Summary:
The adult characters in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are to blame for the death of the title characters. Lord and Lady Montague, Lord and Lady Capulet, and the Nurse are among those responsible.
Romeo and Juliet is a drama written by William Shakespeare. It takes place in a five-day span and at the end Romeo and Juliet die. Most of the responsibility for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet should be put upon the adults in this tragedy.
The adults in this heartbreak the adults include Load and Lady Montague, Lord and Lady Capulet, Nurse, and Friar Laurence, really should have the blame for the deaths of the two protagonists. Friar Laurence saying, "In one respect I'll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households' rancor to pure love," him trying to be helpful turns into four deaths. Friar Laurence decided to marry Romeo and Juliet because he thought that a marriage between the two would bring the Capulets and Montagues together as one, and Verona would be a peaceful town. "Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, then is it likely thou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame, that copest with death himself to scape from it; and, if though darest, I'll give thee remedy," Friar decides to help Juliet to get away to Mantua with Romeo. The potion that the Friar gives to Juliet makes her in a dead like state so her family thinks she is dead. The Friar makes a plan that would have Romeo come to Juliet's grave and bring her to Mantua.
The Nurse is another adult in the tragedy that should take responsibility. The Nurse helps the two get their marriage to happen. She even goes to Romeo and says, "For the gentlewoman is young and therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing," meaning that she makes sure that Romeo knows to that he better mean that he wants to marry Juliet. The Nurse helps Juliet to get to her wedding, as was the only person other than Friar Laurence to be there. After Romeo is banished to Mantua, the Nurse says, "Romeo is banish; and all the world to nothing that he dares ne'er come back to challenge; or if he do, it needs must be by stealth. Then since the case so stands as now it doth, I think it best you marry with the county." The Nurse changes her mind and tells her to forget about Romeo and marry Paris. After this Juliet has no hope and thinks about killing herself.
The blame to the deaths of the two main characters in the tragedy Romeo and Juliet should be the responsibility of two adults, Friar Laurence and the Nurse. These two in ways of trying to help these two, in the end, ends up in their death. At the end of the drama, we do not see what happens to the Nurse and Friar Laurence. We think to believe that Prince Escalus took action against them.
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