “I could not send it - here it is again- (gives Friar Lawrence a letter)” (Act 5 scene 2). Friar Lawrence gave Friar John a letter and asked him to deliver it to romeo before this quote was said. But in this quote Friar John is telling Friar Lawrence that he was not able to deliver the letter to Romeo because he was on house arrest because he was thought to of had the plaque. This is very bad news because Romeo does not know the plan. This causes Balthasar to see Juliet being carried into the tomb, and he runs to tell Romeo that she has died. This causes Romeo to go see for himself that she had died. But first he stopped to see the apothecary so that he could give him a death potion, and when he showed up to the tomb he found Juliet sleeping but he thought she was dead. So he drank the potion and he died, but soon after Juliet woke up to find him dead and she killed herself to be with him. If the friar never made her the potion they wouldn't both be

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Friar John told Friar Laurence, “I could not send it [the letter] - here it is again - nor get a messenger to bring it to thee, so fearful were they of infection.” Romeo did not receive the letter, which was vital to the plan. Without the letter, Romeo would think that Juliet was truly dead. At this point, Friar Laurence should be rushing to the cemetery because Romeo could be there, yet he waited hours before going to the cemetery. “Now must I to the monument alone; within three hours will fair Juliet wake.”

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The friar responds with: Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distillèd liquor drink thou off, When presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse. (IV i 94-96) The Friar's plan was to have Juliet drink a potion that made her fall into a deep enough sleep as if she was dead. This plan had many glaring holes!

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He had given Juliet, who was begging for help, a small vial containing the liquid that would fake Juliet’s death. When the time had come, he depended too much on Friar John, and Romeo received the wrong news. Romeo had thought that Juliet was dead and went back to Verona with a bottle of poison to kill himself. Quickly, Friar Lawrence ran to stop him, only to find Romeo dead and Juliet waking up.

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The letter would’ve let Romeo know that Juliet wasn’t actually dead, but in a deep sleep for a few more hours. Friar Lawrence gave the letter to Friar John to give the letter to Romeo instead of delivering it himself (Shakespeare, 898-899). Then, Friar John couldn’t get the letter to Romeo, so Balthasar’s news all that Romeo could believe. (Shakespeare 916). Because of this, Romeo kills himself to be with Juliet, and when Juliet wakes up to Romeo being dead, she kills herself so she can be dead with Romeo (Shakespeare 924-926).

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He was so preoccupied that he never got his letter to Romeo about how Juliet’s death was fake. He was unprepared and never spoke of how import the letter was to be delivered, “The letter was not nice but full of charge, of dear import and the neglecting it may do much danger. ”(5, 2, 18-20). The letter that was supposed to be sent to Romeo never got to him and that is why he went and killed himself by Juliet's fake grave. Overall it is Friar Lawrence’s choice to not make the sending of the letter an important

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He sent Friar John to give Romeo a letter about his plan and he came back saying “I could not send it” (4.1.14) Friar Laurence put too

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After Friar Lawrence gives the vial to Juliet, Friar Lawrence told her that he would write a letter to Romeo explaining the plan, and later when friar john comes back to Friar Lawrence, tasks the letter that he had sent out was given to Romeo, Friar John says no and now Friar Lawrence knows that Romeo now knows nothing about what is going on. "I could not send it - here it is again - / Nor get a

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Now that Juliet is (unwillingly) being wed to Paris, the Friar sees a solution in a vial of poison that will make Juliet seem as though she’s dead. His warning speech goes: “Take thou this vial, being then in bed / And this distilled liquor drink thou off / When presently through all thy veins shall run / A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse / Shall keep his native progress, but surcease” (Act 4, Scene 1). Essentially, the Friar is warning Juliet of what how the poison will affect her. He instructs her to lay in bed as if asleep, and drink the liquid.

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However, Juliet is already married to Romeo. So due to this Juliet tries to ask her parents to stop the marriage, but they get extremely mad and say no. She then runs to Friar Lawrence to ask him for some help on what to do with the marraige. The Friar comes up with a plan to bring Juliet and Romeo together again. He gives her a potion that will put her to sleep for pretty much two days.

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4.1.123-124). Accordingly Friar Lawrence plans to send the letter to Romeo by getting another friar to deliver it. Friar Lawrence’s plan failure is the partial cause of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence’s letter does not get delivered to Romeo: Going to find a barefoot brother

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Juliet is devastated so she goes to Friar Lawrence for help. Friar comes up with a plan for Juliet to take a potion to make herself seem dead for two and forty hours, when Juliet awakes Romeo would be there to take her to Mantua. Juliet’s parents can believe that she is dead because “Each part, deprived of supple government,/ Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death” (Shakespeare 5.1. 102-103). As part of Friar Lawrence’s plan, he sent Friar John to tell Romeo about the plan, but word got to Romeo about Juliet’s death before Friar John could tell Romeo about the plan. As it is made obvious, everyone thinks that Juliet is actually dead except for Friar Lawrence, Friar John, and Juliet.

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She is in as much haste about getting married and running away as Romeo is. Whether or not he is more excited than she is, she goes along with what Romeo plans. This causes her to make a big mistake; Juliet pretends to be thrilled about marrying Paris, so her father pushes the wedding ahead one day. In turn Juliet takes the pation to make her seem dead a day early, which offsets her and Friar Laurence’s plan. Friar Laurence does not know Juliet is taking the potion a day early, therefore he does not tell Romeo about the plan in time.

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Everyone believes that Juliet is dead and when Romeo finds her asleep in the tomb, he drinks poison to save himself from his misery. If Friar would have planed to tell Romeo instead of Friar John, his plan may have been successful. When Romeo goes to the Capulet’s tomb and sees Juliet “dead” he drinks a poision and immediately dies. Shortly after, Juliet awakes from her slumber and also kills

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Heartbroken, he found Juliet’s body, still affected by the potion on her tomb. He drank a poisonous potion so he could die beside her. When Juliet did eventually awake, she was greeted with the sight of her dead lover and stabbed herself

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After Romeo was banished, Friar Laurence and Juliet planned a way for her to not have to marry paris, since her and Romeo were already married, and for her to be with Romeo. He gave her a potion to that made her sleep for 48 hours and made everyone think she was dead. When she took the potion, Friar Laurence was suppose to tell Romeo to go to her tomb to get her so that they could leave the city and live together. Romeo got there, but thought Juliet was dead, because Friar Laurence didn't pull through and get the message to him in time. Instead Romeo’s servant told him.

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