Friar Laurence's Mistakes Responsible For The Death Of Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet, widely known as star crossed lovers, took their own lives and evidently restored peace between the once feuding families of the Montagues and Capulets. Throughout the play written by William Shakespeare, there are many opposing characters and forces acting against Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. Their love story ended in their deaths, and it was Friar Laurence’s mistakes that led them to do so. The events that led to their death was when the Friar gave a sleeping potion to Juliet, entrusted someone else with a very important letter, and ran and hid during the tomb scene. Thus unintentionally, Friar Laurence was the one responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet. Mistakes made by Friar Laurence shows that he is the one …show more content…

The solution to Juliet’s problem, after she threatened to kill herself if the Friar did not have a solution, was to drink a potion that would make her look like she is dead. If Friar Laurence had not given the potion to Juliet, and instead gave her another plan such as possibly helping her escape Verona, Romeo and Juliet would have still been alive. Without the potion, Romeo would not hear that Juliet “died” and would not have rushed back and act carelessly. Also, the problem with this was that he trusted a child to fake her own death by herself without anyone else knowing while he thought of a plan to get Romeo back in order to dig her up after she was buried. If friar had not told juliet to keep her fake death a secret and told the nurse or someone, they could have …show more content…

that cause their own deaths, however Friar Laurence is evidently the person to be responsible for the death because the whole faking death situation was the Friar's idea, led the two lovers to the tomb scene. Unbelievably, when friar and Juliet were at the tomb scene before the prince came, he ran away to try to hide from getting into trouble. Juliet tells the friar to “Go, get thee hence, for i will not away.-” And he does, leaving Juliet to herself. If he had not ran away he could have saved Juliet from stabbing

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