Romeo And Juliet Essay

Submitted By Shantae-Thibodeaux
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Shantae’ Thibodeaux
March 17, 2015
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Romeo and Juliet Essay In William Shakespeare’s play
Romeo and Juliet, the irresponsibility of Friar Lawrence and
Lord Capulet’s stubbornness play major roles in the tragic deaths of the play’s title characters.
The play was written the way William Shakespeare wrote it because he is trying to show that hatred between people can cause a lot of pain and suffering. Do to Friar Lawrence’s immature and lazy behavior, he is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. For example, Romeo runs to Friar Lawrence as he is gardening and asks him to secretly marry him and Juliet without either of their families knowing. As Friar Lawrence thinks about Romeo and Juliet’s marriage, he thinks it will bring the two families together, and will stop the feud, so he chooses to marry them. Friar Lawrence’s decision to marry them secretly leads to their death because if he told either of the feuding families there would be none of the fighting and deaths. In addition when Friar Lawrence goes to the tomb and finds Romeo and Paris dead, he tells Juliet the constables are coming, but she refuses to leave Romeo’s dead body, so he leaves Juliet there alone. Friar Lawrence leaving Juliet instead of taking the fall shows that the
Friar is a self­centered man, who was not thinking of all the bad that could happen when he agreed to do all the illegal things for Romeo and Juliet. It also shows that Friar Lawrence was afraid of the consequences he knew were ahead so he left without any other reason. The two young lovers meet their untimely deaths because of Friar Lawrence’s foolish behavior and ideas.

Lord Capulet is also responsible for contributing to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’s death because of his bold­headedness and controlling behavior. For example, after Lady Capulet told
Juliet she was going to marry Paris, Juliet refused, when Lord Capulet heard