Who Was Responsible For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet Essay

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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare concerns two young, unfortunate lovers who die in the name of love. These lovers fall in love at first sight at a masquerade ball. However, their families are in a feud making it hard for them to marry each other which ultimately, leads to the deaths of the youngsters. Those who bear the most responsibility in the deaths of the adolescent teens include Lord Capulet, Mercutio, and Friar Laurence. To begin with, in act 3, scene 5, Romeo didn’t want to have a duel with Tybalt anymore since they were cousins now as Romeo and Juliet recently got engaged. As Romeo talks to Tybalt out of the dual, Tybalt realized Romeo does have a plausible reason on why they shouldn’t fight each other. However, …show more content…

As Friar Laurence is an adult, he shouldn’t have agreed to marry the young couple in the first place. He did so because he believed the wedding would end the feud between the capulets and montagues. Despite the fact that his heart was in the right place, he ignored the possibility that several things could go wrong. Furthermore, he failed an essential aspect of his plan. He didn’t think of his plan through as everything was extremely rushed and unorganized. His plan was for Juliet to consent to marry Paris. Afterwards, she will drink a sleeping potion the night before her wedding that will make her appear dead. Friar Laurence gives a letter to Friar John to be delivered to Romeo. The letter was supposed to be delivered just in time to Romeo so he would have enough time to come to Verona and reunite with Juliet as she woke up. However, the wedding was rushed to occur a day earlier than planned. This affected the entire scheme since the letter would never reach Romeo in time. When the news of Juliet’s “death” reached Romeo, the letter was nowhere near him as Friar John failed to deliver it. Romeo quickly rushed to Verona and killed himself besides Juliet, only for her to wake up minutes after Romeo’s death. Juliet’s death could have been prevented but Friar Laurence was too concerned about his own life to try to stop Juliet from committing

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