Who Was Responsible For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet

Although there were a lot of causes, the main cause of Romeo and Juliet, a book written by William Shakespeare, deaths’ is fate. In other words fate is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death. In this case the word blame means to take full responsibility for. This is because of three main reasons; the king’s servant, Peter, Friar Lawrence the priest, and Paris wanting Juliet to love him.

One main cause of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths is fate with the king’s servant, Peter. In act 1, scene 2, page 21-25. The servant Peter just so happened to get chosen by the king to invite people over to the king’s home for a party. It also happens to be that he can’t read and he needs someone to help him read the list so he can follow the king’s orders. Peter

In act 2 scene 3, 6, act 4 scene 1 page 153 and 154. In act 2 scene 3 Friar Lawrence and Romeo talk about Romeo marrying Juliet the next afternoon even though he knew about Romeo’s last obsession with Rosaline a few days prior and he agrees with Romeo and agrees to marry them as soon as Romeo wishes even though he knows it’s a bad idea because he tells Romeo to slow down, but yet he didn’t do anything to slow him down, he just speeds up the process. Another instance is in act 2 scene 6 when Friar Lawrence marries Romeo and Juliet in private, when no one else knew about it. Later in the story the fact that he married them in private becomes a major problem because everyone believes that Juliet grieves for her brother when he gets killed by Romeo, when she is really grieving over the fact that Romeo got banished from the town in which she lives from killing her brother. This then leads the family to make Juliet to marry Paris earlier, which causes Juliet to drink a temporary killing potion. Since Romeo was banished he doesn’t know it’s temporary and he kills himself. Later when Juliet wakes up she sees him dead and is overcome so she kills herself, all because Friar Lawrence aggreed to marry them, married them in private, and gave Juliet a potion to make her appear temporarily