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Romeo And Juliet Pardoned Analysis

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Pardoned or Punished? “These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die.” (2.6.9). Friar Lawrence attempted to warn Romeo and Juliet and told Romeo that they weren’t actually in love but that didn’t stop Romeo from pushing Friar Lawrence to marry him and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, Benvolio should be pardoned and Nurse and Friar Lawrence should be punished. Benvolio should be pardoned. Benvolio should pardoned because he just wanted to keep peace and didn’t want to harm anybody. “I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, or manage it to part these men with me.” (1.1.82). Another reason why he should be pardoned is because he tried to stop the fighting at the beginning of the play. Another reason why he should be pardoned is because he was trying to cheer Romeo up by bringing him to the party. Benvolio told Tybalt to stop fighting fighting and to calm down and to keep peace so the Capulet/Montague feud can possibly end when Tybalt tried to fight Romeo at the Capulet party. This example proves that Benvolio should be pardoned because he was trying to stop everybody from fighting. Benvolio wanted to keep peace so that's why he should be pardoned. Nurse should be punished. Nurse should be punished because she knew that Romeo and Juliet were married and she didn’t tell anybody about it, so that caused all of this to happen. “Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away?” (1.4.1).This shows that she new about the marriage and because of that, she should be punished because she caused Romeo and Juliet to kill herself. Also because of this it caused Lady Montague to kill herself …show more content…

With all of the evidence stated, who would've thought that Nurse and Friar Lawrence would’ve been the reason for Romeo and Juliet dying. If everyone would of listened to Friar Lawrence, then everything would have turned out

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Around 1594 Shakespeare wrote the romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet. This story has an intricate plot line; the two lovers prevail from rivaling families, after falling in love they marry and intend to run away to live together. From thereafter a series of actions taken by a number of the characters leads to their deaths. Despite the Nurse helping Juliet on numerous occasions, Friar Lawrence was at fault because he didn’t succeed in telling Romeo about the details of Juliet’s plan, created the plans that causes their deaths, and married the couple.

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The tale of Romeo and Juliet ends with the death of the two lovers. But there is a reason behind their passing. Friar Lawrence, a priest in Verona, had a big part of the play, and may be the reason for Romeo and Juliet to lay still forever in their graves. The friar was the one that devised the plan to fake Juliet’s death, but ran away in cowardice when he was afraid.

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The friar should be convicted of involuntary manslaughter for both Romeo and Juliet. The friar married both Romeo and Juliet hoping to end the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets, while this may have worked, it also caused many deaths. So that

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As they arrange a marriage behind everyone’s back, everything seems to be testing them; including a fight that broke out and ended in Tybalt’s murder and Romeo being banished from his hometown, Verona. Juliet could not go without being with her love, Romeo, and quickly had to find a way to be with him before her other marriage that her father arranged for her took place. As the friar arranges a plan for the two star-crossed lovers to reunite, things don’t work out the way they’re supposed to and end in the deaths of both characters. In Shakespeare’s, “Romeo and Juliet” Friar Laurence is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths because he is devious and has a poor planning ability.

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Benvolio did whatever he could to stay away from trouble and getting into fights. He says “The day is hot; the Capulets abroad; / And if we meet we shall not ‘scape a brawl, / For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring (Shakespeare III. i. 2-4). This shows that he tried to stay away from fighting with the Capulets because he knows Romeo is in love with a Capulet.

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In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence should be punished. Friar Lawrence gave Juliet the potion to fake her death. “Take thou this vial, being then in bed…” (Romeo and Juliet 4.1.96) Friar gave Juliet this potion so everyone had thought that she was dead. This caused Romeo to kill himself and leading up to Juliet then killing herself.

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Romeo and Juliet is known to be a tragedy. The Prince says that everyone is to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet. I think that Friar Lawrence, out of everyone, is the most to blame for the deaths. Although the Friar had the most part of it, Romeo’s death was bound to happen, but Juliet’s could’ve been prevented. He knew marrying the two was a bad idea, he explains why when he says, “Young men’s love then lies - Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes,” (Shakespeare 733) and when he says, “Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.”

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Imagine a trusted counselor who betrays others by giving terrible advice. In Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, a similar situation occurs among Friar Lawrence, Romeo, and Juliet. The opposition believes that Friar Lawrence would not be responsible and it would be Romeo and Juliet’s fault due to do the several years of the hatred toward the two families. After analyzing all the information, it is Friar Lawrence’s fault for the death and Romeo and Juliet because the Friar constantly left out valuable information that he is supposed to tell Romeo or Juliet.

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He should be pardoned because he was the peace-maker for the whole time and he always tried to maintain peace every time. “ Part, fools! Put up your swords, you know not what you do!(1.1.60). This quote says that he is trying to calm down Mercutio and Tybalt to stop fighting with each other. Benvolio should be pardoned because he cheered Romeo up when he was sad.

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Furthermore, I also believe that Friar Laurence is guilty because, He went and married Romeo and Juliet in secret. In act 2 scene 6 is where he marries Juliet to Romeo. He knew that they just only met the night before. Even though his intentions were good he acted to hastily. He hoped by marrying the Romeo and Juliet he could end all the fighting.

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Benvolio should be pardoned. In act 1 scene 1 Benvolio he tries to stop the servants from fighting. “Part fools”. He didn’t break any laws and he didn’t fight . Another reason why he should be pardoned.

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