Essay On Friar Lawrence In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

I think that Friar Lawrence is the most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Here is my reasons, One of the reasons is that he agreed to marry them. Thinking that the
marriage would end the feud between the Capulets and Montagues and the streets of Verona
would final peaceful. “ O, she knew well thy love did by route, that could not spell 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 rancor to pure love” (Friar 1)
Another reason is that when he made his plan about Juliet to drink the poison which
would stop the wedding he said he would send a messenger to tell Romeo. But the only problem
was that he didn't explain to the messenger that

we'll do he made it sound like Juliet actually
died. “Then she is well, and nothing can be ill her body sleeps in Capulets monument And her
immortal part with angel lives I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault and presently took post.
O, pardon me for bringing these ill news since you did leave it for my office sir.” (Messenger)
My final reason is that Friar Lawrence left Juliet alone when he heard news instead of
taking her with him so he could hide her plus he also left Romeo’s sword on him instead of
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taking it so Juliet couldn't harm her self. “ I hear some noise lady come from that nest of death
contagion, and unnatural sleep. A great power than we can contradict hath thwarted out intents.
Come, come, away thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead; on Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of
thee among a sisterhood of holy nuns.

Stay not to question for the watch is coming, come, go,
good Juliet. I dare no longer stay” (Frair 2)
You could that he did procrastinate for a bit and that the nurse also had a bit to do about
it. Yes I do agree with you but the only problem is that he did agree after a while and then he
thought that they would tell there's parents because the nurse was there. And that the nurse really
didn't have that much of fault because she never approved of it but she only kept it a secret
because she didn't want to get in trouble with Mr. Capulet or Mrs. Capulet. And also that the
nurse was the one who was telling Romeo about these things because she always treated Juliet as
her daughter so she wanted the best for her and Romeo. and she didn't want her to have a awful
marriage with Paris and to not be happy with the marriage. And another reason that the nurse
was not the major cause of the death of Romeo and Juliet is that she did not know the plan of
Friar giving Juliet the poison that would make her go in a half coma because when the nurse saw
Juliet she was scared because she thought that she was dead not knowing that Friar gave her the
poison.
And that concludes by reason on why I think that Friar was the cause of the death of
Romeo and

Juliet.