Friar Lawrence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

With a flicker of hope that the marriage will work and end the feud, Friar Lawrence remarks that, "this alliance may so happy prove to turn [their] households' rancor to pure love" (II iv 91-92). The blame can be placed on Friar Lawrence because he cares too much for Romeo and Juliet and eventually takes an extreme and risky approach to facilitate their union.

Secondly, Friar Lawrence’s intentions are always for the benefit of others. He helps his fellow citizens when they are in despair, such as when Romeo arrives at the friar’s cell crying himself to death. The friar responds, “Thou shalt live, till we can find a time to blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back” (3, 3, 150-152). Here, Friar Lawrence acts as a mentor to Romeo, and uplifts his spirits by guiding him through the difficult times of banishment. Friar tells Romeo what he wants to hear because he understands Romeo’s boundless love for Juliet, and what may happen as the consequence of forbidden love. Moreover, Friar Lawrence has noble intentions that give himself no personal gain. When he agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet, he says, “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love” (2, 3, 90-92). Friar decides to marry the young lovers not only to help his friends, but because he believes it will end the long bitter feud of Verona. He only cares about the wellbeing of the city and the safety of the opposing families. Lastly, Friar Lawrence always assists his fellow citizens in their time of desperation. When

Unfortunately, the Friar’s plan to reunite the young couple does not work out as it was intended. If Friar Lawrence had correctly communicated with Romeo regarding his plan, then it is possible that Romeo would have known that Juliet was not truly dead from the potion. However, again a peaceful ending was never in store for Romeo and Juliet’s forbidden love. While Friar Lawrence peacefully tries to stop the ongoing hatred between the Montagues and the Capulets, the fiery Tybalt is determined to drive the feud to bloody battles and violence in the name of honor. Tybalt, whilst drawing his sword to fight Benvolio declares, “What, drawn and talk of peace?

in order to unite the families; as in Act 2, Scene 6, when he marries

Afterwards he kills Tybalt he goes to Friar Lawrence to here his punishment of banishment. Romeo doesn’t know what to do and is laying on the floor crying his eyes out and almost killed himself. Friar Lawrence tells Romeo, “ Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her/ But look thou stay not till the watch be set,/ For then thou canst not pass to Mantua,/ Where thou shalt live till we can find a time/ To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,/ Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back/ with twenty hundred thousand times more joy”(3.3.147-153).

There are many characters in the play of Romeo and Juliet that have important roles and unique characteristics. One of these characters is Friar Lawrence, a Franciscan monk who is an expert in plants and medicines. While the Friar does not appear in all parts of the play, he acts as an advisor to Romeo and Juliet and gets them married. Being an honest, trustworthy, and loving friend, Friar Lawrence helps keep Romeo and Juliet together while maintaining his character and not acting dual-sided or having a second nature. Throughout the later parts of the play, Friar Lawrence’s characterization remains consistent as he guides the two lovers through their troubles and eventually ends the family feud between the Capulets and the Montagues.

As happens with most people when they carry a load that is too much for them to bear, Friar Lawrence starts to break emotionally. His light hearted spirit disappeared after a bloody battle between Romeo, Tybalt, and Mercutio, resulting in two murders. Romeo wallows in the floor, moaning about his punishment, banishment, and the Friar has obviously had enough, for he says, “O deadly sin, O rude unthankfulness! Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind prince, taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law and turned that black word ‘death’ to ‘banishment.’ This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.” (Act III.iii.25-30) The kind spirit in Friar Lawrence has been worn out by the stupidity of Romeo and it is easily noticeable due to the way that the friar speaks in attempt to get Romeo to pick himself up off of the floor. “Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art. Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote the unreasonable fury of a beast. Unseemingly woman in a seeming man.” (Act III.iii.118-121) In his

First, Friar Lawrence knows the danger of wedding together a Capulet and a Montague without the consent of either of their families. Despite the risk, Friar Lawrence is loyal to his friend Romeo, who believes he has found ‘the one’ and wishes to marry her the same day “O, she knew well Thy love did read by rote and could not spell/But come, young waverer, come, go with me/In one respect I'll thy assistant be, For this alliance may so happy prove marriage To turn your households' rancor to pure love.” (2,3,94). Secondly, Loyalty is not only displayed by Friar Lawrence, it is also returned to him when Friar John helps Friar Lawrence on a risky mission to get a message to Romeo, who was banished from the town of Verona. For instance, Friar John was to invite Romeo back to town so that Romeo and Juliet are able to elope after the fake death of Juliet “This same should be the voice of Friar John. Welcome from Mantua! What says Romeo? Or if his mind be writ, give me his letter” (5,2,2). Lastly, Juliet, just like all the other citizens of the Verona, look to the church committee for help in tough times. In fact, Friar Lawrence helps Juliet out of committing suicide by finding a way to get Romeo and Juliet together as he creates a deceiving plan after Juliet goes begging to him for help “Take

“For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo”, was said in the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. This classic Shakespearean tragedy would not live up to its name, if Friar Lawrence had not caused the deaths of these two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. He had created the secret plans and gave most of the advice in the play, he did not check if the plans worked and he was worried about getting caught throughout the play after helping either Romeo or Juliet. This proves that Friar Lawrence is the cause for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

In act two scene six in the cell of Friar Lawrence, Romeo and the Friar are waiting for Juliet and her nurse to arrive to marry Romeo and Juliet. While waiting for Juliet, the Friar tells Romeo, "So smile the heavens upon this holy act, That after hours with sorrow chide us not!" As the Friar says this he was not only blessing Romeo and Juliet's marriage, but in a way he jinx the marriage. The Friar agreeing to marry them decided the future of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence chose to help Romeo and Juliet which was his own personal choice. Romeo and Juliet were very rushed which has affected their future

Many people read tragedies throughout their lifetime, and they wonder why this awful tragedy has occurred. Often times, a character causes this unfortunate demise. William Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet tells of a tragedy between two lovers, where the two star-crossed lovers die in the end. Readers and analysts have pondered the thought of who did it. Friar Lawrence is an obvious reason for the unfortunate demise of Romeo and Juliet because he marries the two star-crossed lovers, helps Juliet escape the marriage to Paris, and fails to send Romeo a sign that Juliet faked her death.

“To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on” (Dave Pelzer). In Act Three, Scene Three of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence, a holy man and a father figure to Romeo, sees Romeo in a distraught mood. In this monologue, he shames Romeo for wanting his end even with luck on his side, as well as outlining a plan to deal with Romeo’s banishment.

At the beginning of his monologue, Friar Lawrence attempts to bring Romeo out of his distraught state by aiming harsh, cruel insults at him. Friar Lawrence exclaims,

It all begins with Tybalt and Mercutio both of these men have some beef with each other because they are both hot heads. Tybalt and Mercutio pull out their swords and start fighting in the middle of town but then it ends up that Tybalt stabs Mercutio and kills him. After this event Romeo finds Tybalt and kills him thinking that it will solve the problem of Mercutio being killed but only makes matters worse for Romeo. This leads to Romeo thinking that if he kills himself he will feel better and rather have death than be without Juliet. Friar lawrence then says “life is the union of soul in body through the miracle of birth, but you would throw all that away” (177) in other words Friar lawrence is saying that God gave you this life and you would throw it

When speaking to Juliet’s parents about trials, the Friar talks of sadness and illustrates that there can still be good times in the midst of trials. He states, “For though some nature bids us all lament, Yet nature’s tears are reason’s merriment.” Merriment means the state or quality of being lighthearted and having fun, but it is contrasted by lament, which is a passionate expression of grief or sorrow. Nature is also an expression used in this passage meaning life on earth, so the passage can be restated as “Sometimes life on earth can be sorrowful, but life sadnesses can still have their happy moments.” This creates a sort of melancholy mood from Friar Lawrence and shows that Shakespeare was trying to show us as readers how we can feel joy and sorrow simultaneously . Lament in this passage represents the sorrow Juliet is facing after Romeo gets exiled, “Come, gentle