Friar Lawrence To Blame For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet

In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, the two title characters have tragic self-inflicted deaths. Their double suicide could have been easily prevented by many people in their lives. Many disastrous factors and people played a role in the deaths of the star-crossed lovers, Romeo, and Juliet. Despite this the person who is most to blame for their deaths is Friar Laurence because, he gave them poor advice, he didn’t have a contingency plan to fall back on, and he allowed Romeo and Juliet to follow his plans even though they were not in the right mind to make important decisions. Firstly, Friar Laurence is the person who is most to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he gave both of them bad advice. He told Romeo to visit Juliet’s room on the day he was banished because he was lovesick for her, even though Friar Laurence knew it could end in death for Romeo. “Friar Laurence: Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off” (Shakespeare,

“Friar Laurence: Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo? Friar John: I could not send it” (Shakespeare, Act 5. Scene 2. Lines 13-14.). This quote shows how his plan failed and how he scrambled to figure out a way to fix his lapse of judgement. His hastily devised backup plan was unsuccessful and if he had thought to make one beforehand, he wouldn’t have had this problem. There were many things he could have done to prevent the major flaws in his plan such as giving the message telling Romeo of the plan for Juliet to take the potion himself, having a way to get Juliet out of the tomb she would be placed in before she took the potion, or placing another Friar outside of Juliet’s tomb to further insure the information was provided to Romeo. However, he did none of these things which lead to the premature death of the young