Romeo And Juliet Greed

The greed and self-interest of a person often leads to tragedies of their own making. The superficial love story of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare tells the story of two star-crossed lovers whose love is prohibited due to their parent's purportless feud inside Verona. As their love is forbidden, they do all they can to wed and be happy elsewhere, yet the constant intruding of affairs from all sides makes this all but possible. In their final plan, Juliet fakes her death due to her desire to see Romeo, and at this news, Romeo decides the best thing for himself is to take his life. He dies as Juliet arises from her slumber, and deciding her best choice is to join him, stabs herself with his dagger as the play concludes. The author's use of selfish self-regarding by his characters in the play is an allusion to the horrors of self-interest, not a romance.

Upon Romeo’s request to marry Juliet, the Friar initially absconds the child for being shallow, yet he somehow revokes this, saying, “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households’ rancour to pure love” (Shakespeare 2.3, 65-67). Without even considering how Juliet feels about all this or thinking of how this marriage will last, he instead chooses to marry the naive Romeo and Juliet, despite knowing its shallowness. As a member of the clergy, Friar Laurence doesn’t have much room to climb in terms of hierarchy, so he intentionally disobeys his supposed vows to God and not only marries them, despite religious rules, but actively covers his lying up to prevent anything bad happening to him, such as banishment or execution. The endless violations of his job as a man of God lead to not only his plans failing, but also the very people whom he tries to help end up dead, exposing the horrors of