If the Friar had not interfered, Romeo and Juliet would be alive now. Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare tells the story of two young lovers from rival families. They fell in love, but they knew their family would not approve of their love. They would rather die than be apart. The friar married the two and made all the plans, he didn't stay with Juliet while she was unconscious, and he left Juliet alone with her dead husband. The friar is to blame for Romeo and Juliet's deaths because he did not take the necessary precautions to ensure the safety of the young couple. The Friar married the two without the families consent; setting it all in motion. Friar also came up with all the plans for the marriage and Juliet's fake death. The friar predicted his fate when he said, "May the heavens be happy with this holy act of marriage so nothing unfortunate happens later to make us regret it." (2.6.1-2). The marriage would result in the death of the lovers. Friar purposely kept the wedding a secret, and told Romeo he would, "help you with your secret marriage" (2.3.89-90). If they had never been married they would both still be alive. Friar married Romeo and Juliet which made the wedding to Paris an even greater pressure for Juliet, and eventually leading to their deaths. …show more content…
This led to Romeo finding Juliet "dead" alone. Friar knew the Juliet would "be very angry with [him]" (5.2.25-26) when she woke up. He also knew what time she would be waking up and that Romeo didn't find out the Juliet wasn't really dead, but he still didn't wait in the tomb. The friar should have stayed with Juliet while she was unconscious to make sure she was alright. Friar felt bad for Julioet because "She's stuck inside a dead man's tomb" (5.2.30), but he didn't wait with her to be there when she woke up. If friar had been there when Romeo arrived at the tomb, he could prevented his suicide and
Friar Laurence gives misleading advises to Romeo and Juliet of marrying each other to get their families together, which leads to their death. He supports the marriage of Romeo and Juliet. He suggested to Romeo, "You shall not stay alone,/ Till Holy Church incorporate two in one." Friar Laurence's support for their marriage encourages them to make the wrong decision of marrying each other. Friar Laurence makes their decisions without their parents' permission.
The Friar was right about what he did. The marriage of Romeo and Juliet was both good and bad, but mostly good. The marriage helped to bring peace and unity between the families. It also brought happiness to the two lovers. The bad part was that the families did not see the error of their ways fast enough to stop the feud that their children had to die for it. If they would have noticed it before everyone could have been
In the story of “Romeo and Juliet” it ends with both of them dying. The question is, who is to blame? Friar Lawrence should immediately be punished by the Prince for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. He should be punished because Friar kept secrets from everyone but Romeo and Juliet, he planned Juliet's death, and he planned Romeo and Juliet's runaway.
In the play of Romeo and Juliet there we many people to blame for their deaths: Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Friar John. The person who had the biggest influence on Romeo and Juliet was Friar Lawrence. Everyone trusted him especially Romeo.
Friar showsa complete understanding of Juliet’s issue when he saysthat there is hope, and as mentioned before, he does thesame for Romeo.Now that Juliet takes the vial and her family thinks she hasdied, Friar Lawrence scolds Capulet in trying to force themarriage with Paris. “Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion’scure lives not in these confusions. Heaven and yourselfhad a part in this fair maid. Now heaven hath all, and thebetter it is on your maid”. While Capulet is grieving, Friartells him that Juliet is better off in heaven than living withCapulet. Friar’s importance in this act is to show that withJuliet not marrying Paris, she has a way of reachingRomeo, and eventually the Capulets and Montagueswould be peaceful towards each other. This is part ofFriar’s plan for harmony and therefore he can becharacterized as harmonious and peacemaking. At the end of the play when Romeo dies from drinking thepoison and Juliet dies from stabbing herself. FriarLawrence explains the whole story of the Prince, alongwith Father Capulet and Montague, who is also outsidethe tomb. Friar makes his speech as brief and compellingas he possibly can. “I married them, and their stol'nmarriage day was Tybalt’s doomsday”,“Then gave I her, sotutored by my art, a sleeping potion, which so took effectas I intended”, “And if aught in this Miscarried by my fault,let my old life be sacrificed some hour before his time untothe rigor of severest law”. From this, it shows that FriarLawrence is honest, upstanding, and right-minded.
In the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, there are many who are responsible for the deaths of the two lovers. However Juliet is the most responsible of all. If she did not fake her death in Friar Lawrence’s plan, Romeo would not have thought about killing himself. Although, even without the Friar’s plan, Juliet would have committed suicide anyways. Lastly Juliet is further responsible for her own death that took place after the Friar’s plan because she chose death over becoming a nun.
Moreover, the plan that the Friar puts into motion by giving Juliet the sleeping potion, is a plan that ultimately results in the demise of multiple characters. The Friar plans to tell Romeo that Juliet has taken the potion so he can take her from the tomb and they can both escape the city of Verona, however this plan is not only a failure, but also a tragedy. This series of unfortunate events could perhaps be blamed on other characters or possibly even fate, however, without Friar Laurence, there is no plan to result in many deaths. Without Friar Laurence, Juliet never consents to marry Paris, Juliet never has access to the potion, and Romeo never hears this false message from Balthasar, “Her body sleeps in Capels’ monument,/ And her immortal
Today I will be talking to you about a very well know tragic play. This play was written by William Shakespeare in 1597 . The name of this play was “Romeo And Juliet”. This story took place in a small town of Verona. Their was a big feud between the two families. Romeo was a Montague and Juliet was Capulet their families did not like each other. They would always fight they never liked each other. One day this one Capulet walk up to a guy and ask him if he could read because he could not read. He read what it said and it said who the guy should invite to the party. The Capulets were going to have a big party. One of the Montague heard that they wanted to go to the party and have Romeo go with them. At this time in the book Romeo liked a different
Even though his initial decision was completely against the marriage, he decided the benefits would outweigh the disadvantages. He told Romeo, “If e’er thou wast thyself, and these woes thine.” (II.III.78) Friar Lawrence also gave Juliet the idea to fake her death, instead of telling her parents about her secret marriage. Friar Lawrence only made matters worse by giving Juliet the poison so she could temporary appear dead. Although Friar Lawrence wasn’t the one who directly killed Romeo and Juliet, his poor choices inevitably doomed the young couple to their
The forbidden wedding of Romeo and Juliet could not have happened without the Friar. First of all, the Friar unwisely agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet, even though he knows it will cause later problems. In the beginning, the Friar thinks that "...this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households' rancor to pure love." (II iv 91-92) This shows that the Friar has a slight hope of their marriage possibly working. Therefore, he decides to marry the two lovers. However, as time moves on, the Friar lets on that he has regrets about the marriage. The Friar feels that "too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." (II vi 15) In other words, the Friar means that he senses that this whole wedding is happening too fast and starts to have second thoughts. If the Friar had thought this important decision clearly through, he may have prevented many future tragedies. Therefore, the Friar knows all along that, "These violent delights have violent ends." (II vi 9) The Friar knew that this is an impossible situation, which if made possible by himself will without a doubt end up in tragedy in one way or another. Under these conditions, as the Friar predicts, Romeo sinks into a deep depression; as a result of the fact that he cannot see his wife. Similarly, Juliet becomes depressed and is grieving over the truth of her and Romeo's separation. Without the Friar the two lovers would not have been married, which would have prevented both depressions and future problems to come.
Juliet's parents did not know that she was still alive and was just sleeping and doing this for her love of Romeo. If Friar Laurence explained the love to their families, no death would be involved. This misconception of her death let her parents and other in grief. This potion was going to make her sleep and than wake up in a tomb where Friar Laurence and Romeo would be there so they can live and be together. There was supposed to be a letter sent to Romeo by Friar Laurence but it did not get delivered, Friar John was suppose to tell Romeo about the plane but he got held back which led the letter from not being delivered. Romeo’s close friend found out about the death but didn't know about the plan and went to Verona just to tell Romeo. Romeo was expecting a letter but then realized she has actually died from listening to the news of
He had a lot of responsibility for the death. The Friar was the one who married Romeo and Juliet. The only reason why he married them was because he knew both families had hatred towards each other for generations and generations. The Friar thought the if the two married, that the families would be forced to get along. “ ...for this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households’ rancor to pure love.” (Act 2, scene 3) He first doubted that they were not in love, but the idea of the two households getting along had him marry them. Another reason why the Friar was responsible for the death was because he had Romeo sneak into Juliet’s room for their honeymoon. He should have just made Romeo leave when the Prince said he was banished from Verona. When the Friar heard that Juliet did not want to marry Paris, he gave her a potion that makes her go to a long sleep, which makes it seem like she is dead. Juliet drank the potion the day she was going to marry Paris. Before she did that, the Friar said he would write a letter to Romeo saying she was not dead. The letter never got to Romeo, instead he heard that Juliet was really dead. “ I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault, and presently took post to tell you. O, pardon me for bringing you these ill news, but you did leave me with the duty, sir.”(Act 5, scene 1) Romeo went back to Verona, but he bought a potion, from the Apothecary, that
This man tests his integrity when he attempt to marry this couple in secret; he doubted his own decision, but the decision was final, so he let it fly. Friar “prayed” and hoped for luck: “‘So smile the heavens upon this holy act\ that after hours with sorrow will chide us not’” (2.vi.1-2). Friar knows Romeo is too young to understand true love, and what he doesn't realize are the ramifications of vowing Romeo with Juliet. The long term affects that this marriage has, suicide, outweighs the present satisfaction; unity of two lovers. Friar is also the one to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet at the end of the play because of his public admittance to his prediction early on. He foreshadows, that these “violent” pleasures in this love have “violent” ends, referring to the relational or physically deaths due to a quick and hasty decision. Friars wrong move to forbade the effects of his mistake get him busted, and quoted in the reflection on the cause of Romeo and juliet's deaths. To make Friars indiscretion worse, only he, as far as we know, knows that he also aided, and came up with the idea of faking Juliet's
“She wakes; and I entreated her come forth, and bear this work of heaven with patience: but then a noise did scare me from the tomb; and she, too desperate, would not go with me, but, as it seemed, did violence on herself” (5.3. 259-263. See the corresponding section. He was with her when she had awoken, but he did not want to be caught by the Watch so he abandons her to kill herself, alone. This act is far too self-centered for the Friar because he is aware Juliet has the opportunity to do something regretful once he leaves, and he leaves due to him not wanting to be in a predicament. His “guidance” to Romeo and Juliet is what led them to their downfall.
Juliet threatens to kill herself if the friar does not help her find a way out of the marriage to Paris. Friar Lawrence comes up with a plan for Juliet to take a sleeping potion that would make her appear dead for 42 hours. Friar Lawrence informs Juliet that when she wakes up in the tomb him and Romeo will be there waiting for her. Frair planned to inform Romeo of the plot by sending a letter to Romeo. Romeo never receives the friar’s message and comes up with a plan of his own to kill himself in juliet's tomb. Romeo buys a poison and goes to the tomb to carry out his plan. The friar arrives just a little bit too late and finds that Romeo has killed himself. He tries to convince Juliet to flee the tomb with him because he hears someone coming but she is so grief stricken she refuses. Friar Lawrence leaves and Juliet decides to kill herself because life without Romeo is not worth living. The guard catches the friar outside of the tomb and he confesses the entire the situation.