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Romeo and juliet character analysis
Romeo and juliet character analysis
Romeo's character analysis in Romeo and Juliet
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“Forgiveness is the best revenge” When it comes to Friar Lawrence and the Nurse. Capulet should take responsibility for his actions. Friar Lawrence and the Nurse both helped Romeo and Juliet but should be forgiven, Capulet on the other hand should be held accountable.
Despite the fact that Friar Lawrence helped Romeo and Juliet get married, He should be forgiven. The reason he should be forgiven is because he warned them not to rush things. He told them “those who rush things tend to stumble and fall”. He also had no idea that the letter would get told wrong. Balthazar was sent to tell Romeo that Juliet was going to take a potion so she looks like she is dead. Balthazar told Romeo that she actually was dead. My last reason is that even though
Friar Lawrence is a fallacious mentor. This is seen when he agrees to secretly marry Romeo and Juliet. “Come, come with me, and we will make short work./For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone/Till holy church incorporate two in one.”(2.2.35-37) This was an ill-conceived decision because the families are unaware of this so it will not actually break the tension between the two rival families. This creates dishonesty and unfaithfulness to their families which evidently ends tragically. When Friar Lawrence married Romeo and Juliet he inferred that the feud between the families would end; however, this was not the case because they kept it a secret. “This shall determine that.” (3.1.28) Romeo challenges Tybalt to a fight to the death even though Tybalt is Juliet’s cousin and they are married. This proves that Friar’s plan was faulty and unsuccessful because there is still great conflict between the two rival families. Friar’s unhelpful mentoring is shown when he agrees to secretly marry Romeo and Juliet and when he wrongly infers that the feud between the families would
Friar Lawrence is responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s stronger affections for each other because he married them and therefore binding their love. Friar Lawrence also came up with a risky solution to get Romeo and Juliet together for the rest of their lives without anyone knowing. However, it consisted of faking Juliet’s death and Romeo did not know she was not actually dead, but alive. Friar Lawrence’s messenger did not tell Romeo the plan in time because Romeo had already heard of Juliet’s death and had gone to her tomb to die with her. Friar Lawrence is responsible for the star-crossed lovers’ death because of his miscalculated
Friar Lawrence's good intentions of marrying Romeo and Juliet to create peace with the two families is also to blame for the tragedy. The secret marriage does not help the feud at all it just results in the Friar having to make some risky decisions about the fate of Romeo and Juliet. His plan for Juliet to take the poison and the letters to be sent to Romeo ends up being fatal. If the Friar had not given Juliet the potion then Romeo would never had come back to Verona to kill himself.
Braelen Jarrett 1/22/2018 My thesis statement is that Friar Lawrence is the person to blame for Romeo and Juliet's death. The character that I have chosen is Friar Lawrence. Lawrence was a holy man and a priest. In the classic play of Romeo and Juliet. Lawrence was the adviser in Romeo and Juliet isolation. Romeo came to Lawrence and asked him to marry him to Juliet. Friar Lawrence agreed to marry the two lovers in secret. While Lawrence began to marry the two, he was hoping that it would heal the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. When Romeo was banish for killing Tybalt, he flees to
In Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, Friar Lawrence plays a dominate role in the eventual death of Romeo and Juliet even though he is not on stage for most of the play. There are basically three major parts that lead to the tragedy; the marriage, the plan, and the inevitable deaths in all which Friar Lawrence plays a vital role.Friar Lawrence plays an essential role in the marriage of young Romeo and Juliet. At Romeo’s request Friar Lawrence states, "In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households to pure love" (Act 2 Scene 3.) Friar Lawrence believes that this holy marriage would bring the Capulet family and Montuague family closer together, for he anticipates that the families will stop hating each other and be peaceful. His attempts to make the marriage of Romeo and Juliet are admirable but poorly planned.
I believe that Friar Lawrence, who was a wise, well respected friar, responsible for the marriage of Romeo and Juliet in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, made the correct decision to marry them. It is understandable, that at first, Friar Lawrence expresses his concern about their rapid approach to marriage; stating that Romeo has had a drastic change in heart and Romeo should be careful (2.3.65-68). Although he is on edge about how quickly Romeo had moved on from Rosaline, he ultimately complies with the marriage request and officiates their wedding in hopes of ending the ancient family feud. I think that Friar Lawrence’s complete intention was to help Romeo and Juliet and unite their families. For example, Friar Lawrence states, “So
An act of dishonesty carried out by haste can result in very unlikely consequences to an individual’s life. Firstly, the dishonesty of Friar Lawrence in choosing to marry Romeo and Juliet without the knowledge or permission of their parents, results in undesirable after effects. Secondly, the sudden cessation of support from Juliet’s Nurse, to continue the relationship of Romeo and Juliet causes harm to Juliet’s feelings as a young lover and contributes to their fatality. Finally, Romeo’s haste to marry Juliet to prove his intentions, accounts for a future filled with even more hasty decisions. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the dishonesty of Friar Lawrence and Nurse and the haste of Romeo and Juliet, results in the deaths of the young lovers.
When one looks closely at the story of Romeo and Juliet, one will see that it is a story with many ethical aspects. The first ethical concern was the two feuding families. How moral is it to hate someone only because they have a certain family name? This all come from a time period when people were fairly focused on religion, which teaches us not to hate. I also question this because I think it is ironic that both Romeo and Juliet seem to be fairly religious, since the first person Romeo went to for help was Friar Lawrence, and a few scenes in the play took place in or around the church. I think that this hatred is especially bad in the case of the Capulets and the Montagues, because I was always under the impression that the families had been feuding for so long that no one really knew why they hated each other anymore. This was the beginning of the problems for Romeo and Juliet. They had a moral decision to make. Should they stay true to their families, and deny their love, or should they stay true to their feelings and disgrace their families? In order to resolve this dilemma, Romeo turns to Friar Lawrence, who perhaps could be seen as the most moral character, to begin with. Because he was a holy man, he was the most logical confidant of anyone in the play. People see men of the cloth as reliable and a good source of advice. Of course, Friar Lawrence has every intention of helping the two lovers, also hoping that he could reunite the feuding families. However, unbeknownst to him, everything he will do throughout the play will have an unnerving consequence. No matter what he did to correct what he had done wrong, it only drug him deeper into trouble. Who ever would have thought that by marrying the two young lovers, he would have caused all of this heartache for the families, and really for all of Verona? No one ever considered the fact that two young people wanting to get married would have affected the entire city. Friar Lawrence was only trying to be a good friend and ally, but everything he did just ended up backfiring for him.
The Friar was supposed to be a responsible adult and a man of God. This means that people would have come to him to confess their sins. Romeo and Juliet were young and naive and Friar Lawrence understood that very well. He also understood their personalities and circumstances, but still chose to marry them in hope that it would end the feud between the two families. As an adult he was also supposed to be a lot smarter ands wiser. Neither of those qualities were shown in any of his decision making.
Friar Lawrence wants to marry Romeo and Juliet in hopes their love for one another will end the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. He schemes and has the characters believe it is out of his love for Romeo and Juliet; as in their eyes, he is a fatherly figure. He is an older man who should be out to help the citizenry of Verona, but being egotistical, he uses Romeo and Juliet for his personal desires to end the feud between the families. Him being egocentric has the Friar make rash decisions in situations that he had not planned for. When the Capulets and the Montagues come together after the death of their children, Friar Lawrence says, “Her nurse is privy; and if aught in this/ Miscarried by my fault, let my old life/ Be sacrificed some hour before his time/ Unto the rigor of severest law.” (V.iii.266-269). The Friar explains Romeo and Juliet’s love story and the reasoning behind their secret marriage and why he went through with marrying the star-crossed lovers. He does not say that his rashness is to be blamed for their children’s death, but turns to the Nurse’s knowledge of the secret marriage. Friar Lawrence is showcasing his rashness by outing the Nurse’s role in the marriage and not taking blame for the deaths, but has the Prince decide his punishment. He wants to blame another character with the knowledge of the marriage to make it seem as though he is not to be blamed. His
When Romeo goes to Friar Lawrence, Romeo’s mentor, he is not sure he should marry these two adolescents. He finally agrees because he thinks it will end the feuding between the two families. But, when he is actually going through with it, he begins to have second thoughts. Friar cries out, “So smile the heavens upon this holy act/ That after hours with sorrow chide us not!” ( 2. 6. 1-2) If he is truly worried that he will be punished for this later, he should have stopped right there. Instead, he married them. This overreaction leads to lying and death in scenes to
In the story Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, there is one evident character that is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The character that is responsible for these deaths is Friar Lawrence. The first reason that Friar Lawrence is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is because he didn’t give Romeo the letter in time so he didn’t know that Juliet wasn’t actually dead, she had just drank an anesthesia. Friar Lawrence gave the letter to Friar John but he never gave it to Romeo, which made him think Juliet was dead so he drank the poison that killed him.“Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo?” said Friar Lawrence. “I could not send it—here it is again—(gives FRIAR LAWRENCE a letter) Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,So
Friar Lawrence had all the good reasons to not marry them, he even felt like he was doing something so wrong that every time he had a chance he gave device that foreshadowed the ending of this story. “These violent delights have violent endings. (Shakespeare 2. 5. 9). In other words he knew this was all wrong. He knew they couldn’t handle this like adults, who was he fooling they were teenagers that had strong impulses. This was not a good combination for a happily ever after. All the good intentions were in his actions but before he ended the feud he ended their lives first. If he would just have told the parents that he just married Romeo and Juliet things might have not ended so horribly. There was nothing the parents could have done no matter how mush they despised the marriage and how much they hated the idea that they’re now united as a family. They couldn’t just file a divorce and move on, they have to deal with it like the adults they’re suppose to be. Father Lawrence had all the power to change the ending in this gone wrong fairy
Today, in society, most humans find it healthy to hold grudges against people. Nowadays we either decide to let people out of our lives or hold a grudge against someone forever rather than even considering forgiveness. In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, a lot of characters suffered greatly because of the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. The play romeo and Juliet takes place in the city of verona. The Capulets and the Montagues have a major feud. The feud between the two families had grown bigger when the Capulets only daughter, Juliet. And the Montague’s only son, Romeo, had fell in love and wanted to get married. Romeo and Juliet were forbidden to get married because of the feud. All because of the terrible circumstance between the Montagues and the Capulets, Romeo and Juliet died fighting for their love. Eventually The Montagues and the Capulets ended their feud when it was too late. It is clear that forgiveness is an important personality trait to posses. The major feud between the Capulets and Montagues negatively affect several characters
will come into it as they will both be falling in love with the enemy