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Comparing Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet should have lived happily ever after. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a horrible tragedy. The Romeo and Juliet can avoid this tragedy if they make a few significant decisions. The fatal mistake of Juliet is to not tell her father about Romeo, because he was a Montague. Thinking that her father would not like Romeo, Juliet will not tell him. However, Lord Capulet actually thinks that Romeo was a respectable young man. If Romeo receives the letter from Friar Lawrence clarifying that Juliet is not actually dead; he will not rush to the tomb and to kill himself because his true love died. In Act V when Romeo looks at Juliet and kisses her lips, he should realize her skin and lips are still rose with blood. However, all of these dreadful things will indeed happen.
In the beginning, if Juliet tells Lord Capulet that she likes Romeo Montague this would kept miscommunication from happening. If only Juliet hears these words from her father’s mouth about Romeo, “Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone,/ He bears him like a portly gentleman;/” (Shakespeare 1.5.63-64). In this line Lord Capulet tells Tybalt Capulet that Romeo …show more content…

Friar Lawrence sends a letter to Romeo Montague that she was not dead and that Romeo needs to meet Juliet in her tomb when she awakes. Romeo does not receive this letter and he truly thinks Juliet died. Friar Lawrence gives the letter to Friar John. Calmly Friar John not realizing the importance of this letter tells Friar Laurence, “I could not send it,--here it is again,--/ Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,/” (Shakespeare 5.2.14-15). Friar John is not able to send the letter or give it to a messenger. If Friar John delivered this letter, Romeo will learn Juliet is not dead and will not kill himself. In conclusion, this letter is the reason why both Juliet and Romeo

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“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” The tragic story of Romeo and Juliet was caused by the mistakes of Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence developed a plan that would allow Romeo and Juliet to be together. However, Friar Laurence did not realize that his plan would have to go perfectly in order to be effective in a positive way. Friar Laurence made four crucial mistakes in his plan that would lead to the death of Romeo and Juliet.

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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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When Juliet learns she has to marry Paris, she turns to the friar for help, saying she will kill herself if he speaks “not of remedy” (4.1.68). Friar Lawrence plans to fake Juliet’s death and advises her to drink a vial with liquor which “When presently through all thy veins shall run / A cold and drowsy humor” (4.1.97-98). Yet he makes the unwise decision to let Romeo know by letter, saying that he’ll “send a friar with speed / To Mantua with [his] letters to thy lord” (4.1.125-126). However, he doesn’t think of the possible consequences, including the possibility of the letter being delayed. Unfortunately, Friar John is quarantined and the searchers of the town do “not let [him] forth”, so he is unable to deliver the letter (5.2.11).

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In the play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet was going to fake her death, so she does not have to marry Paris. Friar Lawrence sent Friar John to get the letter to Romeo, but Friar John could not because he was in a quarantine house because there was a

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Due to ineffective communication by Friar Lawrence, messages he attempts but does not succeed in conveying towards numerous characters jeopardizes the lives of Romeo and Juliet. Ineffective communication is conveyed clearly through the Friar’s actions when he leaves Juliet in the tomb in her time of distress, failing to ensure the delivery of the letter to Romeo thus not ensuring its safe delivery. Finally, he omitted the information of the wedding between Romeo and Juliet to their parents. Leaving Juliet in the tomb led to her death because she was clearly in a psychologically fragile state of mind. When people are fragile they do not think straight and they make rash decisions, such as suicide, that negatively affect themselves and others.

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Throughout the entire play, accidental miscommunications lead to miscommunications. But these ‘mistakes’ are actually something greater—they are a manifestation of fate. We know from the prologue that Romeo and Juliet are star-crossed, thats is, they are doomed to bad luck, and that they are fated to take their lives. When Friar Lawrence sends a letter to a banished Romeo, this fate they share causes the letter to never leave Verona at all. The messenger, Friar John, tells Friar Lawrence that “I could not send it—here it is again— (gives FRIAR LAWRENCE a letter) Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,”(Shakespeare, V.ii.14-16).

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Romeo and Juliet should have lived happily ever after. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare was a horrible tragedy. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet would have been avoided if they had made a few significant decisions. Lord Capulet actually thought that Romeo was a respectable young man and Juliet just implied because Romeo was Romeo Montague her father would not like him. If Romeo received had received the letter from Friar Lawrence clarifying that Juliet was not actually dead; he would not have rushed to the tomb and killed himself because his true love died.

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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 Lawrence was disappointed because the message never even made its way to Romeo. So, Friar’s plan is backfiring because that means Romeo really thinks that Juliet is dead. If Romeo got the message from Friar John then Romeo would not think that Juliet is actually dead and want to kill

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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that never had to happen. It was not fate as Romeo and Juliet think throughout the story. Destiny did not have to end in death. A person rather than the stars is responsible. Friar Lawrence is ultimately responsible for the whole situation.

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He could have easily avoided all the commotion if he delivered the letter himself. Furthermore, the plan was to have Romeo get Juliet but instead Friar Laurence had to do it. Friar Laurence goes to get Juliet from her tomb but makes mistakes along the way. He reaches Juliet but makes the mistake of leaving her when she needed him the most. Before running off Friar Laurence says, “Stay not to question, for the watch is coming.

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Since Romeo is banished from Verona Friar John had to journey to get the letter to him, however Friar John is delayed by quarantine and the letter about Friar Lawrence’s plan does not get to Romeo in time before he finds out himself. When Romeo finds out about Juliet supposedly dying he goes to find her and ended up committing suicide. Another piece of evidence says, "Thinking that the union of a Montague and

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In the play Romeo and Juliet, both Romeo and Juliet die. It would be easy to point blame as to why this happened at many of the characters in the play but Friar Lawrence is the biggest culprit. Although you could say that if their parents had allowed them to marry they never would have been in the situation, but it was Friars mistake that caused them both to die. Friar is the culprit because he provided the potion that would "kill" Juliet for 48 hours, and was expected and trusted to give word to Romeo that she was still alive and would wake up in two days. But, he failed to pass on that information, and instead Romeo told that Juliet was dead.

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(VI.ii.28-30) Friar Laurence had sent another Friar to give Romeo a letter that explains the plan, but Friar John wasn't able to send the letter because he was shut up in a quarantined house due to an outbreak of plague. Friar Lawrence becomes upset,

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¨For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo¨. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a story of two lovers who take their life all because of a misunderstanding. However, who is to blame for their tragic demise? The parents who made the two lovers feel like outcasts must be to blame. The Capulets forced Juliet to marry Paris, the constant fighting made them want to keep the marriage secret, and made Romeo and Juliet to scared to say anything.

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