When people (especially children) commit suicide, people usually want an explanation. In Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers kill themselves in the name of love, and by the end of the play, Prince Escalus and the rest of the characters need sometime to blame. There are many people who could be blamed for their deaths including the Capulets’, the Montagues’, Friar Lawrence, and Fate. While both families and Fate had a part in the tragedy, Friar Lawrence is mostly to blame. Fate is part of the reason that Romeo and Juliet die. In the prologue it states that Romeo and Juliet are “star-cross’d,” meaning that they were doomed from the beginning. (DBQ Doc. A Two Households)Throughout the play, multiple characters blame Fate for various unfortunate events. …show more content…
Both families, especially the Capulet’s, were very unsupportive of their children. Lord Capulet was going to go as far as disowning his own daughter because she did not want to marry Paris, a man twice her age.(DBQ Doc. D “Disobedient Wretch”) Also, the prologue states that both families have “fatal loins,” meaning that the feud between the two families will lead to their children’s deaths. Romeo and Juliet could not even tell their parents about their wedding or their love because they were afraid that they would disapprove and punish them, even though they were their own parents. The feud ultimately led to a number of untimely deaths and was partly to blame for the two teenager’s …show more content…
When Romeo first comes to talk to Friar Lawrence about marrying Juliet, Friar Lawrence is hesitant to perform the ceremony. He thinks that Romeo is moving too quickly, and that Romeo should not get married to a person he has just met. Despite his doubts though, he marries Romeo and Juliet behind their parent’s backs in the hopes that a marriage between the two families will end the feud. Friar Lawrence does not take into account how this will affect Romeo and Juliet. He even predicts that “These violent delights have violent ends,” meaning that he thinks that their love will end badly because it began so quickly.(DBQ Doc. C “I’ll Thy Assistant Be”) When Friar Lawrence tries to fix his mistake by helping Juliet when she refuses to marry Paris, he hurts Romeo and Juliet even more by giving Juliet the sleeping potion. He may be trying to help Juliet, but he is also trying to prevent someone else from finding out that he married Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence is the most at fault for the events leading up to and the deaths of Romeo and
In the play “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” the prince states that someone will be punished for Romeo and Juliet’s death, and in my eyes, I foresee that Friar Lawrence is going to get blamed dur to his elaborate plans and making them keep fighting. For example, why would Friar Lawrence let Romeo and Juliet if he knew that neither of the parents would have allowed it. “Come, come with me, and we will make short work. For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone Till holy church incorporate two in one.” That connects to my first claim because it shows how willingly and fast he wanted to get them married so they can have some alone time.
Friar Lawrence first comes to know of the couple through the hot headed Romeo. Friar Lawrence, being a citizen Verona, knows too well of the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. The Friar sees Romeo's feelings for Juliet as a possible way to end the feud. While this is righteous thing to do, and would indeed benefit all parties, Friar Lawrence does show to be a bit self interested at times. His hasty and radical methods, including having Juliet play dead, are done so as opposed to more conservative methods all in the hopes of ending the feud and the possible rewards to his reputation and his spiritual afterlife.
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence is to blame for the death of Romeo Montague. Friar shows a lack of wisdom when it comes to giving advice to Romeo on his wish to marry Juliet. He knows that Romeo was previously in love with Rosaline and, within one day, he has fallen in love with another girl. Instead of telling Romeo he needs to take time to get to know Juliet, Friar agrees to marry them that day.
Friar Lawrence does not take time to think what Romeo is asking of him. The friar instantly agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet in hopes of ending the families fray. If Friar Lawrence goes to Lord Montague and Capulet and explains the love of Romeo and Juliet that evening then the events will not end fatally. The friar knows that wedding these two lovers may end in disaster. The
The quote I just provided you show that Friar Lawrence encourages Romeo to find a new love now we all know what happened when he does but I’m pretty sure you’re not convinced. Later on in the play Friar Lawrence seems to look at Romeo as a son who does a lot of dumb stuff but at the same time he
Although, there are many factors that contribute to the deaths of Romeo & Juliet, fate is primarily responsible for these “star-crossed” lovers deaths, because fate drew them together and led them down the path that would eventually conclude in their deaths. Fate is responsible for the deaths of Romeo & Juliet due to the act of fate drawing Romeo & Juliet together (the night they met). Before Romeo attends the party at which he meets Juliet, he has a conversation with some unknown entity and discusses whether he should attend or not, the quote “I fear too early, for my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night’s revels, and expire the term / Of a despised life closed
The play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet ends with two star-crossed lovers, along with several others, dying. The question is, who is to blame for this tragic mess? There are multiple suspects who could have been the reason for the deaths of these young people. It could have been Romeo and Juliet themselves, Friar Laurence, the Capulets and the Montagues, Fate, or a number of people could share the blame. Each of the following has different reasons for being suspects.
Friar Lawrence gave Juliet the potion when she was only asking for help he could have done something else. For example Act 4 Scene 1 line 73 Friar Lawrence says “Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself” Friar Lawrence is saying do you have the strength to kill yourself. Friar Lawrence brought the sleep potion to Juliet’s head. Also Friar Lawrence should have warned Romeo himself instead of his messenger, or he could have waited at Juliet’s grave for Romeo to arrive.
However the problem is that their two families the Capulets, who are Juliet's family and the Montague, who are Romeo's family, have a long standing feud. Even though they have this forbidden love they still continue to see one another and end up getting married. They have a plan to stay together but this plan ends up turning out to be bad. In the end Romeo and Juliet end up tragically taking
To begin with near the end of the story the Friar tells the prince: “I married them;.../ Then I gave her (so tutored by my art)/A sleeping potion; which so took effect” (V.iii.244-255). Not only did he wed them in secret, he also fooled the entire town about Juliet’s death. He went behind the prince and behind the parents of Romeo and Juliet to do something that he could have refused to do. Also Friar Lawrence created a plan that lead to Romeo believing that Juliet was dead.
When kids die, people ask questions. Romeo and Juliet were from two different families that hated each other, however, Romeo and Juliet loved each other but such causes happened and interfered their lives and with this, they killed themselves. While the two families and Friar Lawrence are partially responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, Fate is mostly to blame. First of all, both the Montague and Capulet families can be blamed for their children’s deaths. “Fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life (Doc A).”
In act 4 scene 1, friar Lawrence explains his plan to Juliet to help her avoid marrying Paris. He tells her “ Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilling liquor drink thou off. ”.(Shakespeare. IV.i.98-99). Friar Lawrence's plan to help Juliet highlights his bad judgment and willingness to take risks.
Juliet’s parents had just forced her to marry Paris. Upset, Juliet runs to Friar Lawrence’s cell and threatened to kill herself unless Friar can come up with a plan so that Juliet can avoid the marriage. Friar Lawrence then tells Juliet a a solution to pacify her distress, “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off… The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade… thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours, and the awake as from a pleasant sleep…and he and I will watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua” (IV.i.92-117). Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potion to fake her death. The Friar instructs Juliet that she should drink this potion before bed without anyone knowing.
All these arguments substantiate that fate was the cause of Romeo and Juliet’s death. To begin, fate creates a gloomy atmosphere between Romeo and Juliet by having them born into rival families; the Capulets and the Montagues. The two
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.