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Romeo And Juliet Death Analysis

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In a few short days a pair of young teenagers quickly fall in ‘love’ and find out that they are kin of two feuding families. In a short time period they will succumb to their deaths and end the everlasting feud. In the first act of Romeo and Juliet, fate brought the two “star-crossed lovers” together at the Capulet party. Less than four days later they are pronounced dead. Friar John was quarantined before he was able to deliver the crucial message from Friar Lawrence to Romeo explaining the plan for them to run off and leave Verona. Fate brought Romeo to the Capulets’ party that night, caused Friar John to not deliver the letter, and ultimately the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Fate is responsible for all six deaths in Romeo and Juliet. Fate, …show more content…

The Friar arrived too late to stop Romeo from killing himself and tries to save Juliet from the same fate. Juliet sees Romeo laying next to her and comments “O churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them…” Juliet sees that there is no poison left and grabs Romeo's dagger and stabs herself and immediately dies. Paris’ page brings the watchmen who spot the blood from Paris and Romeo’s duel and see the bloody swords. They notice Friar Lawrence and Balthasar near the tomb and call them over. The prince arrives and has Friar Lawrence explain the secret marriage and what happened to Romeo and Juliet a few moments earlier. Lord Capulet and Lord Montague shake hands and agree to put the feud far behind them. Both families agree to build statues of the two “star-crossed lovers” out of gold and then the prince takes them away to discuss the plans and preparations for this. “A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd. For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo” ( V iii 305-310). The Prince acknowledges the difficult peace that comes from all the deaths in the play. The Capulet and Montague feud is over, but Lord Montague points out the horrible costs of that peace. Many lives were taken in this play such as Paris, Lady Montague, Tybalt, Mercutio, Romeo, and

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Juliet comes to Friar Lawrence's sell for guidance on what to do so she will not have to marry Paris, the Friar has a plan. Friar says to go home and tell Capulet that she will marry Paris, make the nurse sleep in a different room because the Friar has a potion that will make Juliet seem dead. He will send a letter to Romeo that will tell him about the plan so Romeo can come get Juliet from the Capulet tomb(Shakespeare 778 4.2.89-120). The Friar had a good plan to get Juliet out of marrying Friar but his letter never got to Romeo, leading him to believe that Juliet is dead, causing him to commit suicide. Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo dead in the tomb and kills herself.

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Heartbroken to see him dead,she kisses him hoping for a kiss of death but she had no luck. She spots a dagger on Romeo and seals her own fate ,”Oh happy dagger,this is thy sheath!”. In the end,the King and Queens of the Montagues and the Capulets are brought together in woe grieving over their dead children. If it were not the pressure between the two kingdoms, the couple would not have to perform such a drastic act of

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In the morning, the nurse discovers her and pronounces her dead. Of all the things the Friar has done so far, giving Juliet the poison is the worst of his actions. As the Friar’s plan goes, Romeo did not receive the letter from the servant describing the situation of how Juliet is not dead, only sleeping. Romeo then kills himself when he sees his ‘dead’ wife, and when Juliet rises only to see her dead husband, she ends her life with a

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Juliet does not wish to get married to Paris, since she had married Romeo, and still, no one has found out. Friar helps Juliet, friar gives Juliet a potion to drink, this will make her look dead for two days, when she is actually sleeping. Romeo is been banished from Verona because of two deaths, Tybalt and Mercutio. While Juliet has drunk this, romeo has no clue what is going on. Friar sends a letter, as he send this letter, he send out Friar John a messenger to give his letter to Romeo, but it does not get to him.

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So, they both died for each other. In the end the Capulets and Montagues finally realized what their years of feuding had done. “ O brother Montague give me thy hand./ this is my daughter's jointure, for no more / can and demand.” (act 5 scene 3 306-308) Sir Montague told Capulet he would have a statue of Juliet made in pure gold. “ for and will ray her statue in pure gold”,

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Romeo and Juliet, the two star-crossed lovers, destined to be together, both meet their tragic demise because of the work of one character. Meeting at a party, it was love at first sight. Romeo followed Juliet home, and they agreed to get married the next day. Friar Lawrence, the priest at the Verona church, was asked to marry them. Taking this as an opportunity to bring together the two warring families of the lovers, he made many rash decisions.

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This horrible communication between them leads to Romeo hearing about her death from Balthasar, Romeo’s servant. As usual, he panics and decides to search for poison. Due to the miscommunication, Friar Laurence sees both Romeo and Juliet’s bodies

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Romeo approaches the Friar the morning after him and Juliet meet in hopes that he will marry them. Knowing that marrying them will lead to trouble, the Friar refuses but shortly after he comes up with the idea, “This alliance may so happy prove / To turn your households’ rancor to pure love”(2.391-92). In the rushed marriage of Romeo and Juliet, the Friar is aware the marriage will end badly, but he believes that it will help the town of Verona by solving the feud of the Montagues and Capulets. Romeo and Juliet have both just been found dead due to their marriage and their parents’ hatred. The Friar begins to reiterate the story and the causes of their deaths, ending with, “Miscarried by my fault, let my old life / be sacrificed some hour before this time / unto the rigor of severest law”(5.3.267-269).

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