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How Did Romeo And Juliet Make Mistakes

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Everybody makes mistakes, no matter how old. All of the characters made mistakes, some bigger than others. There could have been a lot of people to blame for all of things that happened to Romeo and Juliet. Everyone had something they did that turned into something bad. The main person that caused all of the problems was Friar. He had the most to blame for everything because he was selfish. He married Romeo and Juliet in secret, which was the worst. He gave Juliet a potion to make it look like she is dead for 42 hours. He came up with a plan to “kill” Juliet which the message of the plan never reached Romeo in Mantua in time. This stirred multiple problems within both the Montague and Capulet household. When the Friar first married Romeo and …show more content…

That was the worst thing he could have done. When he made it, he was going to have another friar deliver the message to Romeo. Well what had happened was the other firar couldn’t leave Verona because of a plague. The message with the plan never reached Romeo, but he heard that his wife was dead. Once he caught wind of this news he wanted to go back to Verona to see Juliet one last time. On his way he bought a potion to kill himself so he could spend eternity with her. But she wasn’t actually dead yet. After Romeo killed Paris at the Capulet's tomb, he killed himself to be with her, then she woke up! The Friar then came to see what had happened, he found Juliet awake with Romeo and Paris dead next to her. Juliet told him to go away, then she stabbed herself. “... This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” (Shakespeare 475). When Paris came to Friar talking about marrying Juliet, it would have been a lot smarter of him to tell Paris that she was already married. If he told about the marriage, that way nobody would’ve died. In the book, “The Book Thief,” a girl named Liesel starts to steal books to learn to read. The books she is stealing are books that the Nazi Party in Germany wants to get rid of and burn. “I don’t need to trade anymore cigarettes, you’re stealing these things as fast as i can buy them.” (Zusak, 67). Leisel knew she should not have taken the book, she knew it was wrong, much like Friar knew it was

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