Who is responsible of the death of Romeo and Juliet.

WHO IS RESONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF ROMEO AND JUIELIET

In this piece of coursework I’m going to find out who is responsible of the death of Romeo and Juliet. I am going to focus mainly on Tybalt, Friar Lawrence, benvilio, the nurse, Romeo and Juliet themselves. I’m going to look in very deeply into the role of these people and come down to a conclusion of who is the largely responsible for the death, I agreed that every one in the play had at least something to do with the death of Romeo and Juliet. Mercuito getting killed by tybalt, which lead Romeo to murder tybalt, which escorted Romeo getting banished from Verona, which lead him to get false information about Juliet and then decide to kill himself. Lady Capulet which demanded that Romeo is banished, then you have The Prince who agrees and quoted that if Romeo comes into Verona he should be killed. I’m now going to now start on my essay. I will begin with friar Lawrence talking about how he put to much pressure on Romeo and Juliet to marry. getting

The main reason why Friar Lawrence is in the frame for the responsible of death of Romeo and Juliet is because he was the person who thought of marring Romeo and Juliet. He thought it would bring both families together, and stop the feud. Friar Lawrence new the consequences if they got caught it would make the grudge even larger, and friar could serve a death sentence. His plan wasn’t planned enough it didn’t not go to plan at all. The plan was to give Juliet the sleeping potion Lawrence. So every one things she is dead so she doesn’t have to marry , so then after she could marry Romeo then the families will stop there feud and be friends. The thing was that friar john told Romeo that Juliet is dead. Romeo panicking wanted to go back to Verona. Friar Lawrence sent a letter in the post telling Romeo what was the plan. Romeo didn’t receive it. So he got poison of the Apothecary and would kill himself if he sees Juliet dead in Verona. I believe that friar does have a gigantic part in the responsibility of the death of Romeo and Juliet

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The reason why Benvilio is in the frame for the responsibility of death of Romeo and Juliet was because he was the person who pressured Romeo to attend the caplets party. Benvilio new that it wouldn’t be a good idea but he still went on with it, and that was the place where Romeo met Juliet. Another reason was when Romeo murdered tybalt benvilio was the person to tell the prince that Romeo had killed Tybalt. Peter the Capulet servant told benvoilio and romeo about the party. Romeo didn’t want to go but benvilio instisted that he shall go. Benvilio thought that Romeo needs to explore other beauties like benvilio quoted on (act 1 scene 1) “Be ruled by me, forget to think of her, examine other beauties” benvilio new that it will be a risk going so they decided to wear mask so the Capulets wont no there Montague’s. . tybalt spotted Romeo and cause a huge argument. If it wasn’t for benvilio forcing Romeo to go to the part then Romeo wouldn’t of seen Juliet and then wouldn’t be noticed by tybalt which then was going to who then when on to kill mercuitio who was defending Romeo. The Romeo would have no reason to kill tybalt, so he wouldn’t be banished to Mantua. Which then lead on to the death of Romeo and Juliet? It will be very cruel on benvilio if u blame him for the death of Romeo and Juliet. He just thought going to the Capulet party will be a laugh. He couldn’t predict those harsh futures which lead to death of Romeo and Juliet

There is not a lot of facts which say tybalt was guilty for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet but he did play a small roll in killing Mercutio. This directed Romeo to kill tybalt in his fury of Mercutio death. But believe that Romeo should not be at the Capulets party, so no reason for tybalt to seek revenge on the Montague’s. But if tybalt just forgive Romeo and forgot about the event then the deaths of 4 people could have been resisted, those people Romeo, Juliet, tybalt and Mercutio.

The reason why the nurse is in the frame for the death of Romeo and Juliet is because she got involved into the plan too much. She knew about the marriage and the feelings between the pair. She should of told someone so it wouldn’t of went this far. She knew from the start that they were in love. The nurse knew the longest out of all the individuals. She was the only person in the Capulet’s to witness Romeo constantly attending Juliet’s bedroom. All she had to do is tell someone to put a instant stop to the couple. I think if they stopped on the first day then they would eventually give up and they would have prevented the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Another reason why the nurse could be blamed for the deaths of the couple Romeo and Juliet is when she went to go find Romeo to see if he planned to marry Juliet. She was excited like friar. She went of the Capulet’s borders to find Romeo. The nurse was like friar not thinking about the bad things that could happen. Only the good .it will be quite harsh if u blame the deaths completely on the nurse. She shouldn’t have got involved and went behind the Capulet’s back, but she was only trying to make every one happy.

Juliet’s father Capulet also had something to do with the deaths of his daughter and Romeo as well. He was the one to let the Montague inside the feast where Romeo feel in love with Juliet. Also he forced Juliet to marry Paris. If he didn’t force her to marry Paris she wouldn’t of faked her death then Romeo wouldn’t have thought she was dead and Romeo wouldn’t of killed himself. Also him as the man of the house he could have been grown up enough to tell the Montague‘s to stop the feud but he didn’t. So the feud carried on. He had to wait for 4 people to die then they all decided to stop this nonsense.

To conclude you can see that some people had more to do with the deaths then others. Fate could have a lot to do with the deaths as well. Out of all the people I blame Capulet the most. He is a grown man with a wonderful life. All he had to do is to stop the feud between the Capulet’s and the Montague’s and Romeo and Juliet could of lived a happy life and there would have been no deaths. Capulet thought he was so hard and loyal and thought there is no reason to stop this feud between the two families. Until the end when Romeo and Juliet are dead and he realises that him and his family are in the wrong.

Rhys Allen 10n English course work