Romeo & Juliet - Who is responsible for there deaths?
Everyone has a theory about who was ultimately responsible for the untimely death of the young love struck couple, Romeo and Juliet. However, in my opinion, there is more than one perpetrator and I plan on presenting the many different options. Although there are many people that could be held accountable for the demise of Romeo and Juliet, we will ultimately leave the final decision up to you.
Perpetrator number one is the Apothicary. "put this in any liquid thing you will, and drink it off; and if you had the streangth of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight" is what the Apothicary said befor handing Romeo the poison that would be the death of him. Now, the poison is what officialy killed Romeo and because of Romeo's death, Juliet commited suicide, howeverthere are reasons that Romeo
Perpetrator number four is the holy man himself, Friar Lawrence. He is the one that gave Juliet the sleeping concoction which caused the havoc ahead that you allready know about. But where did he get the concoction from and why did he have to give it to Juliet in the first place? There are actualy more then a few reasons that the Friar felt obligated to plot a plan and give Juliet the potion to drink, which brings me to the next possibility.
Perpetrator number two is Balthasar, one of Romeo's own Montagues. Balthasar diliverd the news od Juliets "death" to Romeo in Mantua, resulting in Romeo's purchase of the drugs from the Apothicary to kill himself. Therefore, essentially it is Balthasars fault for the death of both Romeo and Juliet but there is still more behind the story so maybe Balthasar
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