Death In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Death is a mysterious thing, you can't avoid it and never know when its coming sometimes it could be someone's fault and that's exactly what happened with these two lovers. Romeo and Juliet died because of bad decisions that the Friar and the Nurse made. They made decisions to make a marriage someone didn't want, or give something to someone that could have major consequences, even go against a family's private life for love, this is what killed Romeo and Juliet.

A person to blame for Romeo and Juliet's death would have to be the Friar. The Friar married romeo and juliet but only to try to stop the feud and didn't think about consequences. The friar only thought about himself and didn't care about anything else. Not only did friar not care about what would happen but it made complications with making Juliet marry paris. When juliet found out she were to marry Paris she claims she would kill herself then be with him, “O bid me leap, rather then marry Paris, from of battlements of any tower.” Juliet was willing to go to extremes to not be with Paris. She is saying that she would do anything, like die, to not be with Paris. Which she does or pretends to do. This is Friars fault because he wanted to end the feud, so he
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They both thought that they were helping Romeo and Juliet but overall, they only hurt Romeo and Juliet even more than everyone else did. If only these two had listened to Romeo and Juliet and their thoughts about what would happen, then maybe the two lovers would still be alive. In life, people should do whatever it is they want and to not listen to people who don't know what they're doing. These people could be totally wrong about everything and ruin the situation even more, just like the Friar and Nurse did. This can even apply if they are adults and think they know what they’re doing. Usually only the person who is in the situation is the only one who knows what to

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