This quotation below tells us what went wrong. Perhaps if the Friar had taken his own advice and not allowed Romeo and Juliet to rush into their marriage and they might have lived. The Friar can sometimes be a little single-minded and see Romeo and Juliet as tools to help unite their families.
Romeo: “O let us hence! I stand on sudden haste.”
Friar: “Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
As a solution the Friar uses one of his medicines to fake Juliet’s death. Again as a result of this Romeo and Juliet die. If the Friar could have got the message earlier, Romeo would have known that she was under the influence of medicine. Then Romeo would not have committed suicide because he would have known Juliet was not actually dead.
I think Romeo killing Tybalt didn’t help matters for him as this led to his banishment and this then meant he could no longer see Juliet, without the risk of being killed. Tybalt gave Romeo the reason to kill him as he killed his closest friend Mercutio. We see that Romeo doesn’t mind taking risks or doesn’t think of what could happen if someone catches him.
The Nurse is like a mother to Juliet as she brought her up from birth. The Nurse isn’t clever or very sensitive and doesn’t do anything to warn Juliet of how an involvement with a Montague might cause problems to her and her family. The Nurse knows that Juliet is too young to get married but offers no advice and is eager for them to get married. While Tybalt was still alive the Nurse would say nice things of Romeo of how he’s a man of wax, but after Romeo killed Tybalt the Nurse turns against Romeo
“Will you speak well of him that killed your cousin”, “Shame come to Romeo”.
The Nurse starts to become two-faced because she had told Juliet to marry Romeo and then Paris.
If Lord and Lady Capulet hadn’t forced Juliet and had put it in her mind that she has to marry Paris, maybe this would have not happened after all. Juliet was running out of ideas and didn’t know what to do.
Fate did play an important part in the play as the sequence of events could have been bad luck or even been a slight coincidence. During the play we are reminded that Juliet and Romeo are going to die.
I think the Friar plays a fairly large part in the tragedy, mainly through his plans, which required more accurate timing. Romeo did not receive the letter, so when he heard the news from Balthasar, he thought Juliet was really dead. Friar Laurence should not have agreed to marry Romeo with Juliet without thinking of the consequences very carefully.
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