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Romeo And Juliet Blame Essay

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Joel Grumme Due 10/31/17 Doc Harris Pd.8 English (H) Romeo and Juliet Blame essay Introduction Secrets and power in the hand of children can have consequences. This is shown in Romeo and Juliet’s actions and their personal tendencies. Their terrible plans led to their demise. The secrets that they kept tore their own family apart. Only their fateful deaths reunited the two families in grief. 1st Blame Friar Laurence has some blame in this tragedy. His knowledge should have kept both Romeo and Juliet grounded with rational decisions.” These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die like fire and powder” (Act 2 scene 6 Lines 9-10) The desire to end the conflict between the two families fueled his decisions. “I am the greatest, able to do least, yet most suspected, as the time and place Doth make against me, of this direful murder. And here I stand, both to impeach and purge, Myself condemned and myself excused.” (Act 5 scene 3, Lines 238-242) Also sometimes he made bad decisions and ideas that made the situation spiral downward. “If, rather than to marry Count Paris, thou hast the strength of will to slay thy self, then is it a likely thou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame, that copest with death himself to’scape from it. And if thou darest, I’ll give …show more content…

She is very rebellious and naïve and caused her own death.” Go, thee hence, for I will not away” (Act 5 scene 3, line 172) She is also very impulsive and a change of action could have changed everything. "Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust and let me die" Act 5 scene 3(Lines,84-83) She fell in love too quickly and found that they were both enemies. "My only love sprung from my only hate! To early seen unknown and known to late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me That I must love a loathed enemy!" Act 1 scene 5 (Lines 140-139) However, her lover has most to blame for this

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