Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are two star crossed lovers whose family rivalry keeps them apart and leads to their death because they are prohibited from being married. These lovers meet at a ball where they begin to realize their love for one another and get married overtime. Once they are married, Juliet's parents tell her she must marry Paris. Juliet refuses, but her father threatens her to do so. She runs to Friar Lawrence, whose plan fails all because Romeo did not…
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your friend asked you to marry them with a person they just met. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Friar Lawrence is most to blame for Romeo and Juliet's death. Friar Lawrence secretly married Romeo and Juliet. Even though Friar Lawrence knew they wouldn't be able to tell anyone because a Montague and a Capulet cannot be married, but he still married them anyway. Although he had doubts he still married them because Romeo asked him too and he was just being a friend. There were only four…
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play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragedy about two “star crossed lovers”. At the end of the play the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet die. With many people to blame who is the main person to blame for Romeo and Juliet's deaths? Friar Lawrence is most to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. The secret wedding of Romeo and Juliet could not happen without Friar Lawrence. Friar Lawrence makes a bad decision to marry Romeo and Juliet even though he knows it will cause problems…
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resulted in the death of the teens. The key secondary character who is responsible for the death of the two teens is Friar Lawrence. Friar Lawrence is responsible for Romeo and Juliet's deaths due to his idiotic plan. He is to blame for their deaths because he agreed to marry them just because he hopes it ends their family feud. A quote to support this is “In one respect i’ll thy assistant be/For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your households rancor to pure love”(2.3.46). The friar marrying Romeo…
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Who do you think was truly to blame for Romeo and Juliet's death? The story does make it seem like no one is mainly at fault and that it could be multiple people. Romeo and Juliet is a story of 2 lovers that are both in separate families that are both in war with each other. This is what causes them to have to secretly be together and is a major cause of the mishap in the end. So who do you think is to blame for the deaths of the 2 star-crossed lovers? Well, looking at the story and seeing who married…
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In the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare creates a fictional world in which two young people fall into a forbidden love and die because of that love. The star-crossed lovers had to overcome obstacles that stood in their way but ultimately were not able to avoid their destinies. What makes this romance such a tragedy are the decisions of the characters in the play, some good and some bad. A series of disastrous events, and even people such as Capulet, Friar Lawrence, and the Capulet-Montague…
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Who’s to Blame? Who’s to blame of the tragedy of Romeo's and Juliet's death? In the story, “Romeo and Juliet”, there were many things that caused Romeo and Juliet to death. Juliet’s parents are one to blame, but there were a few other things that played a part in their deaths, such as fate and Friar Lawrence, and finally themselves. Throughout the story Juliet's parents kept pressuring her to marry Paris. In the story it says, “Well, think of marriage now… Speak briefly, can you like of…
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Forever Romeo and Juliet’s fate could be blamed on many unexpected people. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare. The main characters in this play were Romeo, Juliet, Friar Lawrence, Lord and Lady Capulet, Lord and Lady Montague, Tybalt, and the nurse. In this play, two feuding families have a son and a daughter. They are taught to hate each other and they eventually meet each other and almost instantly fall in love with each other. Obviously that would cause problems…
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Romeo and Juliet Case Brief I was called to this case to investigate the murder of two teenagers that took place on April 10th 1524. The victims are 13-year-old Juliet Capulet and 16-year-old Romeo Montague. Upon arrival, he came across deceased Count Paris just outside of the tomb with severe fighting wounds. Inside, I found poisoned Romeo laying beside Juliet, heavily impaled, alongside the poison bottle and dagger. With the information collected, I have concluded that Friar Lawrence is the cause…
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Romeo and Juliet, a classic play written by William Shakespeare, is considered both a romance and tragedy combined. This famous love story between “two star-crossed lovers” led to the death of both Romeo and Juliet. There were many factors that led to the death of Romeo and Juliet and amongst these were fate, Friar Lawrence and Romeo and Juliet themselves. Fate plays an important role in both Romeo and Juliet’s death. Throughout the play, fate seems to force both Romeo and Juliet together and apart…
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