The Title of This Paper is Currently Unavailable “If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.” This quote from Victor Hugo’s, Les Misérables shows that people have a habit of blaming others for things that they don’t want to take the blame for, but sometimes, it is the one that is blaming other who is really at fault. People blame those who were closest to the situation for the faults that happened in said situation. Though, this method of blame is not alway correct. Friar Lawrence, a main character in William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, is commonly blamed for most of the unfortunate occurrences that occured in this story. …show more content…
Characters in the story, such as Romeo and Juliet, continue to make decisions that were not very well planned or thought out. This puts Friar Lawrence in the middle since he was the one that supervised these decisions. Specifically, Friar Lawrence is blamed for the tragedy because he married Romeo and Juliet, took it upon himself to be the communicator and advisor between the two, and planned the fake death of Juliet, ultimately leading up to the death of both lovers. By marrying Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence is considered the instigator of the entire ordeal.
He was the one to allow them to get married without the consent of either of their parents, but he did it for a good reason. “Authors examined transfer of feeling wrong from fit violation by having participants in a promotion or prevention focus recall transgressions of commission or omission (Studies 1 and 2). Both studies found that when the type of transgression was a fit violation, participants expressed more guilt. Studies 3 and 4 examined transfer of feeling right from regulatory fit. Participants evaluated conflict resolutions (Study 3) and public policies (Study 4) as more right when the means pursued had fit.” (Camacho, 2018) Friar Lawrence did not seem to express any guilt for marrying Romeo and Juliet, so he must have seen it as the right thing to do. Friar Lawrence said, "For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households' rancor to pure love." to establish his hopes for the marriage. He believed that by marrying the two, he could single handedly unite the Capulets and the Montagues. Some believe that he married Romeo and Juliet for the wrong reason, but it’s not his place to marry them just because they love each other so they can be happy. Friar Lawrence needed a good reason to marry them because, while the marriage was not illegal, neither of the parents gave consent and this put Friar Lawrence in the middle, but he married them to create peace. …show more content…
Eventually, that peace was achieved, just not in the fashion he wished. Friar Lawrence was the communicator and advisor of Romeo and Juliet, so many see it as his fault for everything that happened. “Advisors also strategically highlighted how they had suffered for their wrongdoing when they were motivated to establish their right to offer advice. Additional results illustrate how concerns about the legitimacy of advice-giving differ from concerns about persuasiveness. The findings shed light on what prevents good advice from being disseminated, and how to help people learn from others’ mistakes.” (Effron, Miller 2015) Friar Lawrence probably dealt with many situations like this, but maybe just not to this caliber, so he wanted to advise the best to the two but also let them do what they wish. He tried, to the best of his ability, to keep both Romeo and Juliet caught up with whatever was happening at the time. It wasn’t his fault that the two couldn’t talk to each other because their families hated each other, and nor was it his fault that the messenger, Friar John, couldn’t tell Romeo of his plans for Juliet’s fake death. Friar Lawrence was caught in the middle of a very difficult situation. He could only do what he could do. He couldn’t tell the family and he couldn’t ask for help from anyone because there was no one to help. Then, the help he did receive, ended up not delivering. This is why Romeo did not know of Friar Lawrence’s plans. Friar Lawrence’s plan to fake Juliet’s death was a good plan, just poorly executed resulting in the death of both lovers.
“Pragmatism is a key part of any successful plan. Often when organisations create new plans, they get caught up in the excitement of the ‘new’ and forget to allow enough time to manage existing business activities.” (Wright, 2015) Friar Lawrence’s plan of faking Juliet’s death resulted in such tragedy because Friar John failed to deliver the news to Romeo and so Romeo came back to Juliet’s grave and killed himself. This resulted in Juliet waking up to find said deceased Romeo and also killing herself. The plan was well thought out, but executed poorly. By Friar Lawrence faking Juliet’s death, one could tell that he was fully committed to helping these two individuals. He really did care, even if he did it in a strange fashion. When he found out that both Romeo and Juliet had committed suicide he must have felt so guilty because he would have felt like it was his fault, but it wasn’t. It was only a very unfortunate series of
events. Friar Lawrence is blamed for the tragedy because he married Romeo and Juliet, took it upon himself to be the communicator and advisor between the two, and planned the fake death of Juliet, ultimately leading up to the death of both lovers. Friar Lawrence did not mean any harm in doing what he did. In his eyes, he did the wrong thing for the right reason. He married Romeo and Juliet to reunite the two households. He helped the two communicate because he knew they had no other way to communicate so he had to take the position of the middle ground. He planned Juliet’s death because he knew that there was no other way to save the marriage and have them both happy than to “kill” Juliet. This only resulted in a tragedy that was not Friar Lawrence’s fault. People tend to put the blame on others that are closest to the situation. People caught in the middle, especially, are commonly blamed for the misfortunes around them. This only gives more reason to the person who is doing the blaming to look at the situation a bit closer and see that there was no true fault. “Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher.” ― John Yokoyama Works Cited “7 Top Reasons Why Strategic Plans Fail | Cascade Blog.” Cascade Strategy, 21 Mar. 2017, www.executestrategy.net/blog/7-top-reasons-why-strategic-plans-fail/. “Blame Quotes (430 Quotes).” (430 Quotes), www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/blame?page=2. Camacho, C J, et al. “Moral Value Transfer from Regulatory Fit: What Feels Right Is Right and What Feels Wrong Is Wrong.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology., U.S. National Library of Medicine, Mar. 2003, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12635912. “Do as I Say, Not as I've Done: Suffering for a Misdeed Reduces the Hypocrisy of Advising Others against It.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Academic Press, 31 July 2015, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597815000801.
I think that Friar Laurence was to a large extent responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. However, several other factors contributed. and we can not solely blame one person. The circumstances, time period and characters need to be taken into consideration. & nbsp
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.
The Friar was supposed to be a responsible adult and a man of God. This means that people would have come to him to confess their sins. Romeo and Juliet were young and naive and Friar Lawrence understood that very well. He also understood their personalities and circumstances, but still chose to marry them in hope that it would end the feud between the two families. As an adult he was also supposed to be a lot smarter ands wiser. Neither of those qualities were shown in any of his decision making.
There are many reasons to the tragedy of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The tragedy, of Romeo and Juliet, involves a pair of ill- fated lovers who by their deaths will end the long and bitter feud that has been raging between their families for centuries. There are many incidents that occurred and many people could be blamed for the deaths of the two lovers. However, I believe that Friar Laurence is the one character most at fault for the tragedy that occurred.
Friar Lawrence wants to marry Romeo and Juliet in hopes their love for one another will end the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. He schemes and has the characters believe it is out of his love for Romeo and Juliet; as in their eyes, he is a fatherly figure. He is an older man who should be out to help the citizenry of Verona, but being egotistical, he uses Romeo and Juliet for his personal desires to end the feud between the families. Him being egocentric has the Friar make rash decisions in situations that he had not planned for. When the Capulets and the Montagues come together after the death of their children, Friar Lawrence says, “Her nurse is privy; and if aught in this/ Miscarried by my fault, let my old life/ Be sacrificed some hour before his time/ Unto the rigor of severest law.” (V.iii.266-269). The Friar explains Romeo and Juliet’s love story and the reasoning behind their secret marriage and why he went through with marrying the star-crossed lovers. He does not say that his rashness is to be blamed for their children’s death, but turns to the Nurse’s knowledge of the secret marriage. Friar Lawrence is showcasing his rashness by outing the Nurse’s role in the marriage and not taking blame for the deaths, but has the Prince decide his punishment. He wants to blame another character with the knowledge of the marriage to make it seem as though he is not to be blamed. His
It is Friar Laurence’s good intentions, his willingness to take risks and his shortsightedness that lead to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence does not have very much time on stage, but the time he does have is crucial to the plot line. Through his words, Friar Lawrence demonstrates that he is well intentioned, yet sometimes shortsighted, and is not afraid to take risks to help others. He may do something out of the ordinary, if he thinks the outcome will help someone for whom he cares. For example, when he says "In one respect I'll thy assistant be;/ for this alliance may so happy prove, / to turn your households rancor to pure love" (II.iii.97-99), he is saying that the only reason he will marry Romeo and Juliet is that he hopes that the marriage will end the hostilities between the two houses.
Friar Lawrence plays a very important role in the play between Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare has presented Friar Lawrence with much to blame for the horrific ending of their lives. Not only was Friar Lawrence the brains behind the plan of getting them together after his banishment, he was also the man who agreed to the marriage in the first place. ‘for doting, not loving, pupil mine’ Romeo holds a lot of respect for Friar Lawrence and he is a father figure towards him in the play. Friar Lawrence’s opinions therefore are considered by Romeo, so therefore he should have been more careful in his decisions of marriage.
Despite his conscience, Friar Lawrence reveals a potion that will put Juliet to a false death, in the “Potion Plan” scene. His motivation was caused by the weeping and tears of Juliet who was in the hands of a twisted marriage against her will. She had already been married to her love, but now that promise was in danger of being broken. From the few lines that the friar speaks, the audience realizes that this friar is certainly not the stereotype friar that goes around trying to live an impossible life of perfection.
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.
Friar Lawrence should be blamed for the Tradegy of Romeo and Juliet because he acted to quickly. The Friar arranges for Romeo and Juliet to be married in secret, without thinking of the consequences of his actions. For instance, Friar hurriedly says ““…come, come with me, and we will make short work.””(2:4:101) Not only does Friar Lawrence marry Romeo and Juliet but he rushes their marriage. Although earlier he wisely states “wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.” (2:3:101) Friar tells Romeo that slower is wiser, yet he rushes their wedding. Furthermore, the Friar is hiding Romeo after he has ki...
Beginning with Friar Lawrence's first mistake, he marries Romeo and Juliet not knowing that it would create a controversy. When Friar Lawrence marries Romeo and Juliet, no one knows and there is no parental consent. By not telling anyone, Romeo and Juliet are put in danger because of this secret. Friar Lawrence noted, "But come, young waverer, come, go with me,/ in one respect I'll thy assistant be" (2.3.89-90). In saying this, the friar helps them with their secret wedding. If others knew about this, then they would be able to help Romeo and Juliet during their t...
Although Friar Lawrence is a member of a religious order, he too is also to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The Friar can be described as quick to think or secretive. For example, he agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet without even informing the parents about the marriage. Friar Lawrence says to Romeo before the marriage, “So smile the heavens upon this holy act, that after-hours with sorrow chide us not!” This shows that Friar Lawrence, the adult in the situation, knew of the consequences they would have to face if they were caught (2.4.1-2). He even has the secretive idea to hide the marriage from both families. He knows that the families were not fond of each other, but still thinks it is right for him to marry them without notifying the parents. If Friar Lawrence had decided to inform the parents that Romeo and Juliet were going to be married, he would not be in this mess. Near the end of the play, Friar Lawrence realizes the mistake he made by marrying Romeo and Juliet. He admits to his actions saying, “Miscarried by my fault, let my old life be sacrific’d some hour before this time, unto the rigor of severest law” (5.3.267-269). Friar Lawrence took the blame for his impulsive actions because he knows it was mainly his fault for marrying Romeo and Juliet, and he does not want to feel guilty anymore. Although Friar does not die, he is going to be jailed for his
Friar Lawrence thought it was a good idea to keep Romeo and Juliet’s relationship a secret. He was unaware that this would be a cause of their deaths. Friar Lawrence said to Romeo when he gave consent to marry Romeo and Juliet, “come, young waverer, come, go with me, in one respect I’ll thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove to your households’ rancor to pure love” (II. iii. 83-93). Friar Lawrence believed that he was doing the right thing. He believed that if he married and Romeo and Juliet he would be ending the feud between the two families. Instead of saying no that he won’t marry them and they should wait Friar should’ve warn both of their parents about what the lovers were planning. He just decided to marry them even though they had known each other for only a couple hours and without their parents consent. Another time that Friar Lawrence was secretive about Romeo and Juliet’s relationship, which then led to their deaths, was after Romeo killed Tybalt and was banished and then later on Lord Capulet decided to accept Paris’ request to marry Juliet. Juliet went to Friar Lawrence and he told her this after she threatened to kill herself “ Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate as an execution as that is desperate which we would prevent… if Thou hast the ...
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...
Friar Lawrence had the potential to prevent the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, and instead, because of his choices, he caused them. Yes, the other characters may have contributed to Romeo and Juliet’s death, but Friar Lawrence caused it. The blame rests solely on his soldiers. Works Cited Aubrey, Bryan. A “Critical Essay on ‘Romeo and Juliet’.