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Romeo And Juliet Problems

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Many problems and issues have occurred throughout “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare. Friar Lawrence has caused some of these issues that easily could of been prevented. He is supposed to be the one that gives good advice to those who need it, and instead he is the one who made Romeo and Juliet married, and the one who put Juliet to sleep for a long period of time during the marriage of Paris and Juliet. If the Friar didn’t marry Romeo and Juliet, these problems most likely wouldn’t have occured. Romeo and Juliet could of not both died so young, and so soon. If Romeo had not married Juliet, and married Rosaline instead, none of this would of happened. They both could of easily stayed alive for a much longer time. Instead, Romeo and Juliet got married all because of the Friars influence. Without the influence of the Friars decision, they both wouldn't of died as early as they …show more content…

He even admits that he is the one who married them, when he was saying everything that was going on through his mind at the time. ¨I will be brief, for my short date of breath Is not so long as is a tedious tale. Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet; And she, there dead, that's Romeos faithful wife. I married them; and their stolń marriage day Was Tybalt's doomsday, whose untimely death Banished the new-made bridegroom from this city... ¨ (Romeo and Juliet, 477). This quote shows that Friar Lawrence admitted that he is the cause of these problems, when he was going through what was on his mind. Friar Lawrence also admitted that he is the cause of the death of both Romeo and Juliet. ¨I am the greatest, able to do least, Yet most suspected, as the time and place Doth make against me, of this direful murder; And here I stand, both to impeach and purge Myself condemne´d and myself excused¨ (Romeo and Juliet, 477). This quote shows that the murder of Romeo and Juliet, was his

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