“For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo,” (Act V, Scene III, Lines 320-321.) A play of tragedy, love and maturing this is a writing piece of discovery that all people of any age can relate to. In Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, the two star-crossed lovers have many people to blame for decisions that lead to the tragic ending of their relationship. Once Juliet is born, her mother gives her a wet nurse, named Nurse, who plays a key part in Romeo and Juliet’s demise. Nurse does not know how to use her knowledge of Juliet’s personality to her benefit in situations. Juliet often has confusion and feels her fate confines her. For example, when Juliet’s parents abandon her once she tells them that she refuses to marry
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The Friar does not give concern for the wellbeing of individuals. The Friar when asked by Romeo to marry him and Juliet. He yells at Romeo with disgust at the mere idea, yet he still agrees to it. Furthermore, he explains that the only reason he is doing it is not for Romeo and Juliet, but for the citizens of Verona, Italy in the sixteenth century. Which he does verbally say, “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households’ rancor to pure love,” (Act II, Sc, III, Lines 97-99.) Also, Friar Lawrence fails to realize seriousness of situations similar to the nurse. When Friar John tells Friar Lawrence of how Romeo does not receive the letter he wastes time by telling Friar John to go get the tools he needs to save Juliet from being alone in the vault. Secondly, Friar spends his time talking to Romeo’s page, Balthasar after Balthasar tells him how Romeo turns up inside the vault, before his arrival. These two situations when Friar Lawrence wastes his time with talking to others or making them go and get the things when he may have been able to stop not one, but both. Finally, the Friar can allow his reputation to get the best of him. People of Verona know the Friar as one of the good guys. Yet, when Juliet discovers Romeo dead, Friar Lawrence does not take much time in trying to persuade Juliet to leave. He refuses to take any …show more content…
The male leader, Lord Capulet, does not stick to his word when he speaks to his daughter, He seems at first to go along with Elizabethan formalities as he pushed off people who wish to marry Juliet, due to him seeing her as too young to be with someone in that manner. However, with the death of his saucy nephew, Tybalt, he immediately rushes to make plans for a wedding for Juliet, less than a week later, He comments happily to the suitor Paris, “O’ Thursday let it be. -O’ Thursday, tell her, She shall be married to this noble earl,” (Act III, Sc. V, Lines 23-24.) Then there is the female leader, Lady Capulet who sticks harshly to the style of Elizabethan parenting over being a good mother. When her husband yells at Juliet when she refuses to marry Paris, Lady Capulet disagrees, Yet, she does not make any move to speak her mind more than one time. She, in the end, goes along with her husband, and remarks to Juliet’s plea for help calmly, “Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee, (Act III, Sc. V, Lines 214-215.) Lady Capulet ignores her daughter 's question as it is considered her place at the time to say anything against what her husband desires. Going back to her husband, Lord Capulet as a parent does not know his daughter, his heir, his only
The Friar does not give concern for the wellbeing of individuals. The Friar when asked by Romeo to marry him and Juliet. He yells at Romeo with disgust at the mere idea, yet he still agrees to it. Furthermore, he explains that the only reason he is doing it is not for Romeo and Juliet, but for the citizens of Verona, Italy in the sixteenth century. Which he does verbally say, “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households’ rancor to pure love,” (Act II, Sc, III, Lines 97-99.) Also, Friar Lawrence fails to realize seriousness of situations similar to the nurse. When Friar John tells Friar Lawrence of how Romeo does not receive the letter he wastes time by telling Friar John to go get the tools he needs to save Juliet from being alone in the vault. Secondly, Friar spends his time talking to Romeo’s page, Balthasar after Balthasar tells him how Romeo turns up inside the vault, before his arrival. These two situations when Friar Lawrence wastes his time with talking to others or making them go and get the things when he may have been able to stop not one, but both. Finally, the Friar can allow his reputation to get the best of him. People of Verona know the Friar as one of the good guys. Yet, when Juliet discovers Romeo dead, Friar Lawrence does not take much time in trying to persuade Juliet to leave. He refuses to take any …show more content…
The male leader, Lord Capulet, does not stick to his word when he speaks to his daughter, He seems at first to go along with Elizabethan formalities as he pushed off people who wish to marry Juliet, due to him seeing her as too young to be with someone in that manner. However, with the death of his saucy nephew, Tybalt, he immediately rushes to make plans for a wedding for Juliet, less than a week later, He comments happily to the suitor Paris, “O’ Thursday let it be. -O’ Thursday, tell her, She shall be married to this noble earl,” (Act III, Sc. V, Lines 23-24.) Then there is the female leader, Lady Capulet who sticks harshly to the style of Elizabethan parenting over being a good mother. When her husband yells at Juliet when she refuses to marry Paris, Lady Capulet disagrees, Yet, she does not make any move to speak her mind more than one time. She, in the end, goes along with her husband, and remarks to Juliet’s plea for help calmly, “Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee, (Act III, Sc. V, Lines 214-215.) Lady Capulet ignores her daughter 's question as it is considered her place at the time to say anything against what her husband desires. Going back to her husband, Lord Capulet as a parent does not know his daughter, his heir, his only