People have different opinions on who was responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s death. It could have been their families fault for fighting for so many years. It could have been the nurses or Friar Laurence’s fault for helping out. It could have been their own fault for falling in love, Marring the day after they met, lying to everyone. They were young; nobody told them what happens when you’re in love or how you know if you’re in love.
By the end of the prologue we know that the play is two hours long and that traffic of actors will be going on and off stage.
Friar Laurence’s speech is at the end of the play. In his speech he goes through everything he knows about Romeo and Juliet’s love affair. The Friar begins by telling everyone that they were married and thinking that he would stop the Capulet and Montague fighting by bringing the two families together by marrying them on the same day Tybalts “untimely death” occurred.
He surprises Capulet on saying that Juliet was pining for her newly wed bride-groom who had been banished to Mantua and not for her cousin. She later goes to the Friar for help to get her out of the second marriage to County Paris that was forced upon her or shed kill herself in his cell.
His contribution to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is that first, he knew they were a couple and married them, secondly, he then kept Romeo in his cell hiding from the law and finally it was his idea of the fake death for Juliet in Act 4.
Friar Laurence was a part of Romeo and Juliet deaths, He knew about them and helped them as much as he could. He could made a lot of different choices, for example, instead of marrying them knowing they had just met yesterday he should of told them that if they were very serious then they should wait as love is blind to the young.
At the end of his speech he exclaims “let my old life, be sacrificed some hour before his time” meaning if you think any of this is my fault then I deserve to die.
At the beginning of the play Romeo was pining after Rosaline, however, at the Capulet ball Romeo meets a girl who he suddenly falls in love with Juliet, Capulets daughter. They kiss and Romeo forgets about the girl who is supposedly in love with just days before.
In act 2 Romeo and Juliet decide that they want to get married that day. Juliet sends the nurse out to see if Romeo is serious about them getting married. However, after they got married Tybalt was waiting for him and wanting revenge for intruding upon their party. Romeo didn’t want to fight as they were family but Tybalt didn’t know that. Mercutio, however, had other ideas so he fights Tybalt.
Romeo then tries to get between them but that wasn’t a good idea because it makes Mercutio unfocused and Tybalt stabs him. Romeo now changes his mind and fights Tybalt in an angry outrage and kills him.
Romeo changes his mind a lot in the play. He changes his mind about Rosaline; he changes his mind about staying with Juliet and risking being caught, changes his mind about fighting Tybalt and once again changes his mind outside the tomb with Paris.
Romeo hears about Juliet’s death and rushed back to Verona, he buys a poison to kill himself with. Outside the tomb Romeo is about to kill himself with Juliet but when Paris arrives he believes Romeo is going to do something terrible to the tomb therefore he challenges Romeo to fight and Romeo accepts after changing his mind once again . He then kills Paris and lies him next to Juliet which was his last wish.
Inside the tomb Romeo talks to himself as it would be his last. He drinks the poison and dies. Juliet’s then wakes and refuses to leave with Friar Laurence then kills her self with Romeo’s dagger.
It could have been Romeos fault because he killed Tybalt which caused him to be banished and makes Juliet pine for him, however, her father believes Juliet is upset because of her cousins death so he makes plans for Juliet and Paris to be wed on Thursday which makes her panic and take the potion Friar Laurence gave her, Of course Romeo was totally unaware of what was going on so he believed everything he was told. If the letter had got to Romeo than he wouldn’t have killed him self because of Juliet and Juliet wouldn’t of killed her self because of Romeo
Juliet was probably about fourteen years old when she met Romeo.
Her mother told her that County Paris wanted her to become his wife but she wasn’t sure however at the Capulet party she met Romeo and fell in love. She then finds out that a Montague but later on Juliet says it only a name why should that matter. So they decide to get married the next day in secret, after they got married Tybalt was waiting for Romeo and after Romeo kills Tybalt he’s is banished to Mantua. Later on Romeo goes to see Juliet but has to flee in the morning. Juliet is very upset. Her father believes that she’s upset about Tybalt so arranges a marriage for her and Paris.
Of course she wasn’t happy with this at all so she runs to Friar Laurence’s cell for help and to get her out of the marriage to Paris.
At first he refused so she threatened to kill herself right there in his cell. She later goes to her parents to apologise and takes the sleeping drug in the night. The next morning she is found “dead”. When she woke she found her husband who she loved lying dead next to her so refusing to leave with friar she kills herself with Romeo’s dagger.
Some of her choices in the play were bad, for example, when she gets the nurse involved to go to Romeo, the nurse is now lying to her employers. It could have been Juliet’s fault for going along with everything so quickly and not asking for advice.
Capulet made many choices for his daughter some bad some good. The bad choices were at the beginning when Paris first asked for Juliet’s hand in marriage he decided she was too young.
The worst choice he made for Juliet was when he was trying to cheer her up in forcing her to marry Paris in two or three days when she’s only been married to Romeo for only a couple of days. If she refused to marry Paris she would be disowned.
He could have made different choices. Instead of forcing her to cheer up, he could have asked her what was wrong, what he could do to help, was there anything he could do to help?
It could have been Capulets fault for forcing Juliet into an unwanted marriage and making her to take the potion just so she couldn’t become Paris’s wife.
The Friar wrote a letter to Romeo telling about the plan which had to be delivered by Friar John: However, the letter got delayed because he was quarantined in a house with people who had the plague.
It could have made a difference if the letter had made it to Romeo. Than I think the plan would have worked. I believe that fate probably had a bit to do with the deaths and why nothing really worked out for them.
The nurse was just a sort of run-around messenger for Romeo and Juliet. All she did was making sure if Romeo was serious about getting married to put Juliet’s mind at ease as she couldn’t be seen talking to him.
So I don’t think the nurse had a lot to do with the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Other than the Friar, she knew more about the plot than anyone. She knew the terrible risk the young girl in her care was taking.
I think all Tybalt was doing was what he’d been doing all his life, protecting the family’s name. However, as it was Romeo he wanted to fight and I know Mercutio fought Tybalt for his friend but there was no real reason to fight Tybalt or kill Mercutio.
If Tybalt didn’t kill Mercutio then Romeo wouldn’t of killed Tybalt and not be banished to Mantua.
I believe if Romeo just walked away then Tybalt still would have run after him, then Juliet would have killed herself as well.
When considering who was at fault for the lovers deaths my feelings are that everyone had a part in the love affair. Even if their part was big or small, none of them stopped and thought about what might happen if both families find out. There would be a huge brawl in the streets, so many innocent people would get killed because Romeo and Juliet didnt think of the consequences.
Friar Laurence thought that the families would sort their differences out even though they've been arguing for years. Until they had both killed themselves the families never found out.
I’m not sure they even truly loved each other; I think they just fancied each other a lot and were overwhelmed with the excitement of being in a relationship with the child of who there families despise so much.
