William Shakespeare 's Romeo And Juliet

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

Romeo kept on forcing the idea upon him, so he marries them hoping that their marriage would end the Capulet and Montague feud, even though he did not ask for the parents’ consent. He displays his hope when he says, “For this alliance may so happy prove / to turn your household’s rancor to pure love”(Act I, Scene 4, Lines 91-92). Friar Laurence kept Romeo and Juliet’s relationship secretive, making the situation worsen. Later on, the Friar shows that he has regrets about the marriage. The Friar feels that, “Violent delights have violent ends / And their triumph die… too swift arrives as tardy as too slow” (Act II, scene 6, Lines 9-15). The Friar senses that the wedding is happening too quickly and doubts his decision. He had the potential to prevent the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, but his decisions led Romeo and Juliet to do reckless actions under his ideas. Friar Laurence’s thoughtless decisions led to the deaths of Romeo and

The Friar should have known that they were just kids and they were rushing into things. In Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence says, “These violent delights have violent ends. Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, and in the taste confounds the appetite”- Shakespeare. Also Friar knew that just a couple days before Romeo had his eyes set on Rosaline. The Friar knew that this was too fast, but he married them anyway. The Friar married Romeo and Juliet despite their parent wishes. The only reason the Friar married the two children was because he thought the feud between the two families would end. However, this did not go as planned. The Friar needed to find a way out of this chaos. This goes to show Friar Lawrence is the most to blame and put not only his life on the line, but also the lives of Romeo and Juliet.

Even though numerous characters in the play contributed to the death of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence’s irresponsibility and lack of recognition makes him most to blame. To begin, Romeo proposes the idea about marring Juliet, a member of the Capulet Family by telling Friar Laurence “Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set on the fair daughter of rich Capulet (2.3.57-58). Romeo has completely forgotten about Rosaline, and now has focused his love onto Juliet. The Friar agrees with Romeo. Friar Laurence's decision is irresponsible because he agrees with the idea of members of opposite noble families being married. By marrying Romeo and Juliet, Friar is acting like Lord

Throughout the entire play, Friar Laurence helps keep Romeo and Juliet together and their relationship a secret, encouraging their unrealistic hopes, and therefore is to blame for their deaths. Friar Laurence knows both families well, and their hate for each other, yet he misleads Romeo and Juliet to believe that their love can end their family's rivalry.

One of Friar Laurence’s major dramatic purposes in Romeo and Juliet is being a peacemaker. “For this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households rancor to pure love (2.3.90-92).” Friar Laurence makes this statement thinking that if he married Romeo and Juliet, there would be peace between their families. However, the Friar already knew that Romeo and Juliet are not really in love with each other, but merely charmed by each other’s lust. “So smile the heavens upon this holy act that after hours with sorrow chide us not (2.6.1-2)!” Since Friar Laurence is known in Verona as being a holy man, he takes this marriage proposal as being a message sent from the heavens, and hopes that nothing unfortunate happens later. Soon after the marriage, Friar Laurence takes into consideration that the marriage he officiated between Romeo and Juliet was his own foolish idea and not a message sent from the

One of the reason Friar Laurence was the blame for Romeo and Juliet death is because friar Laurence knew marrying them was a risk to them and him, and it was also a bad Idea because not too long ago Romeo was just in love with Rosaline. And friar thinks because they are both from the too fueling families that Romeo and Juliet’s marriage may bring the families together. And that’s mentioned in the play (Act2, Scene1) “But come young waverer, come go with me. In one respect, I’ll thy assistant be; For this alliance, may so happy prove to turn your households `rancor to pure love.” So basically, he knows that Romeo is young is

In the play, Friar Laurence married two underage kids whose parents didn’t get along. In act two scene six it states “So smile the heavens upon this holy act…., These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kissed, consume.”. He married the young foes knowing that they were still irresponsible and couldn’t even take care of themselves yet. Friar Laurence knew what he was doing was wrong and that it would end up in consequences, because the two families of these children didn’t get along and that they wouldn’t approve of that marriage, because later Sir Capulet told Juliet that she would have to marry Sir Paris while she was already married to Romeo but without him knowing or else he would disown her. This detail is significant because if they had advised their families then that might have stopped the feud between their families. In the play, Juliet informed Friar Laurence what Sir Capulet had demanded. In act four scene one it states “Tell me not, Friar, that thou hearst of this, Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it… God joined my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands.….And, if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy.” Juliet had gone and asked for Friar Laurence for help and he went and gave her poison so that she would go seem dead for 48 hours. First, there were so many things that went wrong with that plan. In the play Friar Laurence said that he would inform Romeo

Romeo & Juliet Essay Love can end in happiness or in woe ~ Anonymous. Who caused the death of Romeo and Juliet? The cause of Romeo and Juliet’s death was definitely Friar Laurence he came off as a very sneaky person in this story. With that said here are a few reasons why Friar Laurence caused the death of the star-crossed lovers: He married Romeo and Juliet in secret, He gave Juliet a potion to make her appear dead, and Friar Laurence plan for Romeo and Juliet did not work out well.

Friar Laurence is careless, his actions of carelessness really showed when the letter was never given to Romeo. This letter was to inform him that Juliet was not actually dead, she just appeared it. Romeo never getting the letters was a huge concern for Juliet. He was lazy and had Friar John go deliver the letters to Romeo back in Mantua,

First, Friar Laurence is the Father and Romeo’s mentor. He first agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet. His intentions were righteous but this started the whole chaos. Romeo and Juliet had it too easy. If the Father did not agree in marring her and Romeo they would find it hard in being together without being married. Therefore they would at some point tried to find the most possible

Before the plan was made to fake Juliet’s death, the Friar did things which brought about the circumstances that to the lovers’ deaths. He encouraged their relationship and married them in secret which he should not have done (Act II, Scene VI). Friar Laurence should have not allowed them to be together, or, if he felt they were truly in love, he should have told the two’s parents about their relationship. Juliet’s father was open to having Juliet marry whomever she wanted and Romeo’s father wanted him to be happy, so the families could probably try to set aside their differences if they felt the two were really in love (Act I, Scene II, Line 13-34 and Act I, Scene I, Line 146-156). This scenario would also have settled the families’ feud like the Friar wanted to do with Romeo and Juliet’s marriage. If these things were not done and Juliet was going to be forced to marry Paris, the Friar could have helped her escape the marriage another way. He could have helped Juliet leave the city or he could have refused to marry Juliet 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).

(TOPIC SENTENCE) (THESIS III) Friar Laurence affects the outcome of the play with his insufficient choices by (MAJOR A) marrying Romeo and Juliet (MAJOR B) and fleeing Juliet’s tombstone. (REWORDING OF MAJOR A) At the beginning of the storyline, Friar Laurence makes the decision to marry Romeo and Juliet, without thinking of the consequences or problems that would soon come in store for the newly found lovers. (MINOR 1 FOR MA)

William Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet,” takes place in Verona- a city in Italy which is governed by a prince. However, there is also a Friar named Laurence, who is a religious figure that citizens go to for advice and to be married. In the City lives the Capulets and the Montagues who have been quarrelling for generations. Both families have children and one child from each family are the protagonists- Romeo is a member of the Montagues and Juliet is a member of the Capulets. Romeo and Juliet will end up falling for each other. However, they end up dying young because Friar Laurence marries them in private, he gave Juliet a potion which knocked her out which lead to her and Romeo’s suicides, and he trusted Friar John to deliver the