"It is not so much the central characters of the play, Romeo and Juliet themselves, as the minor characters that are responsible for their tragic end." ... The Friar doesn't play a very large part in Romeo and Juliet's tragic end. ... This is not good because it is too hasty as he points out when he says, "These violent delights have violent ends" which comes true within the next two acts. ... Therefore, Romeo and Juliet cannot have a normal relationship and must keep their love for each other well. ... Mercutio contributes slightly to Romeo and Juliet's untimely end. ...

• Word Count: 1054
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"It is not so much the central characters of the play, Romeo and Juliet themselves, as the minor characters that are responsible for their tragic end." ... The Friar doesn't play a very large part in Romeo and Juliet's tragic end. ... This is not good because it is too hasty as he points out when he says, "These violent delights have violent ends" which comes true within the next two acts. ... Therefore, Romeo and Juliet cannot have a normal relationship and must keep their love for each other well. ... Mercutio contributes slightly to Romeo and Juliet's untimely end. ...

• Word Count: 1052
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance". ... "Then love-devouring death do what he dare, it is enough, I may but call Her mine" Friar Laurence tells Romeo that this marriage may come to a violent end. "These violent delights have violent ends. Friar is also telling Romeo that the marriage is violent and dangerous. ... "He told ME Paris should have married Juliet. ...

• Word Count: 1816
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

These forces all aid the eventual deaths of Juliet, Romeo, Paris, Mercutio and Tybalt. ... Love is one of the main causes of Romeo and Juliet's death but in doing this it ends the ancient fighting between the two families. ... The love between Romeo and Juliet is described as "too rash, too sudden, too unadvised" and even the Friar says that "these violent delights have violent ends". ... Romeo and Juliet's love wouldn't have been forbidden if it wasn't for the hate between the Capulets and Montagues. ... If hatred was not a theme in the play, Romeo and Juliet wouldn't...

• Word Count: 783
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• Grade Level: High School

Romeo and Juliet, dubbed as a romantic tragedy, is more about love than hate. ... As to many contrasts, hate is represented in the Romeo and Juliet to illustrate the idea of the balance in nature. ... Romeo and Juliet's love for each other is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. ... The lovers have a fair share of both, yet in the end it is their intense longing to be together, united in death, that consolidates the point Shakespeare wishes to make about the nature of true love. ... Even at the end, his final words were: "...

• Word Count: 1908
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School