"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. ...

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Many instances in the play reveal that the love of Romeo and Juliet would end in death. The prologue introduced the idea of fate and the predestined, tragic future that Romeo and Juliet would have together. ... In Act II, Friar Lawrence says, "These violent delights have violent end, and in triumph die". ... Shakespeare emphasizes the point that if any of these incidences were absent from the play, than the heartbreaking ending that Romeo and Juliet experienced would not have occurred. ... During these occurrences, Romeo was seeking to avoid a tragic outcome, however in the end fate broug...

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"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. ...

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"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. ...

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In the end, Romeo and Juliet's love finds a tragic way to overcome the hate between their families. In Romeo and Juliet, the story revolves around Juliet while she grows up and falls in love, only to have fate keep her from complete happiness. ... Without her loyalty and love, she would not have stuck by Romeo. ... They end up in an argument over the very important issue until Juliet concludes that she will have to kill herself before marrying Paris. ... In Romeo and Juliet, fate is the biggest force opposing Romeo and Juliet. ...

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When Juliet wants to propose to Romeo the Nurse takes the chance and does it for her. ... After Capulet's party, the nurse searches for Romeo because Juliet weeps for him. ... Friar Laurence is another responsible adult in Romeo and Juliet. ... Friar says, "These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder" (II, vi, 9-10). ... Lastly, Friar Laurence helps both Romeo and Juliet refrain from killing themselves. ...

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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: "...

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He concocts a plan to reunite Juliet with Romeo in Mantua. ... Romeo hears only that Juliet is dead. ... Seeing their children's bodies, Capulet and Montague agree to end their long-standing feud and to raise gold statues of their children side-by-side in a newly peaceful Verona. ... Had Romeo restrained himself from killing Tybalt, or waited even one day before killing himself after hearing the news of Juliet's death, matters might have ended happily. Of course, though, had Romeo not had such depths of feeling, the love he shared with Juliet would never have existed in the ...

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