Famous words from a true leader, “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend” -Martin Luther King Jr. He says love is a force that can bring people together. Romeo and Juliet are two star crossed lovers who despite their parents feud, fall in love and have to hide their marriage from everyone. Love is one of the most important concepts in Romeo and Juliet, love is having a deep romantic attachment to someone. Another important concept in Romeo and Juliet is responsibility. Responsibility has to do with having to deal with something or having control over someone or something. Romeo and Juliet’s parents and Friar Lawrence are at fault for Romeo + Juliet’s deaths.
At fault for Romeo and Juliet's death is Friar Lawrence.
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Because of their parents feud they are not supposed to be together. In the beginning of the play it is being said that the feud has been going on for a long time “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean...and the continuance of their parents rage, which, but their children's end, naught could remove.” (shakespeare's prologue). Because of their parents feud, they are not supposed to be together anyway. Romeo and Juliet don’t care about the feud and end up falling in love and get married, because of the feud they both end up taking their own lives. Another reason why Romeo and Juliet’s parents are at fault is because they tried forcing Juliet to marry someone else -Prince Paris- after she was already married to Romeo. Juliet’s mom is telling Juliet that Juliet’s father has done something that will end her sadness over the death of her cousin Tybalt “Well, well, thou hast careful father, child. One who, to put thee from thy heaviness, hath sorted out a sudden day of joy...marry, my child, early next Thursday morn, the gallant, young, and noble gentleman, the county Paris, at the Saint Peter’s Church, shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.” (shakespeare 3.5 lines 107-115). Juliet’s parents (the Capulets) are forcing Juliet to marry Prince Paris within a few days. They didn’t even ask Juliet for her opinion or hear what she has to say, they just told …show more content…
This is not true because Romeo and Juliet are not old enough to blame for this mistake. Someone should have helped them be together and not go to extreme and not be against them because that only brought them closer together. Juliet is approximately 13 years old and Romeo is approximately 16-17 years old. Both not enough to know what is right and what is wrong. Thus Romeo and Juliet cannot be at fault for their own deaths. This proves why my opponents are wrong saying that it is Romeo and Juliet’s
Romeo is to blame for Juliet’s and his own death, because when he was banned from Verona, he could have found someone else in Mantua.
In the play, Romeo and Juliet, there are several significant details that help the reader choose who take the blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet. First, the character Friar Laurence should have never married them in the first place. Another important detail is that Friar Laurence it might have ended the feud between the two families they always fighting with each other. The third detail important to the play is that he should have never given Juliet the sleeping drug to make her fake her own death. Finally, the Shakespeare that tells the reader that Romeo has killed himself to be with his love in the afterlife because he couldn’t be with her while she was living. These details are significant because it shows how friar Laurence is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet just days after the weeding.
In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Friar Laurence is the most to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death. Even though Friar Laurence just wanted Romeo to be happy, he should have either not have let Romeo and Juliet get married or gotten them out of Verona after he married them. Arguably, Romeo is at fault because he forced the friar to marry them, but Friar Laurence was given two chances to refuse to marry them and in the end he did not say no which risks Romeo and Juliet’s lives. Friar Laurence had good intentions, but he did things more with impulsivity and was thinking more with his heart than he was with his brain. Another reason the friar married them is because he wanted to two families’ feud to end. When Romeo killed Tybalt
Who is to Blame for the death? Who is to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet? “ Romeo and Juliet “ Is written by Shakespeare and has been transformed into plays, movies, and soliloquies. The main characters in the acts are Romeo, Juliet, and The Capulets.
Blame is easy to find in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, but the real question is who should be blamed the most for the deaths? I think that the most to blame is probably Friar John. The reason I think this is because if only he could have carried out what he was picked to do which was delivering the message to Romeo that Juliet was not really dead then three people would not have died. I had three people in mind that I could have chosen. One of which would be Balthasar because he saw Juliet in the Capulet’s tomb pretending to be dead and ran straight to Romeo which I do understand because he did not know that Juliet was faking, but if he would have slowed down and just walked up to her he could have seen her chest moving which would have
In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, The ‘star-crossed lovers’ take their own lives in the name of love. Was it their own faults that they killed themselves or someone else's? There are three main characters to blame for their deaths; Fate, Lord Capulet and Friar Lawrence. Starting out with Fate, with the most evidence in the death of Romeo and Juliet.
It is Romeo and Juliet's fault that they died. Romeo and Juliet fell in love after at least an hour of seeing each other, and that is way too fast to be falling in love with someone. Romeo kisses Juliet and that is where he went wrong. He should have never done that because that is what starts most of the problems. There are many reasons to why most people would think that it was Romeo and Juliet's fault for their own deaths.
In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy Romeo and Juliet a thirteen-year-old girl, daughter of the Capulets, and Romeo’s wife killed herself because of the events happening around her. Juliet was a shy girl who didn’t think about marriage or love until she met Romeo which later led to her death. Juliet’s death was caused by four main people Tybalt, Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence, and Peter.
Wait, WHAT! Do you also think there is more to Romeo and Juliet than we all really know and who is to really blame for their deaths?! In Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare there is a huge impact and problem that occurs between two enemies that fall in love, but don't make it all the way through life and really enjoy it together. Friar Laurence, their parents, and Romeo and Juliet are to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because things they said and did really impacted and changed them. Romeo and Juliet’s parents weren’t as involved as they should of been or could have been and didn't really know or care about their kids lives.
Romeo is to blame How really is it possible for two lovers to kill themselves when they have only known each other for around 3 days. The situation here is very odd ending with multiple deaths and all because of one character .In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare there are two lovers whos families are involved in a problematic feud. These are enemies who love each other that are doomed from the start and in the end they both tragically die by taking their own lives. Due to all the poor decisions made by Romeo.
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, one of the most popular plays, Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers and the unhappy fate that befell them as a result of a long and bitter feud amongst the two households, the Capulets and the Montagues. The two star crossed lovers had their love for each other shattered when Romeo was exiled from Verona and was sentenced to death if he ever returned. Juliet was so distraught by this she wanted to end this madness between families and so she asked Friar Lawrence to fix this problem and so he invented a remedy to finish it but the remedy ended up killing the two lovers. Although it may seem that the Friar and other outside influences were to blame for the death of
First, both Romeo and Juliet can be responsible of their own deaths if you think about it. Both of them were young and looking for someone who could care for them and give them attention. They were unwise of their actions and hadn’t really thought things out when they wanted to marry
Though William Shakespeare wrote many worldrenound stories, poems, and sonnets, he was not a famous writer during his lifetime. Today his work is known worldwide and one of his most famous tragedies is ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Known for its star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, whose fates were sealed by an old feud between Montagues and Capulets. Perhaps from the Capulets, the young Juliet could be to blame for this horrific tragedy.
The parents of Romeo and Juliet definitely had the most responsibility for the death of Romeo and Juliet in the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare because of the feud of the two families, the Capulets and the Montagues. In the beginning of the play, the Prince, a character in the play that stands as the ruler of Verona, stated that the Capulets and the Montagues have taken the quiet streets of Verona, the setting of the scene, and made them into a fighting arena. Both the Capulets and the Montagues have taken responsibility for three street fights. It foreshadows the conflict that would happen between Romeo and Juliet as both of their families have a feud (I.1.82-90). To prove the foreshadowing, Romeo had to
In Romeo and Juliet Romeo murdered three out of the six people that died in the book. Romeo killed half of the people and caused the other half to die from killing himself and other people. Romeo is the most to blame for all of the deaths in the book Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.