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Friar Is To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death Essay

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Love can drive one to do crazy things. This is shown in William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, where two people from feuding families meet at a party and fall in love with each other. They are not supposed to be together but go against their families wishes and get married; this leads to both Romeo and Juliet being dead by the end of the play. Friar Lawrence is most to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet as he married them, he gave Juliet a bad plan, and he left Juliet alone in the tomb with the dagger. Friar Lawrence holds the most blame in Romeo and Juliet’s deaths as he is the one who married them. Right before he marries Romeo and Juliet, Friar tells them that “These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die” …show more content…

As Friar and Juliet are talking about a plan to be with Romeo he says, “I do spy a kind of hope, / Which craves as desperate an execution” (Shakespeare 4.1.68-69). Friar does have a plan for Juliet but only someone extremely desperate would do it. If he knows that it would take a desperate person to do it, he knows it is not a very good, well thought-out plan. Juliet is desperate and is willing to take risks to be with the love of her life. Before going through with the plan and taking the poison, Juliet says to herself, “What if this mixture do not work at all” (Shakespeare 4.3.21). Juliet reconsiders going through with the plan. This is due to the fact that it was rushed and there was not much thought put into it. There are multiple ways it could go wrong and it does. If the plan went right, Juliet would have woken up in time and Romeo would still be alive. If Romeo was still alive, Juliet would be too as the only reason she killed herself was because she did not want to live a life without Romeo. Friar clearly holds blame as the plan he gave Juliet was untrustworthy and had a lot of

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