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Examples Of Mishap In Romeo And Juliet

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Mail Mishap In the story Romeo and Juliet, Friar John failed to deliver a letter about Friar Lawrence’s plan a simple mistake lead to grave consequences, the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet. However, it was Romeo’s choice to get poison to kill himself to be with Juliet which pushed Juliet to kill herself when she found out that he was dead. Romeo was ultimately responsible for his own death and that of Juliet’s. He was the one who asked for, ”A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear as will disperse itself through all the veins” (Rom.5.1.60-61). If he didn’t rush to buy the poison of his own will and take it to die next to the sleeping Juliet, he would have gotten the letter eventually. Even though a bit late he still would have found another way to …show more content…

However, Romeo wouldn’t have bought the poison and tried to kill himself if he had received the letter that Friar John was supposed to deliver. Friar John should have delivered the letter, but he could not because, “Finding him, the searchers of the town, Suspecting that we both were in a house where the infectious pestilence did reign, Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth”(Fri John.5.2.8-11). If Friar John had focused on delivering that letter instead of waiting for his friend who was stuck in quarantine, he could have gotten the job done with ease. That letter was of great importance and if he had just went without delay straight to Romeo instead of stopping to wait for his friend he would have gotten the letter to Romeo in time and Romeo and Juliet would have not died. Therefore the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is Friar John’s fault. Romeo would have never gotten the idea to kill himself if he had just received the letter from Friar John in time, he would have known Friar Lawrence’s plan that his love is not truly dead and they could have lived happily ever after. Many characters in this story contributed to the demise of Romeo and Juliet’s death, but Friar John was truly responsible for their

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The letter needed to get to Romeo so he would be aware that Juliet was not actually dead. By this point, Friar Laurence should be expecting the unexpected. Romeo’s and Juliet’s threats of suicide if they couldn’t be together should alert the friar that the flaws in his plan could lead to death for Romeo or Juliet or both. Subsequently after Juliet drank the vial, Friar Laurence made three lesser mistakes; yet, these mistakes would still lead to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence made his first mistake when he encountered Friar John, who was sent to Mantua to deliver the message to Romeo that Juliet was indeed alive.

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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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Friar Lawrence would take most of the blame for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet because he was an adviser to them and he was the one who gave Juliet the idea of drinking a 42hr sleeping potion which was not a good idea. He did everything he could to save this relationship but did he ever think twice before doing it? The Friar knew what was going on between Romeo and Juliet yet, he didn’t tell them to slow down, sit and talk to them about their relationship or try talking with both families and try to end the feud between them (if that was the case). He should’ve done something to prevent this from happening. And also, he shouldn’t have given the sleeping potion to Juliet.

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Friar Laurence could have left everything alone and let Juliet get married to Paris. If Juliet really loved Romeo she would’ve ran to him and had an affair with him while she was still married to Paris. All in all, Friar Laurence is responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths because he didn't make sure his plan went

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Everyone makes mistakes in life. Some, more major than others. In the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the mistakes made by Romeo caused the tragedy. Romeo was a well spoken, but kind of shy person. He thought he found love at first sight when he met Juliet at a party, but he went too fast.

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This quick solution, made by Romeo, caused the deaths of Paris, who was killed by Romeo while on the way to Juliet’s tomb, Juliet, who awoke to Romeo’s dead body and chose to take her life to be with him, Lady Montague, who died the instant she heard of Romeo’s death, and Romeo himself, through drinking poison. The reasoning for the letter being unable to reach Romeo, according the Friar John was ‘So fearful were they of infection (Shakespeare 5:2 Line 17)’. This proves the point that Friar Laurence only relied on people within the church system rather than an outside force. The death of the four characters could have been avoided if Friar Laurence had relied on the Montague’s messenger boy, Balthasar, who easily was able to inform Romeo about Juliet’s supposed death could have also easily given Friar’s letter to Romeo which would have, in the end, caused the deaths of these four characters to be avoided in the long

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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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So he wanted to kill himself and he did. Only because Friar Lawrence gave Juliet that potion. Friar Lawrence also failed to get the plan to Romeo and that caused Romeo to emotionally breakdown. Friar John did not get the letter to him because they would not let him out, so it is not Friar John’s fault. Friar Lawrence should have planned

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Friar Lawrence is to blame for this reason because when he was going to send the letter to Romeo telling him about the potion and telling Romeo that Juliet actually isn’t dead. He should have told his messenger that it was very important and needed to be there immediately. Instead the messenger missed Romeo because he was to late, and Romeo was already on his way to kill himself. I also think that Friar Lawrence should have delivered the message personally, then he could have told Romeo what the plan was and how Juliet is actually still alive. I also think that matters should have been dealt with differently and personally.

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In William Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet, there are a multitude of unnatural events that occur. The star-cross’d lives of Romeo and Juliet take place during Renaissance time in which many believed that unnatural events caused by humans resulted in a tumult of events that erupted, often malicious, as Shakespeare's tragedy exemplifies. The first instance of an unnatural event occurs when Romeo attends the Capulet’s party, even after his dream of a malicious event occurs (I iv 105). This event is unnatural because the stars warned him of the malous events that would occur if he went to the party, so he defied the stars throwing off the balance of the Earth. Another instance of an unnatural event happens when Romeo falls in love with Juliet

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We all make bad decisions everyday. For example, watching TV when you have a bunch of homework to do, or playing video games all day instead of going outside to play. Now even though these are bad decisions, they don’t really seem to affect us long term. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, so many bad decisions are made that it leads to the death of two young teenagers that are in love, even though their families are bitter enemies. Throughout the play, their decisions keep getting worse and worse.

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Since the letter did not get delivered to Romeo, Friar Laurence is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Furthermore, Friar Laurence is to blame because he did not do something he promised to the newly-married couple. He says, “...til we can find a time to blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back” (Shakespeare 1060). This quote shows Friar had promised to bring forth their marriage after the public had calmed down about the deaths in the brawl Romeo was in.

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Friar Lawrence asked this to John. Friar John could not deliver that letter because of an infection, the Black Plague. I don’t know why Lawrence didn’t just deliver the letter himself and not put his responsibilities on somebody else. He was just trying to help, but resulted in the death of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris. If Romeo would have got the letter, then he would have never gone and bought that poison and killed himself in the Capulet’s tomb.

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Friar Laurence is to blame as well because if he would have went and told Romeo personally about the plan which was to put Juliet to sleep for 42 hours and when she woke up Romeo was to be there at her side. If Friar Laurence wasn 't lazy Romeo 's death could have been avoided. Next, Friar Laurence would have went into the Monument with Juliet waiting for Romeo instead of showing up after; Romeo would have not assumed that Juliet was dead and then proceed to kill himself. Friar had the chance to fix the previous mistake of not talking to Romeo face to face. I say that because when he found out that the letter didn 't get to Romeo he should have went to the Tomb where Juliet was and sat there with her until she awakened and explained to her what happened and sat together waiting for

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