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Friar Lawrence In Romeo And Juliet

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Friar Lawrence is the reason for the death of Romeo and Juliet. The reason being very few people know about the forbidden love of Romeo, and Juliet; the Friar being one of which to know. Friar Lawrence is just trying to be helpful; in doing this he manages to mess up their lives even more.

This first situation starts with the pre marriage of the two young loves. Now you are aware of how when someone points something out it makes it extremely obvious, right? In Act 2 the Friar accidentally does this to Romeo by stating “These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey / Is loathsome in his own deliciousness / And in the taste confounds the appetite: / Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; / Too swift arrives as …show more content…

Are you familiar with the feeling something is wrong although you can't put your finger on what. The Friar experiences this in Act 5, when he states “Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood, / The letter was not nice but full of charge / Of dear import, and the neglecting it / May do much danger. Friar John, go hence; / Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight / Unto my cell.” (Act 5 Scene 2 Page 1 Stanza 18) when this is said you can tell he knows that something in his plan is flawed.

One of the last scenes… In the tomb where the two deceased lovers now lie, the Friar states to Lord Capulet, “And with wild looks bid me devise some mean / To rid her from this second marriage, / Or in my cell there would she kill herself. / Then gave I her, so tutored by my art, / A sleeping potion, which so took effect / As I intended, for it wrought on her / The form of death.” (Act 5 Scene 3 Page 11) In other words “I gave her a sleeping potion, Romeo took it the wrong way and now they both lie deceased”. The evidence is there to prove Friar Lawrence is responsible for the confusion and death of the

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