The Role of Friar Lawrence in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

When Romeo and his friends arrive they are discovered by Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, Who wants to kill them but is stopped by Juliet’s father. During the course of the party Romeo and Juliet meet and instantly fall in love. Romeo no longer loves Rosaline and is totally focused on Juliet. At the end of the party Romeo hides in Juliet’s orchard and overhears her talking about him. He then tells her he loves her and they make wedding plans that same night.

She drank it that night because the next morning was her arranged wedding with Paris in which she didn 't want to go to. The nurse walks into her room and she realizes she is dead. The whole Capulet household saddens on her suicide. Friar Laurence comes and tells the Capulets to put her into the vault as soon as possible. Friar John was suppose to give Romeo the letter which told him the plan Friar Laurence and Juliet came up with.

Romeo puts Paris in a tomb and then kills himself. Friar Lawrence arrives and sees the dead bodies; he is frightened of what may happen if he sticks around. Juliet awakes and kills herself with a dagger after the friar has leaves. She wanted to be with Romeo because of their all mighty love, dieing was the only thing. In Act 1 Scene 1 the play opens with the Capulet servants are in the town square.

Tybalt kills Mercutio, which causes Romeo to kill Tybalt in a fit of rage. For this, Prince (the Chief of Police) banishes Romeo from Verona. Juliet Capulet, according to her parents' wish, is to be married off to Paris. She does not want to marry him so she arranges with Friar Laurence to fake her own death with a sleeping potion that will make everyone think that she is dead. Friar Laurence promises to send word to Romeo to meet her when the potion wears off and to take her to Mantua (where Romeo is residing, after being banished from Verona).

Then, when Juliet is in her casket, Romeo will sneak in and take Juliet with him to Mantua. However, that plan falls through as Romeo never receives the plan. Romeo, thinking Juliet is dead, kills himself. Juliet abruptly wakes up and sees her lover on the floor, dead. Heartbroken, she stabs h... ... middle of paper ... ...ere the feud between the Capulets and Montagues is reignited, middle, where Romeo and Juliet marry and Romeo is then banished, and end, where Romeo and Juliet commit suicide and the two families end their feud.

Juliet agrees, drinks the portion and apparently die, and the Friar sends a messenger to inform Romeo, but the messenger fail to reach Romeo, and instead a friend of Romeo reaches him and tells him that Juliet is dead because he didn't knew that Juliet is only apparently dead because of the potion. Romeo buys a poison, comes back to Verona and enters Juliet tomb. He kisses her, and suicide. A little after, Juliet wake up, find her Romeo dead, and use Romeo's dagger to suicide. Romeo and Capulet arrive at the tomb, and decide to stop the fighting between the families.

After a twist of fate, Romeo is banished and Juliet is engaged to another man by her father. Juliet decides to fake her death in order to stay true to her love, Romeo, but he does not receive the message of her plan. He learns of her death, journeys to her grave, and poisons himself. Juliet, seeing him dead, kills herself. The tragedy of the lovers heals the brood between the two families.

The Prince exiles Romeo from Verona for the killing. He also adds that if Romeo returns, "that hour is his last". Lord Capulet, misinterpreting Juliet's grief, agrees to marry her to Count Paris and threatens to disown her when she refuses to become Paris's "joyful bride". When she then pleads for the marriage to be delayed, her mother rejects her. Romeo secretly spends the night in Juliet's chamber, where they consummate their marriage.

Once Romeo sees Juliet he fell in love with her. The next day Romeo and Juliet get married, Friar Lawrence conducts the secret marriage of Romeo and Juliet with the assistance of the Nurse, Juliet's nanny. Once they got married, problems accrued between Tybalt, Mercutio and Romeo. The problems resulted to more problems for had gotten banished from Verona. Juliet mourned the exile of Romeo which Lady Capulet thought it was for the death of Tybalt.

Romeo finds out that Juliet is dead from Balthazar and screams out, "Is it e'en so?--Then I defy you, stars!" (Act 5, scene 1, pg. 213). He blames Juliet's death on fate and returns to Verona with poison to join her. He leaves a little before Friar John tells Friar Lawrence about his failure to deliver the message.