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Romeo And Juliet Blame
People often wonder how two people that were in love had so tragic deaths. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet this exactly happens. The characters in Romeo and Juliet play a vital role in the ending of the story.
Initially, the feuding households, Montague and Capulet, were the reason that Romeo and Juliet could not be together and the reason why they both died in the end. Before the play begins, it tells us that the Montague and Capulet homes are against each other. In the beginning of Romeo and Juliet fell in love but from the start, they knew their love was forbidden because Romeo was a Montague and Juliet was a Capulet. They were from two different households so that meant they were supposed to be enemies, not in love. If the households
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His plan was to first tell Juliet what would happen and then tell Romeo the plan through a letter. The letter never arrived because the messenger was late to deliver it because he had to take care of a sick child. Benvolio visited Romeo before the messenger got there so he told Romeo that Juliet was dead. So when the messenger finally got to where Romeo lived, he wasn't there. In this case, Benvolio is to blame because if he wasn't so nosy, and worrying about Juliet, Romeo would've received the letter and would've known about the plan. In Act four, Scene one, Friar Lawrence states “If you have the nerve, I have the remedy…Tomorrow night make sure you sleep alone. Don’t let the nurse sleep with you in your room. When you’re in bed, take this small bottle and swallow this distilled liquid.” Friar Lawrence gave Juliet a liquid to take so that she would appear dead and then they would take her to the burial site. Then Romeo would meet her and they would be together forever but that didn’t happen because of Friar …show more content…
Instead, Friar John chose to take care of a sick child so he didn’t do his job properly. Friar John should have given the important letter to Romeo first, and then went back to take care of the sick child. Since the letter was important, he should have made that his top priority and made that his mission to get the letter to Romeo. Because Romeo did not get the letter, he believed that Juliet was dead and went to go kill himself to live with her in death because Balthazar told him she was dead. In Act five, Scene one, there is a conversation between Friar John and Friar Lawrence that shows the letter was not received by Romeo. “I went looking for a Fellow-Franciscan to go with me. He was visiting the sick. After I found him, the health officers, suspecting we were in a house infected by the plague, boarded up the doors, and wouldn’t let us out. So I couldn’t go to Mantua… Who took the letter to Romeo, then? ... I couldn’t send it-here it is back again-nor get a messenger to deliver it to you. They were so afraid of infection.” This part of the play shows that Romeo did not receive the letter. Because he did not receive the plan, he killed

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