Friar Lawrence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

In the classic play Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence plays a major part. Romeo and Juliet trusted him entirely as he was the priest of their town. They turned to the Friar for help and advice at a few crucial points in the play. Little did these two lovers know that their decision to turn to Friar Laurence for help would eventually lead to their deaths. Friar Laurence was responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he married Romeo and Juliet, he was afraid of committing a sin, and because of his faulty plan for saving Juliet from a marriage to Paris.

Another mistake Friar Laurence made was trusting Friar John to send the letter to Romeo, and not even telling Friar John that the letter explained the situation of Juliet’s “death”. He is very careless, because he only tells Friar John how

William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, tells of two lovers who sacrifice their life for each other throughout their family’s feud. Throughout the play, Shakespeare utilizes the Nurse and Friar Laurence to offer guidance to Romeo and Juliet. The Friar, in particular, is considered “a holy man” because he is a monk and is particularly thought of for his noble counsel (5.3.269). In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence’s advice and plans were designed to bring the two lovers together and end the family feud, but in the end, he should have heeded his own advice which might have prevented the death of Romeo, Juliet, and others.

Friar Laurence’s character flaws greatly impacted the end result of the play. The Friar should be punished for his poorly made decisions throughout Shakespeare’s story. His first mistake was when he initially helped Romeo and Juliet with the aid of the Nurse. Both Romeo and Juliet are children and their parents should be included in every decision made for them. The Friar married Romeo and Juliet in Act 3 of the play. “Till Holy Church incorporate two in one” (3.1.37) The marriage was the start of many issues. Such as Juliet’s inability to wed Paris, being a married lady. This led to Friar’s next choice of giving Juliet the sleeping potion—making her appear dead. “Take this vial, being then in bed,” (4.1.93) Giving Juliet the poison was the reason why so many characters had died in the end of Act 5 of the play. Paris had died fighting Romeo because he thought he was attempting to steal Juliet’s “dead” body. Romeo, ignorant of the fact that Juliet was not dead, killed himself. Juliet committed suicide because of her fiancé lying next to her lifeless. The poison given by Friar

Friar is seen by the town as a man of God. However, the Friar quickly shows his egotistical tendencies. Friar at first did not want to marry Romeo and Juliet but, once he realises he would go up the social ladder his egotistical tendencies got the better of him. The Friar wants to be esteemed by the town and by marrying Romeo and Juliet and uniting their families he could feed this egotistical desire for recognition; as see in this quote “For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.” (Act,2,3,91-92) These greedy tendencies ultimately lead to the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. The Friar’s lust for glorification did not help his battle against

For instance, when Romeo comes to him and asks him to marry him and Juliet, whom he met the night before, Friar Laurence advises Romeo to Love Moderately. Friar Laurence questions Romeo, "If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine, Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline. And art thou changed? Pronounce this sentence then: Women may fall when there’s no strength in men" (Shakespeare 1330). Friar Laurence wants to make sure Romeo truly does love Juliet, when he knows for sure, he agrees to marry them. Next, when Romeo gets exiled he is upset, he does not know how he can be with Juliet, but with the help of Friar Laurence he is able to calm down. Friar Laurence explains to Romeo, “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” (Shakespeare 1366). Friar Laurence tries to tell Romeo that he could be dead now, but Romeo says there is no life without Juliet. Furthermore, when Romeo and Juliet are separated Friar Laurence devises a plan for them to be together. Friar Laurence says to Juliet, “If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay

The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a timeless story about two ill-fated lovers who are separated by their rivaling families. The families unwavering hatred of each other along with a faulty plan to bring them together eventually cost them both their lives. However, most of this fault can be put on one person. That person is Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence's exploits to join these two lovers and their families eventually end with the two together but dead. Some of these attempts include agreeing to marry the two in secret and devising the faulty plan of Juliet faking her death. If not for Friar Laurence’s mistakes when trying to join the two lovers they would not have ended up dead in a double suicide. The devastating deaths of Romeo and Juliet show an aspect of human characteristics: your actions and their outcomes are greatly influenced by the actions of others.

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness” (Desmond Tutu, activist). In Act Three, Scene Three of William Shakespeare’s poignant play Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence witnesses the newly exiled Romeo on the brink of killing himself. The young Montague feels like he is trapped in a bleak situation and wishes to take what he believes is the only way out. In the monologue, the friar attempts to dissuade Romeo from taking his own life.

To begin with, Friar Laurence is the one who caused all those actions because he married them. In Document C, “I’ll thy assistant be”, the author stated “I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it, On Thursday next be married to this country.” “To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.” By Friar Laurence doing that he caused a problem because Juliet father wanted her to marry Paris. Friar wasn’t supposed to

One major event in Romeo and Juliet is when they get married in secret and look to Friar Laurence to help them. This secret wedding is just the tip of the iceberg for what Friar laurence has gotten himself into with these star crossed lovers. When Friar laurence agrees to marry them in secret, it opens the door to endless amounts of drama in the following days that will unfold because of him. Friar laurence simply thinks by doing this small deceptive act toward their families will do greater good by them by ending the feud between the two families.  In Act II scene VI Friar laurence says, “These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire

Friar Lawrence is a character that has a hand in most events in his story. He is a character in Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare. I will be explaining what events the Friar affects by making decisions based on emotion. The Friar did not ask or tell anyone about him marrying Romeo and Juliet.

The biggest flaws Friar Laurence had in the play was his hypocrisy and how he underestimated two suicidal teenagers which led to most of the problems Romeo and Juliet faced. In many scenes, the Friar keeps telling the children to be careful and not rush into romantic situations so quickly. After he says that, he immediately goes and marries the both of them. This was the first mistake that led to many problems. After Juliet finds out Romeo has been banished to Mantua, she runs to the Friar and says she is going to kill herself. Luckily, the Friar stops her and devises a plan to hopefully bring her and Romeo together safely forever. Shakespeare writes,

One more of Friar Laurence well intended actions that had a big part in Romeo and Juliet death is the note that Friar was supposed to send but it never made it to Romeo. After Friar and Juliet made the plan Friar told Juliet that he will send Romeo a letter telling him when and where to find her after they take her to the tomb (4.2.115-118). Friar Laurence brother was supposed to deliver the letter to Mantua but got stopped because they thought he had a disease and they didn’t want him to infect the town. “I could not send it – here it is again- Nor the messenger to bring it thee, so fearful were they of infection” (5.2.14-16).With the letter not being sent and Romeo not knowing anything about the plan his servant told him that Juliet was actually

One of the biggest influences on someone doesn 't even have to be related to them. This is the case for Romeo and Juliet, who have Friar Laurence and Nurse to influence them greatly. At first Friar is seen as the good guy in this play, but upon further inspection, it 's easily seen that he is one of the bad guys. He is Romeo’s confidant throughout the story, so he ends up giving the most advice. Friar Laurence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet in secret, in hopes of turning the families feud into love, even though he didn 't think it was a good idea at first. Within the first speech Friar gave, he states that he will proceed recklessly (Boyce 512). This only shows that he is worried about executing his ideas, which ends up throwing the lovers towards their deaths. Not only that, but Friar Laurence came up with the idea to have Juliet fake her own death, and advises her to go against her parents wishes to marry Paris because he didn 't want to tell them she was already married to Romeo. Thus providing proof that the impact he has on Romeo and Juliet 's decisions is great enough to the point where he made Juliet believe her only way out of marrying Paris, was to pretend to kill herself. Furthermore, it also shows how he doesn 't have the best decision making skills and is a character who tries to save himself from punishment. Nurse is another character who acts as

For example, Friar Laurence relies on a delivery of a letter to tell Romeo that Juliet was not dead “Who bear my letter, then, too, Romeo”(V.II.13). This shows that he did not care enough to find someone more reliable to send the message. This also shows that he only depended on one letter to let Romeo know the plan. The friar marries Romeo and Juliet without letting their parents know. “Come, come with me, and we will make a short work;/ 4, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone/ till holy church incorporate two in one”(II.VI.35-37). This shows that the friar did not care about how their parents did not like each other. this also shows that he did not think about how this would affect them and everybody else in the town. The Friars secretly gives Juliet a sleeping potion so she doesn't have to get married. “ A thing like death to chide away this shame,/ that cop’st with death himself to scape from it, / And, if thou dar’st, I'll give the remedy”(IV.I 75-78). This shows that he was hiding this from the outside world. This also shows that the fryer could be hiding more illegal things from the town. All in all Friar Lawrence came up with risky plans and didn't think of the consequences that could come along with the