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Romeo and Juliet

rds, come, Nurse, Ill to my wedding bed, and death, not Romeo take my maidenhead,"(136-137) explains that Juliet would rather die a virgin rather than live without Romeo. The parents have proven many times how they could be the cause of the lovers deaths.The Friar can also be blamed for the deaths. For one, he is the person that agrees to marry the lovers. "In one respect Ill thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households rancor to pure love,"(93-94). Though the friar may mean good, he can ultimately be traced back to their deaths. If he had not married them, than maybe Romeo and Juliet would have forgotten about each other, or ran away together, or solved their problems in other ways. The friar also could be blamed because he is the one that thought of the plan. By doing this, he foreshadows the deaths. He gives another complication to the plot, while he is still trying to do good. His plan, although it could work, probably is not plausible. This is seen by all the bends that have to take place in order for it to actually work. "Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hopeAnd in this borrowed likeness of shrunken death, thou shalt continue two and forty hours and then awake from a pleasant sleepIn the meantime, against thou shalt awake, shall Romeo by my letters know our drift and hither shall he come,"(69-116). This tells of the friars plan and shows how outrageous it truly is. Lastly, Friar Lawrence could be to blame because he should have been there in the cell to stop Romeo from killing himself and then from Juliet also for killing herself. If he had been there, then Romeo would have never taken to poison because he would have known that Juliet was not really dead. He said that he was going to be in the cell waiting for Juliet to wake up, but he wasnt. When Romeo killed himself, it was just moments before Juliet woke up, so he should have been down there to save both of them.Lastly, Romeo...

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