Who Is To Blame In Romeo And Juliet

All’s Fair in Love and War : Who’s to Blame? “For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo” (Shakespeare 910). In The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare in the Elizabethan era, a young couple named Romeo and Juliet fall in love. However due to their feuding families, Romeo being a Montague and Juliet a Capulet, their relationship must be kept in secret. And with this secret, the two entrust it with Friar Laurence, Romeo’s friend and advisor. Nonetheless, with the combination of Friar Laurence being the initial start of the trainwreck relationship by marrying Romeo and Juliet, his poorly created plans, and untimely disasters, the couple’s relationship is doomed from the beginning.

However as one can see from the article “What was Shakespeare’s England Like,” during Shakespeare’s time, friars were not to be trusted and were often involved in scheming plots: “Friars were portrayed as secretly lustful, and addicted to all kinds of sly plots and stratagems” (“What was Shakespeare’s” 67). Knowing that friars were often connected with crafty plots and were intrusive beings, Friar Laurence definitely did not help Romeo and Juliet out of goodness, but out of his own enjoyment with sly and manipulative motives. He has no intentions of bringing about peace between the families, but rather wishes to see the outcome of his devious planning. With the knowledge of friars being fun-seeking meddlers, Friar Laurence was undoubtedly only thinking of his own enjoyment from seeing the way his scheming plays