Friar Lawrence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

First, Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet to end the feuding between the families. He says, “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be:/ For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.” (2.3.90-92). Secondly, he organizes a plan for Juliet to take the potion to fake her death. In the plan he also decides to send a message to Romeo explaining their plans but Friar John says “I could not send it – here it is again –/ Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,” (5.2.14-15) to Friar Lawrence so Romeo was never informed of the plan. Lastly, at the end of the play when he finds Juliet and a dead Romeo, he leaves and says “Come go, good Juliet, I dare no longer stay.” (5.3.159). Once both sides are involved, it means Romeo and Juliet must be

The blame lies with Friar Lawrence because he makes faulty plans, he is irresponsible, and he does secretly things especially the plan with Romeo and Juliet.

The potion was able to have Juliet fake her death for forty-two hours and place her into a catatonic state. Juliet took this potion so she could get away with not having to marry Paris. According to act 4 scene 4 and 5, the nurse was the one to find Juliet deceased in her bed and is the one to tell Juliet's parents. When Romeo caught the wind with this tragedy he discovered that he couldn’t live his life without Juliet so he ended up killing himself. Friar Lawrence was to blame for this because the potion wasn’t necessary, Juliet could have stuck up for herself and decide that she didn’t want to marry Paris now. This is the second reason why Friar Lawrence is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and

Friar Lawrence was one of the most important characters in the novel. Even though he was not on the stage for most of the play he greatly contributed to the tragedy that would soon happen at the end of the play. There was basically three major parts that lead to the death of Romeo and Juliet, which Friar Lawrence was involved in all of them. Friar Lawrence played a vital role in the marriage, planning and death of Romeo and Juliet. His attempts to do the right thing were noble, but because of poor planning they would soon lead to the inevitable tragedy.

In the classical romance Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare many were distraught by the two lovers’ suicide. The most to blame for their deaths is Friar Lawrence. He took many risks helping Romeo and Juliet. He knew what he was getting himself into and still helped them. Some say he's a bad person for doing that, others say he was being kind.

The plan was, “...When you’re in bed, take this vial, mix its contents with liquor, and drink. Then a cold sleep-inducing drug will run through your veins, and your pulse will stop.” He goes on saying that Romeo will come and save her by digging her out of the tomb that her parents will put her in. Not only is this a very dangerous plan that could lead to having Juliet getting buried alive; but there are many flaws in this plan. One of the flaws that did end up happening was Romeo not getting the letter about the plan, which led to Romeo thinking that his Juliet is dead, and now he wants to be dead. If Friar Lawrence just came up with a less dangerous plan then the deaths of Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t have

Each character in the play,Romeo and Juliet, does certain things based on what they think and how they feel. Most of the other characters’ actions are based off of love, hate, and wealth. As for Friar Laurence, he has different motivations compared to the other characters. He stands up for peace in Verona between the two rich rival families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Everything he does is mostly centered on creating peace.

Usually, elaborate and complicated plans do not turn out the way that they are supposed to, especially in this scenario. Later in the play, Romeo is banished from Verona for killing Tybalt. Friar Lawrence tries to help the young lovers using a potion, “ a thing like death to chide away this shame, that cop’st with death himself to ‘scape from it...And if thou dearest, I’ll give thee remedy.” (183). This potion would make Juliet appear dead for 42 hours, and then she would arise. Giving an almost deadly potion to a 14-year old does not seem like a responsible measure to take. Friar thinks that when Paris sees Juliet dead, he will stop pursuing Juliet for once and Juliet will stay loyal to Romeo. Friar sends a “letter was not nice but full of charge of dear import, and neglecting it may do much danger.” (219). This letter includes the potion plot and what Friar’s intentions were. Unfortunately, Romeo never receives this letter and never gets to know that Juliet will stay loyal to Romeo,

Friar Lawrence is the most to blame for the events that occur in Romeo and Juliet because he married them. In

In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet Friar Lawrence is the priest. In Romeo and Juliet two teenagers fall in love and cause tragic events to unfold and people die because of the love that these two teenagers have. Friar Lawrence is to blame for the tragedy of 6 deaths for two reasons. He married Romeo and Juliet and then tried to help them avoid consequences of getting married. Friar Lawrence is undoubtedly to blame for the tragic events that unfold in Romeo and Juliet.

“Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor drink thou off” (Shakespeare 4.1.96-97) This quote reveals that Friar gave Juliet the sleeping potion to drink the night before Paris and Juliet were to be married. The plan that he had in mind was for Juliet to drink the sleeping potion that would make her appear dead for forty-two hours, be buried in the Capulet tomb, then be saved and took to Mantua by Romeo when she woke up. However, it is later revealed that Friar John couldn’t bring the important letter Friar Laurence wrote to Romeo that described the plan because he was quarantined inside of a house because town health officials suspected he was infected with the plague. When he heard of this, Friar Laurence was going to write to Romeo again, meanwhile taking Juliet to his cell when she woke up and keeping her there until Romeo arrived. It was too late, since Romeo already heard that Juliet was dead from Balthasar, causing him to already be on his way to Juliet’s grave to kill himself so he could be with her. Friar Laurence allowing Juliet to drink the sleeping potion before he was certain that Romeo knew about the plan was ultimately what caused the death of Romeo and

Friar Lawrence is the most to blame for the events that occur in Romeo and Juliet because he gave Juliet a sleeping potion which lead to a lot of people's death including Romeo and Juliets. When Juliet was seeking advice and confirmation from Friar Lawrence he advised her,

When Juliet went to the Friar to seek a solution, instead of taking more time to find a solution, he felt pressured to help Juliet so she would not commit suicide. He said, ¨ Take thou this vial, being then in bed / And this distilling liquor drink thou off;¨(IV.i.95-96). He gave the poison to her because he wants her family to think that she is dead and they will cancel her marriage with Paris. He should not have done that because if something goes wrong the whole plan would be useless,which actually happens later.

After Juliet woke up, Friar Lawrence told her about Romeo’s death and his plan to take her to a nunnery. When Juliet refused to leave and the watchmen were approaching, Friar Lawrence deserted her. Friar Lawrence did not want to deal with Juliet’s anguish and grief, as well as the problems of being found illegally in a tomb. This shows his total lack of loyalty and commitment to Juliet’s welfare, as well as his fear of having to explain an awkward situation to the authorities. After Friar Lawrence left, a distraught Juliet killed herself. Essentially, by abandoning an emotionally unstable girl wallowing in despair among dead bodies and and discarded knives, Friar Lawrence was instrumental in Juliet’s

While Friar is marrying Romeo and Juliet he tells them this, “Till holy church incorporate two in one.” ( Act 2, Scene 6, Line 37) Because he married them in secret he had to keep this from their parents. If Lord Capulet would have known, he might not have pushed so hard to have Juliet marry Paris. So Romeo and Juliet would still be alive. Also the Friar came up with the potion plan. He made the idea without actually knowing if Romeo received the plan, which was a setup for disaster. And because Romeo didn't know about about the plan he thought that Juliet was actually dead because of what he heard from Balthasar. This caused him to kill himself and Juliet to kill