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The role of Friar Laurence in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
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During the teenage years of the brain “…the part of the brain that requires a person to make responsible decisions, understand consequences, and process problem solving is under heavy construction, and much of the time dysfunctional” (Wolner). Teenage brains think on impulsivity because of this Romeo and Juliet committed suicide on acts of impulsivity that would have been solved if they thought rationally. Romeo led off of impulsivity because of his love for Juliet. Juliet on the other hand had bad adult inference in her life, which did lead to her acting on impulsivity. When Romeo killed Tybalt, he wasn’t in the right mindset to be able to control his emotions and actions. Romeo decided quickly and impulsively that, he had to get revenge for his friend Mercutio. He didn’t think about the outcomes that might come from killing Tybalt, like getting banned from Verona or even death. “…have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets and made Verona’s ancient …show more content…
citizens” (Crowther). The prince had told the men that there would be no killing on the streets of Verona and if they did they would be put to death. Romeo was of course impulsive and didn’t think about that, then did it anyway. He just killed Tybalt on impulse. If Romeo would have had taken a moment to think about his actions instead of using the wrong impulse, he wouldn’t have been banned from Verona and got taken away from Juliet. When Romeo first sees Juliet, he switches his interests because he doesn’t know what else to do, she is more beautiful, therefore she is better than Rosaline and must be his. In act one, Romeo sees Juliet for the first time and thinks she is the most perfect woman he has ever laid eyes on. “The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, and, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night” (Crowther). Romeo says that he will touch her hand and make her his lover because of how beautiful she is. He acted upon impulsivity when doing this. His intuition told him before they went inside that there was a bad feeling and he thought the outcome would be lamentable. Romeo didn’t get to know Juliet, before he lashed out and kissed her, if he did and wouldn’t have acted on his impulse then they wouldn’t have been irrational and committed suicide for each other over the controllable acts of impulsivity. Juliet acted on impulsivity when Romeo kissed her, she didn’t stop him nor pushed him away. Even though Juliet does act on some impulsivity just like Romeo, adult interference has made a big impact on her life and her relationship with Romeo. Romeo and Juliet shows how gravely adults impact Juliet’s life in an unsupportive way. In that act, Juliet’s parents want her to marry Paris and they will go as far as forcing her to. Juliet’s father lashes out at her and calls her worthless. Juliet turns for the nurse for help, yet again another adult. The nurse doesn’t help her though, she tells her it would be best for her to marry Paris. So Juliet dismisses the nurse for the first time, and goes to another adult, Friar Lawrence. Juliet says, “Go, counselor. Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. I’ll to the friar to know his remedy” (Crowther) When Juliet goes to the Friar she had to because he was the only one left for her to go to.
Romeo was gone, her parents, and the nurse. She had lost four people and the Friar is the only person for her to turn to. So Juliet of course, takes the Friars advice and does what he tells her to do. The Friar then proceeds tells Juliet obtuse scenarios for her to do. He comes to the judgment, while being impulsive, that the only solution is for Juliet to fake her death by drinking a sleeping potion. The Friar clearly stated, “A sleeping potion, which so took effect as I intended, for it wrought on her the form of death” (Crowther). With Juliet having no one to turn to, she takes the Friar’s advice and does what he says to do. These examples of unfavorable adult interference affected Juliet and made her do the things that she did. If the adults in her life would have thought things out more clearly and did what was right for Juliet and not themselves, things would have turned out differently for both Juliet and
Romeo. Consequently, because of Romeo and Juliet’s were irrationality and the adults in Juliet’s life, they ended up ending their life for each other. Juliet didn’t think before she killed herself for Romeo just like he did for her as well. “They died young and, by the looks of it, in love” (David). Romeo and Juliet killed themselves because of their lack of comprehension in quick situations. They were impulsive and had the wrong people tell them what to do. Romeo and Juliet killed themselves over impulsivity and negative adult interference.
When Romeo and Juliet realize they can’t be together, and Juliet is expected to marry Paris, she needs an escape plan. Juliet pays a visit to the Friar, who creates a plan for Juliet to fake her death with a sleeping potion. When Juliet asks the Friar to help her break free from her wedding with Paris, he replies that: If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou has the strength of will to slay thyself; Then it is likely thou wilt undertake A thing like death to elude away this shame, That cop'st with death himself to scrape from it; And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy. IV i 71-76. Therefore, for the second time, the Friar acts unwisely and agrees to give Juliet this deadly potion.
Romeo, as a young adolescence, your brain is not fully developed, which may lead to regretful decisions. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, teens have a “tendency to act on impulse -without regard for risk.” Therefore, you may not see how irrational this idea is; although, you will when it is too late. Also, Friar Lawrence has devised a plan that reunites you and your Juliet. His plan is to fake Juliet’s death, steal her away in the night, and hide the two of you from your families so that you may live happily ever after. When you die in a matter of hours, Friar explains to both houses how the plan went wrong starting with how he gave Juliet a sleeping potion and he claims he, “intended for it wrought on her the form of death.” He continues to say, “Meantime I writ to Romeo that he should hither come as this dire night to help to take her from her borrowed grave.” Finally he pleas that, “Friar John was stayed by accident, and yesternight returned my letter back.” In my ghostly form, I witnessed him explain the unfolding of these events. Take it from me that making this impulsive decision is unwise and will only ruin Friar’s plan. In addition, poor Juliet is unfortunate enough to awaken to your
First of all, Romeo struggles with his emotions, and it leads to people deaths. In the story Romeo makes a lot to people to die. And one of them was Tybalt because he killed Romeo friend so Romeo got revenge. “This day’s black fate on mo days doth depend; This but begins the woe others must end. This means that everyone is still going to die no matter what because Romeo said they must end. “This shall determine that”. Romeo says that he should resolve this or settle the death that he did. This also means that Romeo shall determine what to do next but they tell him that he is banished but before he left he went with Juliet and they were in the
Many people think that society has changed so much over the years. That the way that children act, has taken a turn for the worst, but in reality children are learning from their ancestors. Children are lying to their parents, they are sneaking out at night to be with a boy that is “the one”, children are going back into the age of Shakespeare. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” which was written by William Shakespeare in 1597, there are two teenagers, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love with each other. These two teenagers try to do everything that they can to live the rest of their lives together, except their families despise each other, so there is no way that they can live the rest of their lives together. So, many people believe that the way that our children are growing up today is taking away the fun parts of their childhood. However in this play Juliet did many of the things that teenagers are trying to do now. Children and sometimes adults now need to realize how your actions not only affect you but also the people around you, you also need to think about the consequences of the actions you make. At first Juliet falls in love at first sight with Romeo, then she takes a potion, which causes her family to think she is dead, and then how Friar Lawrence helps Juliet with the scheming, which shows how adults have to think about others as well.
In his critical essay on Romeo and Juliet, Lois Kerschen portrays the idea that, “Killing Tybalt is a rash act that needed not have happened if Romeo had been better able to control himself” (Kerschen 3). Kerschen then goes on to explain that the reaction which caused the death of Tybalt was irrational and violent. It is accurate that if Romeo hadn’t overreacted to Mercutio’s death and killed Tybalt, he wouldn’t be banished. However, it was Tybalt that brought about the fight because he recognized Romeo at the Capulet party and “his presence there fuels Tybalt’s challenge to him the next day” (Kerschen 2). Tybalt wouldn’t have been angry and challenged Romeo in a duel if it weren’t for the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. Furthermore, Romeo didn’t want to carry on with battle when he was first challenged by Tybalt because now that he was married to Juliet, he thought it was wrong to harm his cousin-in law (Shakespeare Act III. Scene i. Page 132). Only because Tybalt killed Mercutio, Romeo thus killed Tybalt. The feud surely sparked the fight which henceforth resulted in Romeo’s banishment. If it weren’t for the feud, Tybalt wouldn’t have challenged Romeo to the dual, Tybalt wouldn’t have died, and Romeo wouldn’t have been banished. Because he was banished, he was unable to receive the letter from Friar Laurence regarding his plan. Therefore, he was unaware that Juliet wasn’t really dead and he
Tybalt was indefinitely one of the causes of Juliet’s death for multiple reasons. To begin with, he didn’t have to make a big deal about Romeo attending the Capulet party, then causing him to write a letter to Romeo explaining how he wanted to fight him. According to the text, Tybalt states, “This, by his voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy. What! Dares the slave come hither, covered with an antic face, to fleer and scorn at our solemnity?” (Act I Scene 5 Lines 52-56). If Tybalt never made a big deal out of it, neither Mercutio or Tybalt would have died and Romeo would not have been banished. This means Juliet would have never taken the
Tybalt’s death is a major part in the Romeo and Juliet play. Tybalt was still mad at Romeo for going to the Capulet party. He finds Mercutio and Benvolio walking in the street. Mercutio was in the fighting mood and they begin fighting but Romeo tries to break it up but Tybalt is able to stab Mercutio. Romeo then fights Tybalt and kills him. Romeo is then banished. This part is a tragedy because Tybalt’s death lead to Romeo getting banished. Act 4, Scene 4
To go with Paris to Saint Peters Church, Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.”(3.5.153.155) This is a problem because this causes Juliet to go run to Friar Laurence. Friar come up with a plan to get out of the marriage by giving Juliet a sleeping potion that will stop her heart for twenty-four hours and then she will wake up and be with Romeo. Unfortunately with Romeo and Juliet's bad fate the plan does not exactly work out. Instead Romeo does not get the message Friar sent to him that Juliet is in a fake death but instead he thinks she is actually dead, resulting in him committing suicide over Juliet's “dead” body. And after the time of Juliet sleeping potion is up, just minutes after Romeo killed himself Juliet finds him there and decides to take her life as well because she cannot be with Romeo. If the families were not in a feud Juliet could just have told her Mother and Father about her marriage with Romeo but she couldn't because he is a Montague, mocking her go to these insane measure to try and be with her true
After discovering Juliet’s lifeless body, Romeo grieves: “Here’s to my love! [drinks] O true apothec’ry,/ thy drugs are quick. [kisses her] Thus with a kiss I die. [dies]” (Shakespeare 2.3.119-120). The decision to end his life is one that Romeo cannot take back. He chooses this path simply because he believes Juliet is dead. However, he does not wait for Friar Lawrence and assumes the worst. Romeo drinks the poison, ending his life, a poorly thought out option that leads to his downfall. Romeo does not think about how his actions affect everyone around him, including his family and friends. He makes a choice that he cannot take back. In other words, “Romeo and Juliet pay for the consequences of their rash and impetuous natures; hence Shakespeare wrote the play not the revenge of society, but the tragic folly of youth” (Smith 8). Romeo and Juliet's behavior and choices are abrupt and spontaneous. He makes a careless choice to take his life, something that proves to be unwise since he does not bother to check if Juliet is actually dead. The fact that Romeo and Juliet's youth affect their outcome further supports that Romeo is irresponsible. Over the course of the play, Romeo acts in an unwise manner ultimately leading to both his and Juliet’s
“When anger rises, think of the consequences” (Confucius). Romeo’s action of killing Tybalt would have been different if he had thought of how the outcome would affect his relationship with Juliet. Romeo never had the realization that bad choices lead to bad consequences until after he committed the offense. He created the problem of being separated from Juliet for longer than he could ever know. In addition to that, Romeo also let his vexation consume him, and lost control of his discernment. Romeo’s decision to kill Tybalt had most directly caused the tragic events in the play because he did not take time to think about what he was doing.
William Shakespeare is known for writing tragedies with dramatic plotlines. One of his most renowned playwrights, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, features two lovers, who are entangled in a forbidden romance. Upon hearing the news of Juliet’s death, Romeo is devastated and immediately formulates a plan. Romeo’s plan proves to be consistent with his rash and impulsive nature. He immediately decides to buy poison in order to commit suicide, and then return to Verona to see Juliet one last time. “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. / Thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! / I do remember an apothecary” (Shakespeare 5.1.35-37). Determined, Romeo plans to break into Juliet’s tomb to lie with
Many characters acted foolish before thinking through their actions, which caused an abundance of heartache. Every character in the play acted impulsive and was impatient throughout some part of the story. For instance, when analyzing Romeo, Romeo’s tragic flaw if his impetuosity, which means his rashness of action before thinking through. Another flaw of Romeo is that he feared his gut instinct, “I fear, too early: for my mind misgives/ Some consequence yet hanging in the stars/ Shall bitterly begin his fearful date/ With this night's revels and expire the term/ Of a despised life closed in my breast/ By some vile forfeit of untimely death,” (1.4.13). Consequently, more examples include: Romeo falling in “love” with Juliet minutes after meeting her, even after he found out she was a Capulet. Romeo killing Tybalt, and being banished from Verona. Buying poison and later drinking it, even though Juliet was still alive, and would awake in a few minutes. All of these examples illustrated character flaws which caused the deaths of Romeo and
Romeo is the kind of guy who doesn’t take a lot of time to think about things. He loves to jump to action quickly. This is a bad character trait to have as it can easily lead to many negative things. In fact, this is one of the character flaws that lead to Romeos downfall. After being misinformed about Juliet’s “death”, he plans to kill himself right away. He takes no time to think of another solution. “Come, Cardial and not poison, go with me / To Juliet’s grave; for there must I use thee” (5-1-82). Romeo buys a deadly poison with the idea to go to Juliet’s grave to kill himself. He is in distress and he obviously does not know the right thing to do. As if there’s no other way, Romeo travels to Juliet’s grave. He then proceeds to do what he wishes to do, to kill himself. After he kills himself, Juliet wakes up to see Romeo’s corpse. She kills herself shortly after seeing Romeo dead. Romeo could be living a life alive with Juliet if he didn’t conclude things so quickly. Consequently, Romeo has to endure the “death” of Juliet and the actual death of
Most people have moments where they act without thinking about the possible outcomes. This is called impulsivity. An example of impulsivity is when a person is mad, they might say something hurtful that they may later regret. In extreme cases, impulsivity may cause death. An example of this is drunk driving or crossing a busy street without looking. Similarly, many published writings contain characters that display impulsivity resulting in negative consequences. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, extreme impulsivity, by all characters, caused the tragic deaths of the protagonists, Romeo and Juliet.
Impulsive behavior is dangerous and unpredictable, this is the main cause for Romeo and Juliet’s demise. They made split-second decisions about their future together as husband and wife. They asked Friar Lawrence for a plan to save their love, but they were unprepared and did not carefully plan it out accordingly. This resulted in a mix-up and they ended up dying because of their impulsive decision making. Impulsiveness is the very nature of this play, and it clearly causes many conflicts and deaths in Romeo and Juliet.