There is much debate regarding Youth and Responsibility in the novel Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare. Some would argue Romeo's young and naive behavior led him responsible for the fatality. This is invalid since Romeo had no idea of Friar Lawrence and Juliet's real intentions for their reunion. In Romeo and Juliet, by Shakespare , the character most responsible for the tragedy was Friar Lawrance because of his careless solution to reunite Romeo and Juliet. A young vulnerable and desperate Juliet trusted Friar Lawrence to reunite her with her love Romeo. Juliet, very young and irresponsible, leaving Friar Lawrence's good intentions to lead to the misfortune in Shakespeare’s play. One reason why Friar Lawrence is reliable for the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet is because leading up to …show more content…
Eventually, Friar told Juliet he has a solution to prevent her from marrying Paris and reunite her and Romeo. Friar Lawrence also makes a somewhat persuasion to Juliet about the vial before she makes the decision. Another reason Friar Lawrence is to be blamed leading to the death of Romeo and Juliet is because Lawrence is the one who gave Juliet the potion to fake her death and send a letter to Romeo about their pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud / And, in this rage, with some great kinsmans bone / As with a club, dash out my desp’rate brains'' (Shakespeare 4.1-53-55) Friar Lawrence had many thoughts running through his head, such as if she should take the potion or not, would she die, and what would really be the outcome after taking the potion. Next, he gives Juliet the potion after Juliet agrees.“Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilling liquor drink thou off.” (Shakespeare 4.1.93-94). Juliet trusts Friar since she has known him for awhile and they are close friends and takes the vial of potion to fake her death and then reunite with Romeo. After awoken from the potion Lawrence was no way to be