The Importance Of Love In William Shakespeare's 'Romeo And Juliet'

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"Romeo and Juliet is a play about two silly, immature teenagers who lack common sense. Therefore, the play expresses the danger of a love in which two people become the whole world to one another." Do you agree?

I believe that this statement is very true as I believe that Romeo and Juliet let their love get the best them. Both Romeo and Juliet could have avoided most of the tragedy if they didn’t put being in love at the top of their priorities while forgetting their other priorities such as their friends, family and status. Although being in ‘love’ can affect ones actions and emotions, I believe that due to Romeo and Juliet being so young and being so inexperienced did not know how to deal with these emotions in a sensible manner. Romeo
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Although the Montagues and the Capulets are mostly at fault for getting their children, their servants and the towns people involved in their feud, I believe that both families should be pardoned as both of them have lost their only children. The Capulet family ended up losing their cousin Tybalt and only daughter Juliet whereas the house of Montague lost their only son Romeo, and Lady Montague who died of grief. With the loss of all these lives I think that both houses have already been punished by fate due to the feud created by Lord Montague and Capulet and therefore have suffered enough and do not require more punishment from Prince Escales. Although I think these families should be pardoned, I believe that the non-biased characters in the play should be punished. This would include the nurse and Friar Lawrence. Both were significant figures of authority in the lives of Romeo and Juliet and both meddled too far into their lives and were largely responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s death yet both were not really affected by the outcome. If the Friar didn’t encourage Juliet to go to extreme circumstances to get out of her second marriage and if the nurse was upfront with Juliet’s parents like a responsible figure of authority, then I think that Romeo and Juliet’s situation would be more controlled and less …show more content…
Ultimately, I do believe the Friar did have a lot of influence on Romeo and Juliet’s actions as both Romeo and Juliet could not really trust either of their parents and the Friar was quite a mutual character. Therefore a lot of responsibility and pressure was placed onto the Friar, representing him as somewhat of a father figure. The Friar was carrying a lot baggage, such as Romeo and Juliet’s marriage, and had a strong desire for the feud to end with Montagues and the Capulets. Although his opinions were not biased to a family, they were biased with peace in Verona being his main interest. The Friar was given too much power over these naïve and vulnerable, love sick teenagers and therefore lead to him manipulating their actions for his own somewhat selfish desire to end the feud. Although the Friar did slightly abuse his influence over Romeo and Juliet’s decisions, I do not think he is ultimately to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death. Remembering that the Friar was the only adult both Romeo and Juliet could turn to after Juliet’s parents had proven themselves rash and the nurse proven herself incompetent, he did have the power to direct them in the right direction. Due to Juliet being in such a state because she was going to marry Count Paris within a matter of days, I believe that the Friar gave Juliet the vial in a final desperate attempt to save the

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