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Fate And Friar Lawrence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Matthew Way, Zach Lowe, Ronan Brim, and Hudson Fucanan Ms. Siggard English 9 15 May 2023 Fate and the Friar “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” (Prologue 6). Shakespeare begins this tragic tale by giving us a glimpse of fate’s role in this play. In William Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet fall madly in love despite their family’s long-standing feud. It all starts to go south due to the death of Mercutio and Tybalt. Friar Lawrence tries to remedy things with an ill-advised plan that does not work due to a series of unfortunate events which leads to the lovers taking their own lives. Although Romeo and Juliet physically committed the acts that ended their own lives Fate and Friar Lawrence are ultimately …show more content…

However, Fate's cruel hand guided the two households to meet on a day when tensions were high “I pray thee, good Mercutio, Let’s retire. The day is hot, the Capels are abroad, and if we meet we shall not ‘scape a brawl,” (III.i. 1-4). The chances of the two families running into each other are slim and this was only magnified by the heat. Without fate guiding the families into a fight Mercutio would never have died and Romeo would never have had to go into exile. People who think Tybalt is to blame blatantly overlook Fate and Friar Lawrence’s role in their tragic …show more content…

When Friar John gets back, Friar Lawrance asks John what Romeo’s response was to his letter. John then tells him he was unfortunately unable to deliver the letter. “Suspecting that we both were in a house Where the infectious pestilence did reign, Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth, So that my speed to Mantua there stayed”(V.ii. 217). Friar John was on his way to deliver Friar Lawrences’s letter to Romeo, but fate had another plan. She placed an illness in the town John was in and he was forced to quarantine; because of this, Romeo was unable to receive the letter which then leads to him making the reckless decisions leading to the end of his and Juliet’s life. If Romeo had known about the plan he would not have killed

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Thus, Romeo is not aware that Juliet is actually alive when he visits her, and consequently ignores the signs of her awakening. His death is unfortunate because it could have been avoided had he been properly informed about Juliet’s “death”. The friar did not account for possible faults in his plan, and his impulsiveness ultimately led to Romeo’s

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