romeo and Juliet
...0). Still not willingly he need the money and decides to sell Romeo the poison. Wieteska 2 “My Poverty but not my will consents”(5.1. 78). The Apothecary warns Romeo that once he has drank the poison there is no turning back. “Put this in any liquid thing you will/ and drink it off, and you had the strength/ of twenty men it would dispatch you straight”(5.1. 80-82) Capulet the head of the Capulet household, otherwise known as Juliet’s father, takes on quite a bit of responsibility for his daughter’s death. Capulet assures himself that Juliet will marry Paris, tells him that she and him will marry. “Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender/ of my child’s love I think that she will be rules/ in all respects by me-nay more, I doubt it not”(3.4. 12-14). Outraged by the plan that Capulet has made for her, Juliet confronts him and tells him that the marriage will not happen and she will not follow the orders that he has given. Over come by the response Juliet has just proposed he is quickly angered and tells her you either do as I say or there will be consequences. “Get thee to church Thursday/ or never after look me in the face/ speak not reply not, do not answer me. (1.1.67-68). After pleading with her father to reconsider what he has proposed to her, his reply was once again filled with anger reply’s. “How now, how now? Chopped logic? What is this? ‘proud’ and ‘I thank you’ and ‘I thank you not’ and yet ‘not proud’? Mistress minion you.(3.5. 153-155) Wieteska 3 The final and most accountable for the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet is Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence is the main source of help for both star- crossed lovers. Since Juliet was notified that she must marry Paris she was unhappy and went to Friar Laurence for guidance to the situation. He gave her the solution to drink a potion that made her seem lifeless and dead and to be rescued in fourty- two hours by her husband who was banned from Verona. “If thou darest, I’ll give thee a remedy”(4.1. 77) “and this dis-stilling liquor drink thou off/ when presently through all thy veins shall run/ a cold pulse and drowsy humor, for no pulse.”(4.1.95-97). Delivering the message by a letter was not exactly the best idea for Romeo to find out because it never reached him and therefore he truly believed that Juliet was dead because of the words his man Balthasar spoke. The outcome that Friar Laurence w...