Is The Friar To Blame For The Death Of Romeo And Juliet

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Blame Paper In The Tragedy Romeo and Juliet there are many people you could blame for the death of the two star crossed lovers. Some people might think it is even the lovers fault for their own deaths. I blame the Friar for the lovers deaths because he gave Juliet the potion which caused the lovers deaths. Even though Romeo and Juliet ran into the marriage not thinking they could have ran off together and avoided the problems that would go along with it. The Friar is the person to blame for all the serious trouble that went down between the lovers. The only thing that Romeo and Juliet did to cause issues was fall in love. The Friar caused more issues by marrying the lovers when their families were enemies. “In one respect I’ll assistant …show more content…

411) After the lovers were married by the Friar they could not tell Juliet’s family because the Capulets have a feud with the Montague’s. The Friar just wanted the lovers to be happy, but he also knew marrying them was not the right thing to do. Issues could have been avoided if the Friar wouldn’t have married the lovers to cause more drama between the families. After the Friar married the lovers and they were happy Romeo and Tybalt go into a fight that ended in Romeo being banished from Vienna. Juliet soon found out about the fight between Romeo and Tybalt from the Nurse, and she thought Romeo was dead. When Juliet found out Romeo was not dead, but banished. Everyone thought Juliet was sad about Tybalt and thought she wanted another man in her life, because they did not …show more content…

He knew he was going to cause many issues between the two families and lovers, but he still decided to do it. Another story has a very similar plot, so similar it is called the “modern day Romeo and Juliet.” This story is called West Side Story. In this story two rival street gangs from New York fight for the turf on the upper West side. This relates to Romeo and Juliet because rival gang members fall in love. They fall in love at a dance, and then continue to meet in secrete. This leads to the gangs fighting in the end just like they did in Romeo and

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