The Friar’s A Liar Who Misfired At the time William Shakespeare conducted the romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, preplanned weddings were conventional, happening much more often than not. In this scenario, the Montagues and Capulet families are in the middle of a chronic. Friar Laurence, being a neutral character, is increasingly becoming tired of this dispute and so, in effort to resolve the feud, he marries Romeo and Juliet in secret. Later, the Friar tries to unite the two by concocting a plan for them to escape their home city, Verona, and live happily hence ward in Mantua. As one knows Friar Laurence does this out of genuine intentions, he unequivocally bears the responsibility for the untimely suicides of Romeo and Juliet because …show more content…
Just one day after they meet at the Capulet’s party, Romeo goes to Friar’s church to try and persuade him to marry the two later that day. After a rather prolonged conversation, Friar Laurence reluctantly consents to the idea hoping it would end the feud. Accordingly, Romeo becomes ecstatic about it, but the Friar warns him by asserting, “Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast./” (2.4.100). In this quote, Shakespeare, by way of the Friar, foreshadows that a tragic event may occur as a result of rushing into marriage. At this point in the play, the Friar is regarded as a sage, virtuous man; thus, one can conclude the authenticity of his words. So, the line by Friar Laurence is a subtle message of precaution to Romeo for what he calls “running fast” into marriage. With this in mind, one should realize that if Friar Laurence knew there was a substantial amount of peril in this abrupt marriage, why would he dare marry them? He knows this surreptitious marriage could lead to major trouble, especially since Romeo and Juliet are still so naïve. The quote enables the reader to start to foreshadow how the rushed marriage could “stumble,” and cause a calamity. If this line was removed from the epic tragedy, one would not know the forewarning that the Friar gives, as a result causing the audience to become less engaged with the destiny and course of their love. Therefore, Friar Laurence is accountable for …show more content…
Friar Laurence gives the letter to Friar John to take to Romeo in Mantua as part of his plan to unite Romeo and Juliet, only for Friar Laurence to find out that it is not delivered. He reacts to this unsuccessful dispatch by professing to Friar John, “By my brotherhood,/The letter was not nice but full of charge,/Of dear import, and neglecting it/May do much danger.” In the response to the horrid news, Friar points out that because the letter has not been delivered, there may be “much danger” as a result. Additionally, he expresses the importance of it through the words “The letter was not nice but full of charge,/Of dear import.” From the phrase “May do much danger,” the audience can continue to foreshadow that peril is ahead and it may be lethal to the couple. Because of this, Friar is nervous as speaks, and severely disappointed in the dispatch. Moreover, the fact that he gives the letter to Friar John instead of delivering it personally adds to the fault of Friar Laurence for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Equally important, if the quote was not present in the play, the audience would be unaware of the potential consequences that could result from the incident. For all these reasons, Friar Laurence is responsible for the conspicuous and renowned deaths of the
Friar Laurence marries Romeo and Juliet which tends to be a bad decision. He agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet and then keep their marriage a secret. He thinks that when Capulets and Montagues will discover their marriage, they will stop fighting and turn their rancor into friendship. So he told Romeo, "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' rancour to pure love." (2.3.92-95). If he would not have married them, Juliet would not have been Romeo's wife and she could have happily married Paris. But now, she was Romeo's wife and she did not want to marry any other man, so she decided to kill herself rather than marry Paris.
One of the main reasons that Friar Laurence was held accountable for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is because he married them. First of all, this marriage was done without the consent of the parents. Secondly, he could have tried to support their relationship instead of marrying them and not telling anyone. He speaks of how these two will become one in marriage; “For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone / Till holy church incorporate two in one” (Shakespeare 47).Friar Laurence thought that marrying these two lovers w...
Friar Laurence’s involvement in the marriage of Romeo and Juliet has caused a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet thought that they fell in love, but the Friar should have known that they were just kids and they were really 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: Therefore love moderately: long love doth so, too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” When he says this, he is giving Romeo a warnin. Also, Friar Lawrence should have known at the time, that Romeo was loving with his eyes and not with his heart. For example, Romeo was in a relationship with Rosaline, before marrying Julliet. Inonclusion , the Friar did not have the expierence to know that they were kids.
With Friar Laurence being so quick with his thoughts, he married Romeo and Juliet. This was a mistake and is the main reason for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. In Act 2 Scene 6 when Romeo takes Juliet to see Friar Laurence to get married, Friar Laurence
Friar Laurence's immature actions make him part of the tragedy. For one, he married Romeo and Juliet. When told that Romeo loves Juliet, Friar replies, "Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here! /Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, /so soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies/ not truly in the hearts, but in their eyes," (II, III, lines 66-69). In these lines, Friar admits that Romeo is only lusting for Juliet. Being the adult, Friar shouldn't have married Romeo until he found true love. However, the Friar was immature and married them anyways. Then, Friar came up with the idea for Juliet to fake death. Juliet is distressed about Romeo being banished so Friar comes up with the plan saying, "Hold, then. Go home, be merry, give consent/ to marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow,” Juliet is then suppose to "Take thou this vial, being then in bed/ And this distilling liquor drink thou off." After being buried and awakened, "Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua." (IV, I, Lines 90-119). This bad advise, to give a girl a drink like death and tells her to run away, is only one of many immature actions Friar takes. Finally, Friar did not stay with Juliet after she frantically woke up, in a tomb, next other diseased husband who was supposed to run away with her to Mantua. Inste...
When he says this, he is stating he will assist Romeo by marring the two, because through the marriage their families may learn to love each other; therefore ending the fight. Friar Laurence only married the two lovers because he thought it would have a positive impact on the families’ feud. However, he should of thought about the consequences and how since the head of the families were unaware, the marriage could only have negative affects. Also, they were never m...
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
Friar Laurence’s tragic flaw is being too overconfidence over his actions he planned. When Romeo comes over to friar’s cell for advice, he should’ve never tried to solve conflict between Capulet Family and Montague family. His plan was to change two families madness to love by marring Romeo, son of Montague and Juliet, daughter
Romeo is asking Friar Laurence to marry him and Juliet, when they met just hours ago. The quote makes Romeo seem very impulsive because they just met hours ago and he's already asking Juliet to marry him. Don't you think you ought to let there be at least more than one day before you marry someone, well in this case Romeo and Juliet don't think so. I believe this is very foolish of them, because them trying to be together kills both of them. This young man obviously does not know what he wants
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.
First of all, the dishonesty of Friar Lawrence, who married Romeo and Juliet, foreshadows the probability of his continuity to take even more insincere measures in manipulating the consequences faced by the young lovers. The Friar carries out an erroneous act of secretly marrying them under the church’s license without manifesting it in the public and encourages them to deceive their parents by keeping their relationship to themselves. He then agrees to marry Juliet and Paris, a county, and plans on faking her death, in order to avoid the marriage instead of revealing the truth about Romeo and Juliet right away. “I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,/On Thursday next be married to this County.” (4.1.49-50) In short, various incidents in the lives of Romeo and Juliet, controlled by Friar Lawrence’s cowardice result in undesirable circumstances.
He also tells Juliet that "Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, and hither shall hem come; and he and I shall watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee to Mantua" (Act 4, Scene 1.) Unforeseen to neither the Friar nor Juliet that an error such as the one of Friar John’s would prove to be deadly. Poor Romeo was not able to receive the letter. Friar Lawrence plays a significant role in the plan for Juliet to "sleep."Friar Lawrence plays an important rule in the actual deaths of Romeo, Juliet, And Paris. Friar Lawrence is unable to reach Romeo with the news of Juliet’s "death." Romeo, thinking Juliet is dead rushes to Verona, but not before buying some fast poison.
And again the friar says wise words when he comments to Romeo as he’s leaving that Romeo should be wise and slow, because, “they stumble that run fast.” He’s clearly telling Romeo to not marry so soon, to think this through.
The start of Friar Laurence’s impulsive actions begins when he proposed a secret marriage of Romeo and Juliet.
Friar Laurence, through his lack of good judgment, is largely responsible for the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. Rather than being supportive of them and helping them disclose their loving situation, Friar Laurence took the “easy” way out. He succumbed to their desire to elope. He secretly married Romeo and Juliet instead of standing behind them and encouraging them to confront their families with the facts about their commitment to and love for each other. As a result, an even stronger bond between them was created through marriage: "For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone / Till holy church incorporate two in one" (2.6.36-37). Friar Laurence married Romeo and Juliet, hoping that their union would bring an end to the constant feuding between their two families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Though the friar’s intentions were good and above reproach, they were certainly missteps along a pathway to tragedy. None of the tragedies would have occurred if Romeo and Juliet were not married. When Tybalt challenged Romeo...