Friar Lawrence Is To Blame In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” This is an ironic quote from William Shakespeare, who wrote the play, Romeo and Juliet. The main characters in the play, Romeo and Juliet, believe that their lives are all up to destiny, and because of this, they end up killing themselves because of miscommunication. For this, I blame Peter, Juliet, and most of all Romeo for their deaths. One reason why Peter is to blame is he invited Romeo to the party at the Capulet’s mansion for helping him read the list of invitees at the beginning of the play. If he hadn’t invited Romeo, he never would have met Juliet and the story never would have happened. Although it was a nice gesture, Peter, a Capulet, had no right inviting Romeo,

The last plan he had was to give Juliet a non-lethal drug that will make her seem dead for the next forty-two hours, have her buried in the family crypt, and found by Romeo. Romeo, who at the time had been banished from the city and sent to a near-by city, was waiting for news that he had been pardoned, which never happens. Instead, he gets news that Juliet has died, which of course isn’t true, but he goes ballistic over it. He buys poison, and heads back to the city to see if it’s true for himself, goes into the Capulet crypt, sees Juliet’s “dead” body which has been “dead” for almost two days, which still has color in it, and kills himself. Five seconds later, Friar Lawrence shows up because the person who was supposed to send the message to Romeo that Juliet hadn’t actually died got held up, so Romeo never got the message. Then five seconds later, Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo dead on the floor, talks to the Friar for a while, then kills herself. Now, this all wouldn’t have happened if Juliet hadn’t listened to the Friar and just ran away with