Romeo And Juliet Monologue Essay

In the beginning of the story, the Montagues and Capulets break out fighting in the middle of the street and they are told to stop their fighting or the punishment will be death. Soon after the fight, Capulet

In this quote Friar Laurence is telling Juliet to take the vial and to drink it when she goes to bed. This fluid (while going through her veins) will make her cold and drowsy and make it appear as if she does not have a pulse. However, her blood will continue moving naturally and will not stop. If the Friar had not given her the vial, Romeo would not have heard the news that she was dead and therefore would not have killed himself in Capulet’s tomb. Another basis of accusing Friar Laurence of the deaths of the two, is the fact that Romeo did not receive the information about the plan. The Friar tells Juliet, “In this resolve. I’ll send a friar with speed/To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord” (IV.i.1123-124). The Friar is telling Juliet that he will send a friar to Mantua with a letter, saying their plan. He should have sent the letter personally and not relied on another friar to deliver such an urgent and important message. Since the entire plan was his idea he should have followed through with it, making sure the information was

Either way, their love was bound to end in a tragic love story. Romeo and Juliet never seemed to be at the right place at the right time. Tybalt didn’t know Romeo and Juliet were married, so he tried to kill Romeo for trying to stop the fight between him and Mercutio. After Romeo’s banishment, Lord Capulet pushed up Juliet’s wedding so she could be married to Paris. Juliet was so upset that her true love had been banished, she considered of ending her life because she could never be with him again. Friar Lawrence said, “take this vial, mix its contents with liquor and drink that night with no one in your room. When they come in to wake you on Thursday morning for the wedding, your body will be lifeless. You will be in a deathlike state for forty - two hours. When your family takes you to the Capulet tomb Romeo will be there to take Mantua. You will have to remain brave and not become scared. Then you will be able to live happily ever after with your true love Romeo.” Friar explained to Juliet how her and Romeo could be together without anyone knowing. All of the secrets between them lead their fates. They never told their parents what they had done, and it ended lives in a heartbreaking mess.

Romeo and Juliet deceive others due to the poor guidance they receive about their situation. They resort to deceit as a resolution for their desperate situations. Friar Laurence performs their secret marriage as he believes that this alliance could ‘…Turn [their] household’s rancour to pure love’. Juliet is later forced to marry Paris and asks the Nurse for assistance. The Nurse replies that Juliet is ‘…better in this second match’. The Nurse helped Juliet to marry Romeo but as the situation becomes tricky, she betrays Juliet and encourages her to marry Paris; she provides poor guidance in doing so. This poor advice convinces Juliet to consider a plan involving a ‘desperate… execution’. This desperate execution is provided to Juliet by Friar Laurence who provides Juliet with a potion that puts her in a sleep like death. The Friar

Juliet wanted to get out of an arranged marriage with Paris so badly, she wanted to kill herself. She was also distraught because Romeo was banned from Verona, and she can’t see him. Friar Lawrence helped her plan to fake her death, he gave her a potion to make her fall asleep for forty-two hours. “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, When presently through all thy vein shall run a cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse shall keep his native progress, but surcease; no warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest…”(Shakespeare 818). This quote helps show that Friar was helping Juliet.

Juliet chooses to fake her, and one of Romeo’s men catch word of it and deliver the news to Romeo. As Romeo races back to Verona, Friar John was on his way to deliver the truth to Romeo but couldn’t make it to him in time. Romeo breaks into the Capulet tomb to see Juliet for himself. When he does see that Juliet is “dead” he does not choose to live any longer and decides to end his life by drinking a poison. When Juliet awakes and sees Romeo dead next to her she cries and tries to drink from the bottle the poison was in so she could die as well since there was nothing left in the bottle she decided to grab Romeo’s dagger and stab herself, and so she

I am heartbroken over the deaths of my master and friend, Romeo, Juliet, who brought Romeo great happiness, and county Paris, who I knew to be a very honorable man. I hope that this court session will bring justice for Romeo, Juliet, and Paris. To help bring this justice, I will truthfully tell you all that I know.

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

“...Take thou vial, being then in bed, / and this distilled liquor drink thou off; / when presently through all thy veins shall run/ a cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse/ shall keep his native progress...” (Act 4, lines 95-99) This means the Friar has a plan to give Juliet a potion to make her sleep so deep that she will appear dead and will be put into the tomb and Romeo will be there when she awakens. Why is Friar Lawrence trying so hard to cover up this marriage when he did this marriage to try and make the feud between these two families stop feuding? This seems to be counterproductive and doesn’t make sense. They go through with the plan and then Juliet says this. “…Romeo, I drink to thee.” (Act 4, lines 59-60) She says this as she drinks the potion and falls asleep on her bed. The nurse finds her at first thinking that she is only sleeping but then touches Juliet to realize her skin is cold. The nurse calls Juliet’s parents and they also believe she is dead. The Capulets arrange a funeral and have her laid in the tomb. Romeo hears that she is dead and never gets the message that it was only a plan. He buys a poison and drinks it in Juliet’s tomb and kills himself in her tomb. Juliet sees him and stabs herself in the heart killing her.

When a clearly disturbed and distressed Juliet approaches Friar Laurence and threatens to kill herself if what he tells her “speak[s] not of remedy” (4.1.68), Friar Laurence immediately offers her a “thing like death” to keep her from marriage (4.1.75). Juliet agrees and Friar Laurence gives her the potion that will make her “appear like death”, giving her family immense pain and overcomplicating his plan to reunite Romeo and Juliet (4.1.105). Friar Laurence’s third mistake was sending Friar John to deliver the letter to Romeo and trusting Romeo to stay in Mantua until he received news from the Friar. Friar Laurence knows that Romeo is emotional and earlier admitted that he “thought thy [Romeo’s] disposition better tempered”

He is the adviser to both Romeo and Juliet as he is their last resort of guidance. Friar Lawrence assists in the wedding between the lovers in hope that it will break the feud. When Romeo is banished and sent to Mantua, the Friar makes a plan to save Juliet from being wed to Paris. Though the plan is well-meaning, there are consequential flaws. He trusts Juliet- an unstable fourteen year old- to take a potion which will help her feign her death. Friar Lawrence shows an absence of proper sense and responsibility by saying, “If… thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself...take thou this vial… no warmth, no breath shall testify the livest.” In the tomb scene, Friar Lawrence quickly flee the room and abandons Juliet when the need for help is imperative. “Stay not to question, for the watch is coming; come, go, good Juliet, I dare no longer stay.” Friar Lawrence’s ill-planned actions and self concern affects the death of lovers Romeo and

Friar Laurence had the greatest influence on Romeo and Juliet. The day after they met, the Friar married the couple, without parental consent. In this time period, parental consent was expected; the groom must ask the bride’s father’s permission. The Friar hopes to end the feud between the Capulets and Montagues by ignoring this rule and marrying the couple anyway. His plan of marriage fails at ending the feud and forces the Friar to devise more sneaky plans to hide his mistake. The issue is further complicated when Juliet is to be married to Paris promptly. The Friar’s very complex plan ensured that Juliet could not be married to Paris and that she could be together with Romeo. Juliet is the take a sleeping potion that makes her appear dead for fourty-two house/ The most important part of the plan is that Romeo, who is in Mantua, be informed to go to the tomb as Juliet wakes up. Friar Laurence doesn’t contact Romeo himself, so therefore the plan didn’t work. The Friar always intended to end the feud, but everything he did created a larger problem. The Friar’s good intentions lead to tragic results. Fate plays a major role because no matter how hard the Friar tried to make things better, they were destined to end poorly. At the end of the play the Friar realizes that the tragedy appears to be his fault, “I am the greatest, able to do the least, / Yet most suspected, as the time and place” (Rom. 5.3.223-224).

Early Saturday morning watchmen were alerted about a fight happening close to the Capulet tomb between Romeo Montague, and Paris Ferrari. When watchman came to the scene they found the dead bodies of Paris Ferrari lying dead in the tomb along with Romeo found dead beside Juliet. Juliet was found with stab wounds and newly dead. The watchman believe Romeo killed Paris with his sword and then killed himself with poison due to the traces of poison on his lips.

If thou be merciful, Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.” So in the end Paris, Romeo, and Juliet all lay in the tomb- dead.

To prevent Juliet’s suicide, the Friar comes up with a plan. He says to Juliet, “take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilling liquor drink thou off.”(IV.i.95-96) Friar Lawrence wants Juliet to fake her own death and lie in the tomb of Capulet, to get out of marrying Paris. However, this plan backfires when Romeo does not receive the letter that the Friar had sent him and he kills himself over Juliet’s ‘death’, and Juliet in response kills herself over his death. The Friar’s exertion contributes to the plot, because the tragedy at the end of the play would not have occurred without his actions.