... happens again they will be executed. Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbor-strain steel If ever disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. (pg 996: 89-90 and 104-105). Additionally and perhaps most notably, Another fight breaks out and Tybalt wants to fight Romeo but Romeo denies his ... revolt turn to another, this shall slay them both. (pg 1074: 64-66) but Friar stops her and gives her a potion so that she will appear dead and be put in her family tomb where shell wake up to Romeo and they can go away together without her having...

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... to Paris, even though she is already married to Romeo, she plots with Friar Laurence to fake her own death. After she drinks the potion, her body goes into a coma-like state, and her family believe that she is really dead, and she is placed in her family tomb. However, because of a flaw in their plan, Romeo ends up seeing Juliet in ... the tomb and believes that she really is dead. Tragically, he then poisons himself out of grief of the loss of his wife. "Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." "Unfortunately, Juliet wakes up too late, and awakes to find her Romeo ... dead. Out o...

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... catches our attention by being very loud and creates a little humour with sarcasm. After the Capulet party when Romeo went missing Mercutio insults Romeo in a friendly way by making the remark, " The ape is dead and I must conjure him thee by Rosaline's bright eyes." (2, 1, ll 16-17) He is also the type to tell things how they are and does not hold information back to ... your households rancor to pure love." (2, 3, ll 91-92) The Friar was also the man that created the plan to help Juliet avoid getting married to Paris and committing the sin of bigamy. He believes all will end up as pla...

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... , shows how naive he really is in many ways. These many flaws in Romeo cause many problems leading up to the tragedy. Therefore, the person who is the most responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is Romeo Montague. Romeo is a youth and although he is older than Juliet, he ... sensible warnings and work out a way in which everyone is happy and alive. Romeo is also naive in many ways which also contributes to the occurrence of the tragedy. Romeo has no experience with how to solve a problem. This is shown when he takes his life for Juliet rather than face ... the many times he sho...

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... just gotten married and now ends up killing his wife's cousin that was an act of real hate. The fact about this part was that hate over ruled the love of Romeo and his family. The love for each other had a great effect on them. Hate was more powerful in a way that it ... . The hate ended up splitting the lovers in half. The parents made the marriage closer so Juliet would not and Romeo could be happy together. When Romeo was banished from the city of Verona, Juliet drank a poison that was supposed to kill her. When Romeo returned, he found Juliet lying in a sepulchure supposedly dead. Whe...

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... This do I drink to thee" (Act IV, sc. iii, l.60). Though Friar Lawrence's plan seemed feasible, bad timing disillusioned his intentions. Friar John couldn't deliver the letter to Romeo, which created more complications. When Friar John comes to Friar Lawrence saying, "I could not send it nor get a messenger to bring it thee- (Act ... (Act V, sc. i, ll. 20-21). Despite Friar John's intents to help Friar Lawrence, nothing could stop the tragic outcome that followed. Friar Lawrence shows up late to the Capulet tomb, generating the wanted effects of bad timing. Friar Lawrence knows he's too l...

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... solve Romeo's problems. They would always, "willingly give cure as known", and would always help Romeo to evade them or simply just give him the solutions. This lead to Romeo's inability to solve his own problems that he faced when he was banished. He panicked and could do nothing but ... their consequences. This is why when having to deal with one, he could not and crumbled. "Right glad I am that he was not at the fray" claims Lady Montague and had made Romeo soft with her over-emotiveness in her bid to protect Romeo form any form of harm. This ... asked for a quick acting potion, "a ...

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... " (III.i.61-63). In order to defend his friend's honor, Mercutio decided to fight on behalf of Romeo, but unfortunately, Romeo interfere the vicious fighters, and Tybalt killed Mercutio under the arms of Romeo. Shortly after realizing that his love for Juliet is making him a chicken, Romeo slays Tybalt saying: " Tybalt, that an ... drink thou off; (IV, i, 89-93). In plain words Juliet will take a sleeping potion that will make her appear dead so her marriage with Paris will be avoided, meanwhile after receiving a letter from the Friar Romeo would return to Verona from Mantua and would be...

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... crying over Romeo leaving the city of Verona. Lady Capulet states, "Everyone weeping for your cousin's death?/What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?"(III.V.71-72). Another example of dramatic irony is when Juliet takes a potion that makes her appear dead to show everyone that ... she couldn't live without her Romeo. After she was back from faking her death, Romeo drank a poison to kill him so he could be with Juliet the rest of his life, but when he drank the poison he didn't know that Juliet ... "Here's to my love O true love apothecary/Thy drugs are quick..Thus with a ki...

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... be with Juliet, she tells him that "if they do see thee, they will murder thee". 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". Depression is another symptom of love, when Romeo ... only love sprung from her only hate" showing that she too realises that hate is what will keep them apart. If hatred was not a theme in the play, Romeo and Juliet wouldn't have died, nor would Mercutio or Tybalt. Tybalt is constantly trying to pick a fight with Romeo, showing his hatred ... when ...

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... , Romeo states, "This day's black fate on more days doth depend" (III, i, 118). This shows that Romeo believes that fate will bring to a close the chain reaction that was started with Mercutio's death. After Romeo avenges Mercutio's death by killing Tybalt, he exclaims, "O, I am fortune's fool!" (III, i, 135 ... III, iii, 12). This shows that Romeo would rather die than be separated from Juliet. This foreshadows Romeo's fortune at the end of the play. Romeo's fate is to die at the end for his love. Romeo is driven to suicide by circumstances beyond his control. These circumstances were fa...

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... meets Juliet. He is impulsive and passionate: he falls in love with Juliet and marries her. When his friend is killed by Juliet's cousin, Romeo avenges the murder " and as a punishment he is banished from his native city of Verona and his newly-married wife. Benvolio One of Romeo's friends. He ... an interesting one: he is always available to offer an explanation. Mercutio Romeo's other friend. He is full of energy, which is shown in the way he uses words, always playing with two or more meanings in a single word. His vitality leads him to challenge Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, to fight a ...

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... of wallowing in his self-pity. He strengthened Romeo's character and gave him a more experienced outlook on love. Romeo also displayed friendly love throughout the play. The first instance of this is when he tries to prevent a fight between Mercutio and Tybalt (pg. 652, Line 83). Romeo tries to reason with ... his Mercutio's life: "Alive in triumph, and Mercutio slain?/ Away to heaven respective lenity, and fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!/ Now, Tybalt, take the "villain" back again that late though gavest me; for Mercutio's soul I but a little way above our heads/ Staying for thine to k...

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... Juliet. He should have told the parents about the marriage because he says that " this alliance may so happily prove to turn your households" rancour to pure love." He should have told the parents so that the feud could turn to friendship if his statement was truthful. He should not have given Juliet the potion to make her appear dead. On the other hand Juliet was threatening ... to kill herself if the problem of her marriage to Paris wasn't solved,so this haste excuses his ... actions to some extent. When sending word of his plan to Romeo explaining Juliet's "death", he should have at...

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... she wanted to be selfish and didn't want the woman in the other door to be married to her love. In the story the girl behind the door was "one of the farest and loveliest of the damsels of the court who had been selected as the reward of the accused youth; and the princess hated her". The princess would rather see her lover dead because she was a "semi-barbaric princess" like her ... father. The "intensity of the savage blood transmitted to her through long lines ... of wholly barbaric ancestors, she hated the woman who blushed ... ...

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... it would be considered a sin to marry Juliet again so he comes up with a plan to have her appear dead so that it postpones the marriage and everyone thinks she is really dead. When he is telling Juliet about the plan he has, he says, "Thou wilt undertake/ A thing like death to chide away this shame" (v.i. ... 73-74). He says this because it's all part of the plan to make her appear dead and once she is put in the tomb, Romeo will go and save her before she awakens. When Juliet's parents, the nurse and Paris find Juliet dead, they are devastated, very confused and Lady Capulet is shocked w...

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... me/ That I must love a loathed enemy"(I.v.139-140). In Romeo and Juliet, there is a mixture of fate and responsibility. Many people affect the outcome of the two lovers" lives, but no more than Romeo and Juliet themselves. Although fate is at work from beginning to end, Romeo and Juliet determine their ... -138). In addition to their forbidden love, they not only get engaged but also are married after one night. After the party, Juliet proposes. "If that bent of love be honorable/ Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow"(II.ii.143-144). Because of ... dead. "Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, I ...

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... in their private vault where Romeo would awaken her and they would run away and live together forever. Well, Romeo never got the message that was sent to him about the plan. He simply got news that Juliet was supposedly dead. Unable to go on with life, he bought poison and went to Juliet's family vault where Juliet lay. Romeo wanted to die ... and be dead along with Juliet. He drank the poison at exactly the same second he woke up. They both stared at each other in disbelief until Romeo finally fell to his death. Then Juliet, in sadness and in anger killed herself ... and they both lay...

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... potion and then getting to Mantua half-dead in a coffin, Juliet shouldn't go to St. Peters church on Thursday and marry Paris. Then when Juliet doesn't show up at the church on Thursday, Lord Capulet would kick her out of the family and send her to live on the streets with the homeless people. Then after Juliet got kicked out of her home, Friar Lawrence ... to Verona or tell Balthasar to give a letter to Friar Lawrence, telling him to please pick up Juliet off the streets and send her to Mantua so they could live together. This way Romeo wouldn't kill himself because he thought Juliet w...

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... have thought about what he was doing, or even gone to the Friar to see what happened, he wouldn't have gone to the apothecary to get the poison. When he arrived he saw Juliet lying "dead." He loved her so much that if she were dead he would want to be dead also, so he took the poison and killed himself right there. What he didn't know ... is that Juliet wasn't really dead, she was just in a "deep sleep." Capulet was ... but he just wanted his daughter to get married. If he wouldn't have made Juliet marry Paris so soon, she wouldn't have gotten upset and gotten the potion from the Friar...

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... have thought about what he was doing, or even gone to the Friar to see what happened, he wouldn't have gone to the apothecary to get the poison. When he arrived he saw Juliet lying "dead." He loved her so much that if she were dead he would want to be dead also, so he took the poison and killed himself right there. What he didn't know ... is that Juliet wasn't really dead, she was just in a "deep sleep." Capulet was ... but he just wanted his daughter to get married. If he wouldn't have made Juliet marry Paris so soon, she wouldn't have gotten upset and gotten the potion from the Friar...

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... with Mercutio and Mercutio is killed. Romeo is enraged and screams "fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!" (Shakespeare, iii.i.120). He sees his friend Mercutio lying dead on the ground and anger burns through his body. He hunts down Tybalt, a Capulet, and kills him. This is where he lacks common sense and logic once again because he has now ... ; (Shakespeare, iv.i.122). Because of her love for Romeo, she goes to desperate levels, loses her common sense, and drinks the potion provided by the Friar, regardless of the risks involved. She forsakes her family, and when she wakes up to find Rome...

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... see Friar Laurence and ask him for help or she will kill herself. Fearing the worst, he devised a plan with the use of a poison which would beguile her parents into believing she was dead. Later on, Friar Laurence, would send word to Romeo telling him that Juliet was not dead and he would have to come from Mantua to flee together. Friar Laurence is ... partly to blame for the tragedy that followed. As a priest, he failed to convince them that they should be more patient and not rush getting married. Another mistake was agreeing to marry them ... thinking, he sets out to find an apothec...

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... way, was not all his fault, but he could of prevented it by just giving more effort. For example, when Friar Lawrence and Juliet agree on the plan to temporarily make Juliet look dead (act four scene 1), Friar Lawrence wrote a letter to Romeo telling him what was really going on. Well, Romeo did not get that letter on time, so he ended ... should not of agreed to leave Juliet all alone. Because then Juliet wouldn't of killed herself when she saw Romeo dead. Instead Friar Lawrence only cared about himself, and ran out of the tomb immediately when he heard someone was coming. Thirdly, the...

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... as he won't be able to see Juliet any more. Their last night together is their honeymoon. Afterwards Romeo has to leave the city and Juliet is distraught. The friar Lawrence has a plan. It makes Juliet seem dead; all she has to do is take a concoction the friar makes up. Romeo will come and take her away. To let Romeo know Juliet isn't really ... dead he sends a messenger to tell him; the plan doesn't work though, because the guards at Mantua (where Romeo is) don't let the messenger in due to the plague. Romeo then thinks Juliet is dead and in a flourish of anger rushes to Verona to see...

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