Friar Lawrence Is To Blame In The Tragedy Of Romeo And Juliet

With poor planning and feuding families, a challenge will never be completed correctly. Romeo and Juliet's deaths in William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet serve as an example of this. Following Romeo and Juliet's secret marriage brought about by their quarreling fathers and Romeo's exile, Friar Lawrence devises a disastrous plan that ends in their deaths. In William Shakespeare's play "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," rival families and shoddy planning by Lord Montague, Lord Capulet, and Friar Lawrence are to blame for Romeo and Juliet's deaths. Lord Montague's opinions of the Capulet family demonstrate that rival families and shoddy planning are to blame for Romeo and Juliet's deaths. The conflict within the Montague and

Old Montague is come/And flourishes his blade in spite of me” (1.1 78–79). Lord Capulet was driven to wage war against the rival family, taking their rivalry very seriously, which ultimately resulted in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. When Juliet talks to the nurse, she finds that "only love has sprung from my only hate!/Too early seen unknown, and known too late!/Prodigious birth of love it is to me/That I must love a loathed enemy” (1.5 152-155). The family rivalry fuels Romeo and Juliet's fear of how their parents will react if they date, contributing to their deaths. In spite of his insistence throughout the play that he wants his daughter to consent to a marriage, Lord Capulet becomes enraged when Juliet declines to wed Paris and declares, “But fettle your fine joints ’gainst Thursday next/To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church,/Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither./Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage!/You tallow face!” (3.5 157-162). Due to Lord Capulet's poor planning, Juliet fled to Friar Lawrence after his outburst and claimed that she needed his help to be with Romeo, resulting in Juliet's and ultimately Romeo’s