The Friar is not to blame for the death of the lovers .Romeo and Juliet's love and decisions are upon them, Friar Laurence is not to blame for any of their actions. It is not Friar Laurence's fault due to him protecting them and giving them advice and guidance, simply Friar Laurence refers better ideas and choices rather than irrational decisions. I believe, the Friar is not to blame due to the lovers being able to make their own choices. Friar Laurence is a great friend and Ally to the couple and blessed them and performed their marriage ceremony. He guides them through the ceremonial stages. Friar Laurence had a vision that Romeo and Juliet will get married and when the secret of their marriage will be known, their families will accept it. This will bring peace and harmony in Verona. The Friar was still concerned about the consequences, but his vision was stronger than the reality. As previously mentioned, Friar Laurence is a great ally to Romeo and Juliet only for the sake of bringing peace to Verona. Friar Laurence cannot be blamed for his actions as Romeo and Juliet were adults. He advised Juliet of how she can escape from all the people around her and live happily with RomeoFriar Laurence suggested Juliet to drink the potion, but he simply advised Juliet to drink the …show more content…
He could sense the trouble that Romeo and Juliet will go through so he decided to help this young couple. Through supporting them his vision of their family feud ending would become possible. ” Friar Laurence is a father figure for Romeo by leading him in the right direction. Romeo seems to feel more comfortable talking in private to Friar Laurence than to his own father. Friar Laurence was in Romeo’s life from the beginning. He was guiding him as a teacher in the earlier scenes and later he is seen supporting Romeo in his major decisions. Friar Laurence was a good preacher and a well wisher of Romeo and Juliet, and also of
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
Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's first authentic tragedy. It is about two lovers who commit suicide when their feuding families prevent them from being together. The play has many characters, each with its own role in keeping the plot line. Some characters have very little to do with the plot; but some have the plot revolving around them. While the character of Friar Lawrence spends only a little time on stage, he is crucial to the development of the conclusion of the play. It is Friar Laurence’s good intentions, his willingness to take risks and his shortsightedness that lead to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
This is not say that Friar Laurence does not feel responsible for Romeo and Juliet's deaths, he recounts his tale to the Prince and offer his life as a sacrifice if their deaths are his fault (5.3.228-68). In every step of deceiving Romeo and Juliet's parents, the government, and everyone who thought Juliet to be dead, Friar Laurence was attempting to: end a great feud between two families, help Juliet keep her marriage vows (by helping her out of marrying Paris), keeping Juliet alive, keeping Romeo safe from imprisonment or death, and ultimately, protecting the lovers' love from outside influences. He sees his acts as acts that are working for the greater good, and therefore they are just.
As a result of this failure, the blame for Romeo and Juliet's death lies on Friar Laurence. Actions must be taken very carefully to help people and should do no harm to them. Friar Laurence's faults in this play are his advice for marriage, his plan to fake Juliet's death, and his failure in the plan which brings it closer that Friar Laurence has a blame for Romeo and Juliet's death. One should always think over the results of their decisions, actions, and advice before taking any step for someone else.
To start off, I believe that Friar Laurence is to blame because of the things that he gave, did, and kept away from people. Friar Laurence gave the potion to Juliet to help the plan of making her escape. The potion did work, however it didn’t exactly work on time, and that caused Romeo to kill himself. Secondly, he was the only adult who knew the story exactly, but he decided not to tell anyone else about it. If he would have possibly told Juliet’s parents then there would be a very good possibility that both her and Romeo would still be alive. Also, he Friar Laurence was the person who married Romeo and Juliet, bringing them together. If he wouldn’t have
Friar Laurence’s decision to marry Romeo and Juliet without consideration and does it rashly is what leads to the tragedy in the play. Friar Laurence explains, “So soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” Since Romeo rapidly forgets Rosaline, Friar Laurence feels skeptical about Romeo’s love for Juliet, and he believes it is because of her beauty due to them just having met. He then states, “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
In the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, several people are to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death. All of the main characters have some contribution to the death of Romeo and Juliet one way or another. Friar Laurence is the priest in Verona that everyone trusts but he uses his power of trust against him. Even though many people are to blame Friar Laurence was the main cause for Romeo and Juliet’s death.
In Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence has a major role. As a member of the Order of St. Francis, a group of wise and generous priests, Romeo and Juliet trusted Friar Laurence completely, turning to him for advice, and solutions. He was there throughout Romeo’s and Juliet's lives; he married them, came up with a plan to keep them together, and was a friend throughout their tragedies. However, Friar Laurence’s rash action in marrying Romeo and Juliet, his shortsighted plan for rescuing Juliet from an unwanted marriage to Paris, and his fear of committing sin all contributed to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Friar Laurence is yet another multidimensional character created by Shakespeare. In this case, while be very wise, Friar is a character who also tends to be hypocritical. Throughout Romeo’s life Friar has always been a fatherly figure towards Romeo presenting him with advice on how to act and live his life. Right before the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, Friar gives a cautionary speech to Romeo in which he says, “Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. / Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow” (2. 6. 15-16). Friar Laurence advises Romeo that the only way his marriage with Juliet will last is by balancing his love, because loving too fast or too much will cause their marriage to collapse. As sound as Friar Laurence’s judgment is, he often contradicts what he says through his actions and becomes rather hypocritical. When Romeo first approaches Friar telling him of his love for Juliet and requests that Friar marry the couple, Friar is hesitant. Finally Friar agrees to marry them. “But come young waverer, come, go with me, / In one respect I’ll thy assistant be” (2. 3. 97-98). In this section of the play, Friar calls Romeo a young waverer, meaning that Romeo is inconsistent and often changes his mind. Then Friar decides that although Romeo is an inconsistent man, he will marry Romeo and Juliet. After this Friar tells Romeo that he needs to love “Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast” (2. 3. 102-103). Friar had previously told Romeo that he was a young waverer, and now is hypocritically telling him that he needs to make wise decisions with his relationship with Juliet. While Friar Laurence is wise, throughout the entirety of the play Shakespeare characterizes Friar to be hypocritical of
Throughout time, there have been many tragedies caused by romance. For example, the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is known for its romantic tragedy between two star-crossed lovers. With all the deaths, who is truly to blame for Romeo and Juliet's deaths? Friar Laurence is most to blame for many obvious, yet overlooked, reasons. The forbidden wedding of Romeo and Juliet could not have happened without the Friar.
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.
In the classic play Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence plays a major part. Romeo and Juliet trusted him entirely as he was the priest of their town. They turned to the Friar for help and advice at a few crucial points in the play. Little did these two lovers know that their decision to turn to Friar Laurence for help would eventually lead to their deaths. Friar Laurence was responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he married Romeo and Juliet, he was afraid of committing a sin, and because of his faulty plan for saving Juliet from a marriage to Paris.
Although he is not seen very much during the play, Friar Laurence's role is a highly important one. In Romeo and Juliet there are three main events, the marriage, the plan and the death, that relate to him. One of the most true and sensible things told to Romeo by the Friar, was a forewarning to the hastiness of the wedding;
In conclusion, Friar Laurence is responsible for the deaths of the titular characters in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet because he makes fatal decisions involving cowardice, unreliability, and impulsivity. Friar Laurence’s decisions such as, choosing to abandon Juliet in the Capulet tomb, failing to emphasize the importance of his letter to Friar John, giving Juliet a sleeping potion, and marrying Romeo and Juliet proved to be fatal, as they lead to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The decisions Friar Laurence makes throughout the drama make him responsible for the acts of Romeo and Juliet’s suicides.
In ‘The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’, Romeo and Juliet die due to unfortunate circumstances, but who’s fault is it really? The person who is at fault for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet is the Friar Lawrence. Although Friar Lawrence did not plan for Romeo and Juliet to die his poor planning, secrecy and untimeliness happened to cost them their lives. Friar Lawrence’s biggest flaw in almost all of his plans is miscommunication and decisions made far too quickly to be thought through well enough. Even though Friar Lawrence’s intentions were ethical and well thought through in the beginning of the play his choices and his morals further along in the play seem to diminish and even Juliet begins to question if her trust in him is misplaced and if he would poison her to save himself from possible exile or death but, nevertheless she decides to trust the Friar and drink the strange concoction.