Romeo and Juliet

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The most famous and powerful tragedy ever written by William Shakespeare is
Romeo and Juliet. When two families hate each other, the tale begins. A group of
masked Montagues, of which Romeo was a member, decided to go to the Capulet’s
party. The moment he arrived, he fell madly in love with Juliet. The lovers married
the next day with the help of Friar Laurence, but an attempt to avoid a street battle
resulted in the death of Juliet's own cousin, Tybalt, for which Romeo is exiled.
Juliet decides to join Friar Laurence's plot and fakes her own death in order to be
reunited with Romeo. Romeo was clueless about her plan, and when he discovered
about her death, he commits suicide in her tomb. When Juliet wakes up, she finds
Romeo's body beside her. She killed herself because she was too upset over her
lover's death.
   First of all, I assume Tybalt is guilty because he provoked Romeo into a fight
because he saw him at the Capulet’s party after becoming furious. Tybalt threatens
him to death, but instead, he murders Mercutio. Since he got into another war with
Montague, Romeo was banished. 
   Second of all, since he was the one who decided to marry them in the first place,
I believe Friar Laurence should be blamed for the lover's death. Knowing Romeo's
past love and Juliet's circumstance, he should not have married them, but he did.
After the engagement, Romeo was exiled, and Friar Laurence conceived a plan to
convince Juliet to fake her death, telling her that Romeo would discover the story.
Juliet believed him, and he did as he said, but Romeo was uninformed of their
plan, and as a result, he killed himself in her tomb. 
   All in all, the lovers would still be alive if Tybalt could realize that Romeo was
not a threat to the Capulets and could control his feelings, and if Friar Laurence
had been more vigilant and thought about his plan better. Friar Laurence, I believe,
is more responsible for Romeo and Juliet's deaths because he married them and
failed to devise a successful strategy. Despite the fact that he killed some young
children, he ended a war and taught us a valuable lesson: think before you act.