Who Is Responsible For Romeo And Juliet's Death

The play begins in the city of Verona where a brawl breaks out in the street between the families of the Capulets and the Montagues. Romeo, a Montague, decides that he was going to go the Capulet party to see Rosaline. When he arrives at the party, he doesn’t see Rosaline, but he sees Lord Capulet’s daughter Juliet. Later that night, Romeo arrives at Juliet’s balcony and confesses his love to her. Then, they get married only because Friar Lawrence thinks it will end the feud between the families. Later, Romeo encounters Tybalt, and Tybalt challenges him to a fight, but he refuses so Mercutio fights Tybalt and dies. Next, Romeo fights Tybalt to avenge Mercutio and kills Tybalt, but the prince arrives and banishes Romeo from the city. Juliet can’t stand to be without Romeo so she talks to Friar Lawrence, and he plots a plan to get them back together. The plan fails, and Romeo thinks Juliet is dead so he goes to her tomb and kills himself. Juliet awakens and decides to kill herself because she doesn’t want to live without Romeo. After the deaths of the two characters, the families agree to end the feud. The three people most responsible for the deaths of

When Juliet was going to drink the potion to get them back together, she thought the potion was a, “Poison, which the friar subtly hath ministered,” (P1079 L22-23) to have her dead. The friar could have tried to kill Juliet because it would solve the predicament he was in, and nobody would expect the friar to murder her. Also, he could have saved Juliet at the end of the play, when he left Juliet alone to find the corpse of Romeo. Then, she took Romeo’s dagger and stabbed herself, but the friar could’ve saved her if he had been there. If Friar Lawrence’s plan would’ve worked, Romeo and Juliet would be together in a different