Friar Lawrence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

In what might William Shakespeare’s most acclaimed play, “Romeo and Juliet”, written in 1594, we are told the tragic story of two young “star-crossed lovers” falling for each other and the struggles they face as they try to find happiness with one another. This brilliantly written tale takes place in the Italian city of Verona, a place where two rival families call home and openly despise each other. Within these families two destined lovers emerge and eventually take their lives together to illustrate how much they truly loved each other. During the story there is a lot evidence showing that Friar Lawrence is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, although many other people are considered to take part of the blame as well. The nurse …show more content…
Once both of them have killed themselves, he leaves so his plan is never found out. The Nurse should also be blamed a great deal, as she convinced Juliet that she should marry Paris seeing that she’d never see Romeo again. If she was never to do this, Juliet wouldn’t accept to marry Paris and therefore wouldn’t have to take the potion. Even though the Nurse and Friar Lawrence were large contributors of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, their parents and also the Prince could of made a great impact on preventing this tragedy ever …show more content…
The Prince is just as responsible, seeing that he is the leader of the town and should have taken action. Considering that the house of Montague and Capulet had been getting into fights, he should have used his power to prevent these incidents occurring, thus taking a greater step to end the feud which would allow Romeo and Juliet to be happily married. However, Romeo and Juliet themselves are ultimately the ones responsible as they made the extreme decision on their

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Friar Lawrence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet