Essay on Romeo and Juliet's Change of Fate

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

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

Beside Lord Capulet and Romeo, Friar Lawrence is also directly responsible for Juliet’s death. He makes not only one, but three major mistakes that all results in death of Juliet. To begin with he gives a potion to Juliet. At this time, Friar Lawrence is the only person that Juliet will fully trust, however, Friar Lawrence shows his irresponsibility by saying, “If…thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself…take thou this vial” (). In this circumstance, Friar’s plan is very risky for unstable Juliet. He decides to take risk rather than thinks for a better plan. Juliet’s fake death does fools all the people, however, Juliet will never lie on the monument if Friar Lawrence does not give Juliet the potion, and Juliet will not die at last. Next mistake that Friar Lawrence makes is he let Friar John to send the letter, who does not know how important the letter is. It is inexcusable to let someone else to do this urgent thing. Friar John shows his incompetence when he says “I could not send it, here it is again” (). The letter is one of the most crucial symbol in the play. To a certain extent, Friar John fails send the letter to Romeo foreshadow the play will have a tragedy ending. If Friar Lawrence delivers the letter by himself, the plan may proceed perfectly. The quotation

No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest… In the meantime, against thou shalt awake, shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, and hither shall he come, and he and I will watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.” We can immediately deduce that this plan lacks the three fundamental bases of a successful plan. It does have a solid base but it seems unrealistically hard to carry out; it is extremely time sensitive and has no leeway for errors. However, Lawrence’s plan is also at fault in the way that it has no backup plan; if something were to go amiss, then what would Romeo and Juliet do? We see this development as Friar John fails to deliver Romeo Lawrence’s letter due to him getting quarantined on his quest to deliver it to Romeo. Lawrence was unable to think of a secondary plan to recoup the losses of Friar John’s failure, thus leading to the death of the young couple.

As Juliet awakes from her planned long sleep, she asks Friar Lawrence “where is my Romeo?” He tells her he “lies dead.” At this point, Friar Lawrence would have been very worried about his actions and he tries to cover up the lies to fix what happened. He asks Juliet to “come, I’ll dispose of thee, among a sisterhood of holy Nuns.” Friar Lawrence is afraid of his actions and of being exposed as a failure and liar. Proposing this to Juliet would have been the

Although this wasn’t both Romeo and Juliet, he still could have saved Juliet. In the book on lines 103-1-4, it states “Come out of the tomb a greater power has ruined our plan.” This is a metaphor relating death to a power. It means since Romeo is dead our plan to go to Muntau has been ruined. Another evidence comes from lines 170-172, it states “The watch is coming, let's go juliet, i don't dare stay any longer.” This is explaining how he dont want to stay any longer because he don't want to be captured. The last evidence from this comes from lines 172. It states “Go get out of here, i not going anywhere. (Friar Lawrence runs offstage).” Although this isn't said by the Friar, it explains how he runs off of stage to keep from getting captured. He could have stayed and kept Juliet from killing

the friar is saying that he wrote to Romeo but his letter was never sent. He had planned on Romeo receiving the letter and hadn’t thought of a backup plan. He had decided that after he went to get Juliet,he would write to Romeo again. Because he hadn’t been able to send the letter to Romeo, Romeo killed himself in the tomb with Juliet.

Had he done so, he could have informed Romeo that Juliet was alive, thus he could have prevented Romeo's death. Also, Friar Lawrence did not physically stop Juliet's suicide; he simply said "Come, come away... I'll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of nuns"(V. iii. 154-157), and ran away. Had he not been so hasty, he could have realized that the consequences of being caught trespassing are less punitive than those of abandoning Juliet. In fact, Friar Lawrence knew that if he abandoned Juliet, she likely would have committed suicide, because she threatened to so in the past "...And with this knife I'll help it presently"(IV. i. 54). Furthermore, he planned on solving the family feud with the marriage "...To turn your household's rancour to pure love"(II. iii. 92), but he did not make any arrangements to inform Montague and Capulet that he married Romeo and Juliet; he simply disappeared. Had he explained the situation to Montague and Capulet, at any time before the catastrophe, they would have trusted the friar, a holy man who everyone respected, and they would have hopefully dissolved their family feud. They did so in the end after the friar was forced to explain (V. iii). In brief, Friar Lawrence should have been more proactive, and he should have stepped in at the right time.

In conclusion, the holy Friar Lawrence is more unreliable and profane than holy and saintlike. By giving most of the advice and plans, he caused the conflicts, and not ensuring his plans are followed accordingly, created more problems and the fact that the Friar was very skeptical made him cause the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. But if it wasn’t for his mistakes which caused the deaths, the play would not be as tragic and successful as Shakespeare planned it to

Friar Laurence simply influenced Romeo’s decision, it was ultimately Romeo and Juliet's decision to carry on with the marriage. In addition, Friar Laurence was put under immense pressure to marry the two lovers to promote peace or to stop the marriage and not be part of such a sinful act. Friar Laurence's inability to execute the most crucial aspect of the plan puts him at fault for the death. After being banished from Verona, wedding plans for Paris and Juliet being to start. Juliet has forsaken her love to Romeo, and decides that her marriage will be done with only one person, which is Romeo. The Friar promises Juliet that he will reunite them and they can live happily by telling Juliet “Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, and hither shall hem come; and he and I shall watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee to Mantua” (4.1.114-117). The Friar begins to tell Juliet that his plan is foolproof, and it will help them escape safely into Mantua where they can live happily ever after. As the play continues on into act 5, Friar Laurence begins to send out his letter to Romeo. However, Friar John comes back to Verona and tells Friar Laurence “I could not send it—here it is again, nor get a messenger to bring it thee” (5.2.14-16). Friar Laurence is most to blame because he is unable to perform the most vital part of the plan. If Friar Laurence knew that the letter

In the Shakespeare’s passage “Romeo and Juliet” the lovers died. But no one is aware of the person that caused both of their deaths. It’s clear that Friar Lawrence has caused the death. Friar Laurence wasn’t able to deliver the message. Lawrence is the character responsible because he didn’t deliver the message that Juliet wasn’t dead.

Juliet and Friar lawrence hatch an “ingenious plan” to get juliet out of marrying Paris. Friar Lawrence claims to have a potion that will make Juliet appear dead and allow her to escape the eyes of the public, to live a peaceful life with Romeo. Without considering the consequences, Friar Lawrence gives

Friar Lawrence trusted someone else with a very important letter to deliver to Romeo. Also if the letter

Friar didn’t tell Romeo and when Romeo found out that Juliet was “dead” he killed himself. “Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous In this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord.” This quote shows that Friar Lawrence went back on his word when he told Juliet that he would send a friar to tell Romeo the plans and didn’t. This quote is towards the end of Juliet and Friars conversation it is well worded that he promises he will send someone to tell Romeo of the plans so he doesn’t worry. This is more shocking evidence that leads us to believe it was Friars fault for not only Romeo & Juliets death but many others.

But in the end he failed them, and as a result failed to keep them from dying. When Romeo was banished he came to Friar Lawrence asking for advice on what to do. “Father, what news? What is the Prince’s doom? What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand That I yet know not?” (3. 3. 1-13) Friar Lawrence only tells him that he can spend the night with Juliet and that he must leave in the morning. He helps Romeo, but only to a certain extent. But then Juliet confides in him, when the situation is even more dire than the last. “O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk Where serpents are. Chain me with roaring bears, Or hide me nightly in a charnel house, O’ercovered Quite with dead men’s rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow skulls. Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his.....” (4. 1. 78-126) In this exchange between Juliet and Friar Lawrence, the Friar gives Juliet a potion that makes it appear as if she is dead. Then he says that he will send a letter to Romeo telling him about their plan and then he will come retrieve her from the vault. But this letter never reaches Romeo because Friar Lawrence trusts Friar John to get the letter to Romeo. But the letter fails to reach Romeo because of some complications with Friar John, and Romeo rushes to Juliet’s grave