Friar Lawrence In The Tragedy Of Romeo And Juliet

The suicide of anybody is a tough pill to swallow. Especially when it was the death of two love struck young people. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juiet by William Shakespeare has set up a situation that as we all know results in the death of both lovers. Now like after most suicides we can expect Verona to become a place packed with self blame. However, Friar Lawrence is part of a select group that really can prove that without them, people would still be alive. Some people would say that also in this group are the Capulets. They would try to blame them because they arranged Juliets marriage with Paris, which provoked her to go to Friar Lawrence for her like death potion that resulted in her actual death. Looking at the other main factor in that statement, however, it is apparent that without Friar Lawrence, Juliet wouldn’t have had a death like potion. Following this train of thought, if Friar Lawrence had waited to marry her and Romeo until he had Capulets permission, or if Friar had at least informed Capulet of his daughters marriage, then they wouldn’t have arranged the marriage to Paris in the first place. Building on the previous idea, Friar Lawrence had betrayed his integerty as a Friar by marrying Juliet without her father’s permission. Even Juliet acknowledges that the friar made a mistake by marrying

The letter was revealed after it couldn’t be delivered to be “not nice” (864) and that “neglecting it may do much damage” (848). What Friar Lawrence meant when he told Friar John this is that the letter was about a very serious matter, litterally life or death, and that by not delivering it to Romeo, someone just died. You would think that if something was that important, you would develop the “if I want something done right then I have to do it myself” mentality and take the letter to Romeo yourself. Or, maybe you track Romeo down and talk to him face to