Obviously, William Shakespeare uses dramatic irony such as Romeo and Juliet feuding families, Juliet’s arranged marriage to Paris, and Juliet’s death to keeps reader on edge and wanting to read more. Finding out that Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet shows there is going to be trouble throughout the play. When Juliet is crying over Romeo's banishment, her father tells her to marry Paris to make her happy again. Since Romeo has been banished Juliet fakes her death so she can run away with Romeo. All these examples of dramatic irony heightens the tragedy, and keeps the reader on
Everyone believes that Juliet is dead and when Romeo finds her asleep in the tomb, he drinks poison to save himself from his misery. If Friar would have planed to tell Romeo instead of Friar John, his plan may have been successful. When Romeo goes to the Capulet’s tomb and sees Juliet “dead” he drinks a poision and immediately dies. Shortly after, Juliet awakes from her slumber and also kills
Who’s is to blame for the various deaths in the play of “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare? Friar Lawrence is to blame. Romeo and Juliet, teenage lovers, fell in love but their families hated each other. They got married in secret by Friar Lawrence. When Juliet didn’t want to married Paris, Friar Lawrence gave her poison to make her fate her death.
Juliet is heartbroken and ends up planning to fake her death. If Mercutio and Tybalt hadn’t picked a fight, Juliet would not have had to fake her death.(5.1.17-23) Bathalsar receives incorrect information regarding Juliet’s “death”. Since Romeo had been exiled due to Mercutio and Tybalt’s battle to the death, he wasn’t able to obtain the real information regarding Juliet’s death, fast
Even though the audience doesn’t get to participate in the scene firsthand, we hear Ophelia explain to her father Polonius that Hamlet might be “mad for thy love (85). This is a perfect example of Hamlet rehearsing his insanity when he comes into her room “as if he had been loosèd out of hell/ to speak of horrors—he comes before me (83-84). You brought up an interesting question about 3.4 which was why Queen Gertrude can’t see the ghost of her dead husband, Hamlet Sr. My theory to this question is that Hamlet has not yet come to terms with his fathers’ death but Gertrude has. By Hamlet being able to see his dead father, it’s a sign that he is still mourning for him and that he can’t let go
That plan is stopped when Friar John goes to look for another Friar to accompany him to his voyage to Mantua. When he finds one the health officials quarantine him in a house that was hit with the plague. He says that they, “Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth. So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed” (5.2 11-12).
Behold the Life of a Tragedy Who is to blame for the disastrous deaths of Romeo and Juliet, people significant to the history of literature? Maybe it is the parents of the two. Maybe it is the children themselves, or maybe it is neither. In this play Written by Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, two lovers take their lives in a twisted way all because of the absurdity from the feud of the Montagues and the Capulets. This main characters in this play are Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Lady Capulet, Lord Capulet and Mercutio.
This story starts when Romeo and Juliet’s parents both hated each other. Their families were enemies. Many critics said that the authority figures, Romeo and Juliet and fate are to blame for the tragedy. One of the causes that lead to Romeo and Juliet’s death was the Authority figure.
“Oh, my heart is breaking. Oh, my bankrupt heart is breaking.” (pg 159) In the novel Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare the couple goes through many obstacles that test their love. Their families have an ongoing feud that makes their relationship stay a secret.
When a tragedy occurs, the question often arises who is responsible. In Romeo and Juliet which was written by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet fall in love in spite of the ongoing feud between their families. Through the trials and tribulations they sustain but because of small simple mistakes they both commit suicide and henceforth is a tragedy to be remembered throughout the ages. First of all,the two main people who are responsible for the tragic ending is Romeo and Juliet themselves. The first reason is when Romeo killed Tybalt.
Later in the tragedy, Romeo sees Juliet dead in the mausoleum, and decides to express his love for her, then drink the poison. Once Juliet awakes from her deep sleep and sees Romeo dead, she takes her own life with a dagger. Both Juliet and Romeo’s tragic downfall could have been avoided if Romeo thought about the consequences before he murdered Tybalt. Romeo’s rash behaviors in Romeo and Juliet resulted in many negative consequences, and he consistently acted impetuously that impacted others in an unnecessary way. The actions he committed to were ideally the cause of the death for three major characters .
“These violent delights have violent ends.” (II, vi, 9). However, he does not take his own words into good use as the friar, unexpectedly, makes a plan to fake Juliet’s death to prevent her from marrying Paris. Friar Lawrence gives the potion to Juliet without a second thought. Yet, Juliet thinks of possible weakness in the friar’s plan and potion.
Death is a result. Whether it is from a fault of a person, a disease or an action, it is always a result of something. At the end of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet commit suicide and their are two people at fault for this. Juliet and her father Lord Capulet are to blame for the death of the two lovers because of the irrational decisions made by Lord Capulet and his daughter 's marriage, Juliet’s quick decision to use a fake poison that could have many different outcomes, and how Juliet relied too heavily on other people. Some ay say that their are more people who helped to lead up to the After the death of Tybalt, Juliet was changing her mind frequently about things including her marriage.
Multiple sources also confirmed that Romeo was in hysterics by the time he arrived at the tomb. In suspense, Balthazar reveals that he has a letter that Romeo gave to him for his father, Lord Montague. The letter shows that Romeo had bought poison from the Mantua Apothecary. Friar Lawrence said that Juliet’s sleeping potion would have worn off right as Romeo drank the poison, which is why Juliet would be dead too.
Faber live in fear of getting his house burnt down and the people that read books become so guilty, they govern themselves. Faber did this to himself too, “That was all there was to it, really. An hour of monologue, a poem, a comment, and then without even acknowledging the fact that Montag was a fireman, Faber with a certain trembling, wrote his address on a slip of paper. ’ For your file,’ he said, ‘in case you decide to be angry with me. ’"(Bradbury, page 71).