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Reasons For Friar Lawrence's Deaths In Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is the tragic story about two lovers in Verona whose families are sworn enemies. Their three day loved resulted in the death of many including themselves, who take their lives in the end. In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, many people are responsible for the multiple deaths that occur, but Friar Laurence, Tybalt, and Juliet are the most to blame. Several people could be blamed for the deaths that occur in this play, one person to blame is Friar Laurence. Friar marries Romeo and Juliet in secret without telling anyone, including their families. Friar had a feeling that this would end badly but he marries them anyway, “These violent delights have violent ends” (Shakespeare 2.6.9). Friar should not have married them in secret. At some point Friar should have stepped in and told their parents, especially when Juliet’s parents were arranging for her to be married when she was already married to Romeo. Instead of telling her parents the truth he makes a potion for Juliet to drink …show more content…

Romeo is at fault for the death of everyone in the play. Because he would not fight Tybalt, Mercutio got killed. Romeo killed Tybalt, got banished, and then killed himself. If he would have fought Tybalt then Tybalt would have been the only death, “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage To such a greeting. Villain am I none. Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not” (3.1.61-4) Romeo would not fight Tybalt because he is married to Juliet, who is Tybalt’s cousin. In the beginning of the play Romeo is in love with Rosaline but as soon as he sees Juliet his feelings automatically switch from Rosaline to Juliet. He tells her he wants to marry her the night they meet, “Th’ exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine” (2.2.127). Deciding to get married the night they meet shows how naive and impulsive

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I believe that Friar Lawrence could've cause the death of Romeo and Juliet. I blame Friar Lawrence because he had killed Juliet's cousin Tybalt but they had blamed Romeo for the death , so they locked Romeo up. Friar Lawrence could also be the killer because he wrote Romeo a note that wasn't inappropriate is was a bad not it wasn't nice at all.

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Jacob Stolzenburg 3/5/18 Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. The theme of this play is love. The character I choose is Friar Lawrence. The main cause of Romeo and Juliet death is from Friar interfering. Do to him trying to cause happiness he caused grief.

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Love resembles a fire, difficult to start, easy to set off, throughout Romeo and Juliet's journey, Friar Laurence is the water, setting off their love with the worst decisions he could possibly make. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, occurs many different scenes portraying the story of two star-crossed lovers, hence the name, to their lamentable death. But throughout this whole play, Friar Laurence was easily the magnet for the most chaos between their love, making very unintelligent decisions that lead to their death. Although Friar Laurence seems very helpful, he easily proves to cause the most disorder causing the inevitable death of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence admits countless times he couldn't help Romeo with his love affair, but the main problem was improper plan making, which lacks a large extent of time and thought.

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The blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are believed to be by Friar Lawrence and Tybalt because of a few reasons that would be further stated, the primary reason was because it was not necessary for Friar Lawrence to request Juliet's fake death that worried and frightened Romeo to commit suicide. Tybalt taunted Mercutio and killed him and enraged Romero so bad that Romeo drew his sword and killed Tybalt, now banished Romero mourned and after finding out about Juliet’s death(fake) he decided to get poison to kill himself after seeing Juliet one last time. The reason some people blame Friar Lawrence for Romero and Juliet’s death is quite simple, Friar Lawrence decided it would be a good idea to fake Juliet’s death so Romero can meet up and

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In the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, there was a tragic ending resulting in the deaths of the two main lovestruck characters, Romeo and Juliet. Every other character has a blame in their deaths. The character with the most blame, is Friar Lawrence because he married Romeo and Juliet secretly, gave Juliet a potion, and was a coward. The first thing Friar Lawrence did that resulted in the deaths, was secretly marry Romeo and Juliet.

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Friar Lawrence stated, “For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love.” (Act II, iii) The two lovers, even though married, were not allowed to see each other. Friar Lawrence’s decision to marry them was a mistake. He was also the person who came up with the plan for Juliet to fake her death, which ended horribly to say the least.

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Title Romeo and Juliet was a play written by William Shakespeare, in which it portrays how two teenagers fall in love. This couple must hide that they are together because their families have a feud against each causing them not being able to be together. Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin did not like Romeo he tried to fight him but ending in Tybalt’s death and Romeos banishment. Lord Capulet was speaking with a man named Paris so he could marry his daughter Juliet. When Juliet and Romeo cannot be together they take their own lives.

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William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is about the two families whose long-standing hatred led to the deaths of Romeo, the son of Montague, and Juliet, the daughter of Capulet. Even though there families have an ancient grudge they fell in love. After meeting they soon married but did not tell their families in fear of being separated. Soon after they married a chain of events lead to the death of them both which in some ways is there fault because both of them committed suicide, Romeo because he thought Juliet was dead and Juliet after she realized that Romeo had died. I think it is not Romeo and Juliet that are most responsible for the their death but Friar Lawrence and the disease in Mantua that kept Romeo from receiving a letter from Friar

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The Friar married Romeo and Juliet, made ‘’poison”  for Juliet to take, and didn’t get the letter to Romeo on time . It all started when Romeo first saw Juliet at a party that he crashed. They had spoke for bit and had fallen in love with each other. They had decided that the following day they would get married.

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In the play, the author states, “[Friar] O she knew well thy love did read by rote, that could not spell. But come, young waverer, come go with me. In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love” (2.3 87-92). Opponents may argue that Friar is to blame because he agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet even though at first he didn’t think it was a good idea. They may say this because Friar caused a lot of problems and marrying them was the start of it all.

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When someone takes their own life there must be a reason, right? In Romeo and Juliet, a famous tragedy written by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet fall deeply in love with one another, even though their families have been sworn enemies for ages. While everything seems to be going alright at the beginning of the play, at the end of the play both, Romeo and Juliet, end up killing themselves. Even though Romeo and Juliet took their own lives, their deaths are ultimately caused by Friar Lawrence, because his small actions, at the time, had a huge impact on the lives of Romeo and Juliet. The marriage of Romeo and Juliet, overseen by Friar Lawrence, was the first of many mistakes Friar made. He married Romeo and Juliet for all the wrong reasons.

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Many people have different opinions on who caused the deaths of Romeo and Juliet In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but the truth is, their deaths were Friar Lawrence's fault. Friar Lawrence helps them take actions they should not have done and did not properly explain what was happening to Romeo and Juliet. Friar makes bad choices throughout the entire play. He helped marry Romeo and Juliet without making plans to tell others, gave Juliet a potion to fake her death, and left Juliet alone at her most vulnerable. Friar Lawrence caused Romeo and Juliet’s death by acting hastily when marrying them.

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