As soon as Juliet awakens, she realizes that he is dead and also commits suicide. However, there is slightly more to Romeo and Juliet than just that. Bad timing, misconceptions, and lack of communication also…
Actions have their consequences, whether they are detrimental or beneficial to the current situation. And the intent that is fed into those actions cannot always produced the desired results. In the classic tragedy, “Romeo and Juliet,” by William Shakespeare, the re-occurring theme of good intentions can lead to unforeseen problems is clearly demonstrated in the actions of Benvolio, the Nurse, and Friar Lawrence. Each of the formerly mentioned characters has acted in a way that ultimately leads to an unforeseen problem; most commonly the death of the young lovers, Romeo and Juliet.…
Friar Laurence’s plan is that Juliet must consent to marrying Paris and the night before their wedding she has to take this sleeping potion that will make her appear to be dead. She will then be put in the Capulet tomb and Friar will tell Romeo and he will come wake her up. This scene symbolizes the insecurity and lack of true feeling in the Capulets attitude towards Juliet This quote was said by Friar Laurence talking to Juliet about the seeping potion and that it will make her look dead, the color in her checks and lips will be pale.…
As Juliet takes the potion then wakes up to find out her Romeo is dead and along with Paris. Juliet has no other choice but to kill herself to be with the man she truly wants to be with. Then a little while longer all the people in Vernonia find out about her dead they all come racing back to find out her and Romeo are actually dead as they committed suicide to finally be together, Not to long after Lady Capulet is found dead from all this grief of her daughter being dead she was the only one who truly only cared about herself more than what Juliet was going…
In the play, Romeo and Juliet, the two doomed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, go through the ups and downs of marriage, to finally, their certain demise. However, one striking thing about this poem is all of the family deaths that they encounter. First, the loss of Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt. Next, Romeo best friend, Mercutio was killed in a fight. Then, Lady Montague, who commited suicide from grief, like Romeo and Juliet had.…
He thinks of an arrangement that includes an elixir. On the off chance that Juliet was not constrained into turning into the spouse of Paris by her folks, then Friar Lawrence would not to of needed to make the arrangement that exploded and wound up slaughtering the partners. Capulet and Lady Capulet's choice of wedding Juliet and Paris prompted to the numerous passings in the disaster. The last reason Romeo and Juliet's folks are to be faulted for the result of the play is that they changed the big day. As the Capulet house arranges to get married with Juliet and Paris, Juliet enters.…
Finally the day of the wedding, Juliet looks dead, so the wedding is turned into a burial and Juliet is pronounced dead. Later Romeo comes along and sees Juliet laying there “dead” and decides he needs to be with and is willing to take his own life so he kills himself. Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo dead and now feels she needs to die for real. A real funeral, then has taken place and Lord Capulet has decided that Juliet and Romeo were meant to be together. “As rich shall Romeo by his lady’s lie-/ Poor sacrifices of our enmity!”…
Ignorance and Vengeance caused it. By extension, I guess you'd say it was free will because Montegue and Capulet both used free will to fight and kill and quarrel with each other for who knows how long, but Karma or fate kind of decided the punishment for it, I guess. However, free will allowed both sides to end it at any time prior to Romeo and Juliet's deaths. They just never took it * It was fate that Juliet didn't wake up before he had killed himself.…
Friar sends a messenger to tell Romeo of the plan, but before the messenger could deliver the news, he became spooked and had to stop. By the time he could send another messenger to tell Romeo of the plan, Balthasar had already made it with news to tell him otherwise. With Balthasar advising Romeo that he had seen Juliet “laid low in her kindred’s vault” (Act V, S1, L19). Romeo couldn’t believe what he had heard from Balthasar, although not true, Romeo didn’t know this. Friar Laurence went again to tell Romeo but realised that it was too late, Romeo had left.…
She then decides to go find Friar Lawrence. Friar then comes up with a plan for Juliet to be with Romeo. He plans on having Juliet take a potion to make her parent ’s think she’s dead and then he and Romeo will go find her…
On Juliet’s balcony, she says she will marry Romeo, he just needs to send her word on what is happening. Romeo rushes to Friar asking if he would do the honors of marrying himself and Juliet. With convincing, eventually Friar Lawrence agrees to marry them by saying, “... Young waverer, come, go with me, in one respect I’ll thy assistant be” (II.iii.89-90). By agreeing to join the couple in marriage, Friar sets up every bad event that happens to Romeo and Juliet.…
For starters, Lord and Lady Capulet are the parents of Juliet and another obstacle in the way of Romeo and Juliet’s love. Lord Capulet starts off being considerate of his daughter’s feelings towards who she marries, “My will to her consent is but a part..”(Doc D- A1,S2) , before becoming more aggressive and unsympathetic of her feelings, “To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church,Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.” (Doc D- A3,S5) The change of Lord Capulet’s temperament takes place after Juliet consummates her secret marriage with Romeo because he thinks she’s ungrateful of his actions to make her happy but the truth is Romeo had already made her happy and she knew Paris couldn’t make her feel the same.…
In the play Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence is the most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. To begin, Friar Lawrence illegally marries Romeo to Juliet. The friar knows the couple's families have never gotten along, however without thinking about what the consequences are going to be between the families, he marries them. Also, Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potion that makes her seem dead for fourty-two hours. The Friar thinks the only way out of the mess he makes is for everyone to think Juliet is dead; so she can not marry Paris but, the friar does not think about what could happen if Juliet woke up too soon or too late.…
Often it is likely that people have good intentions and mean well, but the choices they choose to make can lead to consequences and cause problems for many. “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions” is a quote said by T.S Elliot which helps to prove that many negative things come from the people with good intentions, and do not directly mean to cause harm. In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, the play finishes with a tragic ending where the two main character’s take their own lives due to the character’s choices throughout the book that helped lead to this ending. Although Friar Laurence, Capulet, and Romeo and Juliet all have the best of intentions, their actions contribute to the tragic ending of this play.…
Whether he knew Romeo was going to kill himself or not, Juliet drank the potion and Romeo died next to her. The good thing that he was the death caused the families to unite again, but I doubt that lasted. The Capulets were selfish and chose who and what Juliet was. The Montagues were very volatile and started fights where ever they saw someone that they did not like. Together those to families pushed Juliet and Romeo to keep the secret and ultimately kill themselves.…