Comparing Who's To Blame For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet

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BREAKING NEWS: Security camera footage of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet have been recovered. The deaths have been ruled out a suicide and a tragedy. Romeo who was a just fifteen at the time had fled from the scene of a police shooting and run inside of the Capulet Church where his star-cross lover Juliet was waiting. Friar Lawrence had planned to fake Juliet’s death so that the couple could be married without the worry of the two families disputing. This plan failed as Romeo had fallen for the fake death of Juliet and had been broken to the point of suicide. In the footage Romeo is seen talking the unconscious Juliet, as he poisons himself Juliet awakens from her deep sleep from the potion she had taken to fake her death. Romeo is seen in his last few seconds to be baffled by Juliet being alive. In retaliation Juliet, Romeos wife took his gun and shoot herself because she couldn’t imagine a world without him. The deaths were truly an unimaginable sequence of unfortunate events that led to the unlucky demise of the twain. Article 3: Who is to blame for the deaths …show more content…

The deaths are a very confusing tale and someone needs to be held responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. After the article came out yesterday most people seem to think that Friar Lawrence should be held accountable for the deaths because he planned for Juliet to fake her death. The authorities believe that Romeo is held accountable for his own death because he poisoned himself and if he looked down at Juliet for a few seconds he would have realised that she was alive. The most reliable reason for their death is the feud between their families because if the families weren’t being a dispute Romeo and Juliet could have been married without the attention and trouble that they had caused resulting in the fact that they wouldn’t have died. The authorities are holding both the deaths as a suicide and aren’t holding anyone