Who Is Responsible For the Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet?

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Who Is Responsible For the Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet?

William Shakespeare the famous playwright and poet, wrote in the late 1500’s, one of the most respected tragedies of all time “Romeo and Juliet”.

The play is about “two star crossed lovers” who are from rival families and are doomed to die in a fate sealed by the cold shed blood of friends and family. Romeo and Juliet first meet at a party and afterwards arrange to get married the following day. Soon after the wedding there is a big fight between the two houses and in the confusion Juliet’s cousin is slaughtered and Romeo is banished. Juliet, whilst in hysterics about Romeo’s banishment, seeks the help of the able and slightly senile Friar Lawrence. The friar, being a man of the church, agrees to help Juliet and arranges for her to sneak away after she has drunk a potion which will make her seem dead to the world for 42 hours. The plan goes according to plan until Romeo fails to receive word from Friar Lawrence about the plan. Romeo hears of Juliet’s death and races back to Verona whilst stopping on the way for some poison. Romeo arrives at Juliet’s grave and drinks the potion, he dies fairly quickly and as he is doing so Juliet wakes from her death sees Romeo dead and stabs herself with his dagger. Such is story of these to lovers destined to die.

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This essay will look at each character involved in the play and their lives to determine who is responsible for these two casualties of a war between families that has been going on for generation after generation. Could they have never had a chance as they were destined two die from the moment that they were born because it was written in the skies? This essay is here to answer that question. So join me Chris Leydon on an epic journey of betrayal, deceit and lies as we dive deep into the lives of Romeo and Juliet!

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