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Friar Lawrence To Blame In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Who was at fault for the death of Romeo and Juliet? The facts in the book “Romeo and Juliet”, written by William Shakespeare, all point to Friar Lawrence, because of the “help” he said to be doing with his plan. He entrusted a poison to juliet, he fled from the tomb, and above all he admitted to killing them himself. Friar Lawrence was to blame for Romeo and Juliet's death. The first reason that he was to blame is the fact that he give a 13 year old girl, who is unstable anyway, a poison to put her to sleep. In the book Friar says “When you are in bed, take his vile, a sleep induced drug will run through your veins, and your pulse will stop.” (lines 98-100) He is entrusting a 13 year old girl with a poison that can put her to sleep or worse. Also in the book Friar Lawrence says “Your body will be stiff and cold as a corpse.” (lines 282-284) He is explaining what this poison he is giving her is capable of. Friar lawrence also says “You will continue in this state for 42 hours then will awake s from a pleasant sleep.” (lines 108-110) This …show more content…

Although this wasn’t both Romeo and Juliet, he still could have saved Juliet. In the book on lines 103-1-4, it states “Come out of the tomb a greater power has ruined our plan.” This is a metaphor relating death to a power. It means since Romeo is dead our plan to go to Muntau has been ruined. Another evidence comes from lines 170-172, it states “The watch is coming, let's go juliet, i don't dare stay any longer.” This is explaining how he dont want to stay any longer because he don't want to be captured. The last evidence from this comes from lines 172. It states “Go get out of here, i not going anywhere. (Friar Lawrence runs offstage).” Although this isn't said by the Friar, it explains how he runs off of stage to keep from getting captured. He could have stayed and kept Juliet from killing

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