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Examples Of Miscommunication In Romeo And Juliet

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Messengers, Not so Reliable In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, communication does not always work. The messengers often get there too late and the character most likely dies or misses a key part of the unfolding story. The Friars that are sent out to give a letter to someone that could help another person, aren’t delivered or are not delivered in time. Which ends up killing a character off or them not hearing of a plan. Miscommunication also shows up when people lie to each other or keep secrets. These lies start at the very beginning of the play when Romeo and Juliet meet at her party, and fall in love, but keep it to themselves because of their families’ feud. By the third act there have been numerous lies, secrets and miscommunications. Outside the party Tybalt, Mercutio and Romeo were arguing with each other for most of the beginning of the third act. Tybalt was insulting Romeo because he is a Montague. Mercutio got upset with Tybalt for calling Romeo names and insulting him, so he stepped in wanting to fight him. During the fight Romeo steps in to try to get them to stop since …show more content…

The letter was telling Romeo to come to the Capulets vault when Juliet awakes from her slumber so that they could get married. But Friar John was delayed, and did not get the message to Romeo. So Romeo broke into the vault and saw Juliet “dead” and drank the poison that he had on him. Moments later Juliet awakes from her sleep and sees Romeo dead next to her along with the poison bottle. Juliet drank the last of the poison from his lips and stabbed herself with his rusty dagger. “...Meantime I writ to Romeo, that he should hither come as this dire night, to help to take her from her borrowed grave, being the time the potion’s force should cease. But he which bore my letter, Friar John, was stayed by accident, and yesternight returned my letter

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All the difficulties and the bad situations that the lovers had gone through it were a result of Friar Laurence’s decision to remain silent. Secondly, Friar Laurence was not careful enough with the letter delivery as Romeo did not received it on time . This led Romeo to believe that Juliet was truly deceased and causing him to commit suicide. As well, when Friar John came back from Mantua, Laurence eagerly asked him about Romeo’s reaction to the letter, Friar John answered carelessly, “I could not send it -- here it is again--”(5.2.14). This quotation shows how much Friar John was inattentive about the importance of the letter, and how much Friar Laurence was incautious about informing Friar John how was the letter “full of charge” as he described to him later on.

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