Who Is To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death Essay
Who is to Blame of Romeo and Juliet’s Death
Shakespeare once wrote in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet “The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark!/Here’s to my love! [drinks] O true apothecary!/Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die” (V.III. 118-120). Directly after saying this, Romeo takes a poison and dies in hopes that he will spend the rest of eternity with the one he loves--Juliet. Both Romeo and Juliet commit suicide because Romeo thinks Juliet had died so he takes his life for her, then when Juliet wakes up she takes her own life because Romeo has died. How our two star-crossed lovers died was never in question, but who is most to blame for their deaths, is. Many say that there are other people in the play that are to blame for their deaths. Juliet faked her death using a plan given to her, that is why it is Friar Laurence’s fault that Romeo and Juliet both killed themselves, and he is the one to blame. Friar Laurence was the one who made the plan that failed and made both Romeo and Juliet kill themselves. It was the plan that he made up hastily for Juliet when she came to Friar Laurence’s cell. “Hold, daughter, I do spy a kind of hope/Which craves as desperate an execution” (IV.I. 68-69). This quote explains what Friar Laurence said to Juliet for his plan that did not work. The flaw in his plan was that he did not get …show more content…
Friar Laurence was the one who gave the plan to Juliet to get away from her family but it did not work. At the end of the book when Juliet was depressed about Romeo is death, he ran away instead of staying with her to make sure she would not do anything to hurt or kill herself. In the end love can conquer all including, forcing one to hate or love, to live or die, and to be happy and be sad. Romeo and Juliet show this by displaying the true meaning of
Shakespeare once wrote in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet “The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark!/Here’s to my love! [drinks] O true apothecary!/Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die” (V.III. 118-120). Directly after saying this, Romeo takes a poison and dies in hopes that he will spend the rest of eternity with the one he loves--Juliet. Both Romeo and Juliet commit suicide because Romeo thinks Juliet had died so he takes his life for her, then when Juliet wakes up she takes her own life because Romeo has died. How our two star-crossed lovers died was never in question, but who is most to blame for their deaths, is. Many say that there are other people in the play that are to blame for their deaths. Juliet faked her death using a plan given to her, that is why it is Friar Laurence’s fault that Romeo and Juliet both killed themselves, and he is the one to blame. Friar Laurence was the one who made the plan that failed and made both Romeo and Juliet kill themselves. It was the plan that he made up hastily for Juliet when she came to Friar Laurence’s cell. “Hold, daughter, I do spy a kind of hope/Which craves as desperate an execution” (IV.I. 68-69). This quote explains what Friar Laurence said to Juliet for his plan that did not work. The flaw in his plan was that he did not get …show more content…
Friar Laurence was the one who gave the plan to Juliet to get away from her family but it did not work. At the end of the book when Juliet was depressed about Romeo is death, he ran away instead of staying with her to make sure she would not do anything to hurt or kill herself. In the end love can conquer all including, forcing one to hate or love, to live or die, and to be happy and be sad. Romeo and Juliet show this by displaying the true meaning of