”Where the infectious pestilence did reign, seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth,” states Friar John (act 5 scene 2 Line 11.) This is when Friar John returned to Friar Lawrence and told him that he could not deliver the plans for Juliet to Romeo because he could not get through the gates. This portrays dramatic irony because Romeo was making irrational decisions based on an assumption we knew to be incorrect. In act 4, the literary device of suspense was used when Romeo is about to drink the poison to kill himself and Juliet can wake up any second. “Here’s to my love!
The first person to die is Mercutio, who is killed in a fight with Tybalt (Act III Scene I). This is a heartbreaking loss for Romeo, who then proceeds to fight and kill Tybalt as revenge. This leads to the banishment of Romeo, another tragic incident. After Romeo is banished, Juliet and the Friar devise a plan to ensure that Juliet will not be forced to marry Paris (Act IV Scene I), the suitor who Juliet’s parents want her to marry. To take the plan into action, Juliet drinks a potion that makes her appear dead (Act IV Scene III).
One of the most tragic events in the whole play is the death of both Romeo and Juliet this happens because of Romeo’s mistakes. Romeo is informed that his wife, the love of his life has died so on impulse he decides to end his life to be with her, this is Romeo 's first mistake. After conflict with Paris, Romeo drinks the poison he has acquired, thus killing himself, if he had waited or even grieved her death then the play would 've ended differently. Juliet not really being dead awakes to find her husband the love of her life dead next to
If Romeo was more patient he would have realized the truth, and he wouldn't have died. Due to Romeos impatience we see that his death was earlier than expected. We see some strong evidence in the following examples however, I feel that anger, and chance/fate played a more important role of the tragic
If it weren’t for his arrogance and selfishness Mercutio and Tybalt wouldn’t have gotten in a fight, causing Romeo’s banishment. If Mercutio wouldn’t have gotten involved in this sensitive situation He, Romeo, Juliet, Paris, Lady Montague and Tybalt wouldn’t have died. Romeo was heartbroken by a girl named Rosaline and if it weren’t for Mercutio they probably would have ended up together. Mercutio being one of Romeo’s best friends was able to convince Romeo that Rosaline wasn’t worth the pain and sorrow that he was going through. In
Lastly, Tybalt is the most to blame for the events that occur in Romeo and Juliet because of the the first events he caused leading to the suicides of Romeo and Juliet. The confirmation that Tybalt is the cause of the terrible events in Romeo and Juliet is shown in the play “Romeo and Juliet” when Romeo says, “Is it even so? then I defy you, stars! Thou know ' st my lodging: get me ink and paper, and hire post-horses; I will hence tonight.”
The scene of Mercutio and Tybalt’s death is the main turning point in the play. This scene in Act 3 of the play starts off the spiral of people dying (Shakespeare III-V). The death of Mercutio is the first death in play and right after Mercutio dies Tybalt follows, along with the death of Paris, Romeo, Juliet, and Lady Montague. As Romeo is fighting Tybalt he yells, “That late thou gavest me, for Mercutio’s soul /Is
When Romeo first heard news of Juliet’s “death” he was upset with the world for taking his true love away from him too soon “Then I defy you, stars” (V.i.24). In those words, Romeo is screaming at the world for taking his will to live, as shortly after he went to get fatal poisoning so he could join his fair Juliet. Though the tragedy of their love doesn’t stop there as the expiry ending has just began with that phrase “the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh” (V.iii.120-121). These are Romeos last word as he bestows a kiss onto Juliet’s lips before the poison takes him. With Romeo’s death occurring minutes before Juliet’s awakening she was torn when she awoke to find him “O happy dagger, this is thy sheath, there rust and let me die.”
Sadly, things turn out for the worse as the two characters, due to misunderstandings and ill-timed events end up killing themselves. For example, in the last act just after Romeo kills Paris, and then himself, Juliet wakes only to see her beloved’s corpse as Friar Lawrence rushes over to her. Friar Lawrence is stating that a higher power, in this case, fate has ruined their plan. We know that Friar Lawrence is talking about fate when he says that they cannot contradict this power.
Friar then gets startled by a watchman in the background and flees the scene leaving Juliet alone with Romeo’s lifeless body in her arms. Juliet then realizes that the man she loves is dead and the only solution is to take her on life. Juliet takes Romeo knife and stabs herself with it after she says her body will be the knives sheath. This is fate because death was destined upon both Romeo and Juliet.
The Killer Friar A Friar is a man of God. A man of whom is supposed to help God’s loving children and followers and a man whom is supposed to know what is best when it comes to being asked for advice. Friar Laurence in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is anything but what a Friar is supposed to be and ends up causing the deaths of four of six characters within the play. Friar Laurence did not physically go up and murder these characters but indirectly caused these deaths through leaving a suicidal alone and relying solely on the Church and himself rather than outside forces.
In the play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the two teenage lovers fell for each other, however, Romeo’s flaw led to their death. Romeo’s flaw was his impulsiveness and urge to jump to conclusions. He acted upon himself to commit suicide rather than letting fate take its path to eventually lead them to be future lovers. Furthermore, Romeo had a big impact on their deaths because of his way of believing he would be able to fix the problem rather than putting it in fates hands. He acts on emotion instead of reason.
BREAKING NEWS: Security camera footage of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet have been recovered. The deaths have been ruled out a suicide and a tragedy. Romeo who was a just fifteen at the time had fled from the scene of a police shooting and run inside of the Capulet Church where his star-cross lover Juliet was waiting. Friar Lawrence had planned to fake Juliet’s death so that the couple could be married without the worry of the two families disputing.
Have you ever been so in love with someone that you would fake your death just to be with them? In Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, the character of Romeo is responsible for his and his newlywed wife Juliet's death, which shows that suicide is not always the answer There are many reasons that romeo is to blame for his own and the life of his newly wed wife Some reasons that Romeo is to blame is romeo went to the capulate ball On the night when Romeo and Juliet met Romeo snuck into the capulate ball.
Why is someone’s identity important? Perhaps because who someone is can help determine his or her destiny. People with different characteristics, actions, and backgrounds often have different futures. Consider Romeo Montague, for instance. Romeo is one of the protagonists in the well-known tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.