Have you ever been overconfidence of something and messed it up because you were dauntless about your actions? In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Friar Laurence tries to help Romeo and Juliet so they can love each other without anyone’s interruption and end families’ conflict. However, his tragic flaw, overconfident over his plan ends up killing two young stars crossed lover near the end of play. 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 …show more content…
of Capulet. Friar Laurence says “…For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love” (Shakespeare768).
Friar Laurence believes he can solve conflict between Capulet and Montague by bringing son and daughter of each family, but conflict that had been going on for a long period of time doesn’t solve easily and can outcome a different result, such as making relationship between families worse than before, but his tragic flaw blocks him out from thinking of other outcomes and to think only about his plan only. As more time passes, it gets even harder to end conflict, and conflict that had been going on for very long period like Montague and Capulet it is very hard to end conflict, and even if they stop the conflict, it is near impossible to change rage into the love. Later in the play, Friar Laurence proves that he is overconfidence by handing a sleep potion to Juliet without thinking about the consequences. Sleep potion is the special drug that put person into a deep sleep that it almost looks like dead person. As Friar was giving Juliet a potion he says, “…being then in bed, and this distilling liquor drink then off; When presently through all thy veins shall …show more content…
run a cold and drowsy humor’s for no pulse shall keep is native progress, but surcease”(Shakespeare818). Friar’s plan was to fake the death of Juliet, and make her run away with Romeo when she wakes up, but this plan was very risky and nobody knew what other outcome would’ve happened if one thing was messed up, but Friar Laurence was overconfidence about the plan he set up, which later in the play it leads to tragedy. As I mentioned in body paragraph one, friar Laurence has a tragic flaw of being over confident.
In act III, scene III, Friar lets nurse in and let her meet Romeo and talks with him. After nurse claims that Juliet sent her, he let her come inside the cell as saying, “Welcome than” (Shakespeare 797). He should’ve sent her back or at least welcome her after Romeo hide someplace other so he doesn’t meet her, because after Romeo talks with her he realize that Juliet is still in love with him and finds hope to meet her again and continues the love. If friar did not allow Romeo from meeting nurse, he would’ve lost all hopes and would have banished from the town alone. Friar Laurence reveals his tragic flaw again after giving Juliet a sleep potion. He promised to send a friar to let Romeo know about the plan. Friar says,”…I’ll send a friar with speed to Mantua, with my letter to thy lord” (Shakespeare 819). His overconfidence make him let go of the tension down and to make a mistake. First, he should’ve sent a men with more speed, not the friar with a donkey. Second, he should’ve warned Romeo beforehand to make sure message does get to
Romeo. Friar ends up messing up the plan he set up because of being overconfidence. He makes several mistakes throughout the play, but he does not realize it because he was being too cocky about how perfect his plan was. If it wasn’t for his tragic flow, all of these tragedy would’ve not happened.
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.
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 William Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence plays a major role. He makes not just one, but three fatal mistakes; he marries Romeo and Juliet, gives the potion to Juliet, and gets caught up in their love. Romeo and Juliet knew they could trust Friar Laurence because he was a priest, and he always did what was right. Since Friar Laurence was so quick to make decisions he made these three fatal mistakes, which is why he is most to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Unfortunately, their love comes to an end, along with their lives, because of a misunderstanding and a persistent feud between their families. Although there are many characters in this play that have contributed to Romeo and Juliet’s death, Friar Laurence is the person most to blame. Friar Laurence’s actions throughout the play resulted in the two star crossed lovers’ death. He assisted the two when they wanted to get married, which began the disastrous events in the play. Friar Laurence says to Romeo:
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence is the antagonist as seen in his “mistakes” of marrying children from two feuding, noble households, giving the desperate Juliet the sleeping potion, and leaving Juliet at her tomb to kill herself. 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. 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/
Even after all he did to help Romeo and Juliet, the play still ended in tragedy because of Friar Lawrence’s' shortsightedness.
Friar Lawrence felt an internal conflict within him – the conflict of self against self. He knew in his mind that it was wrong to help a teen run away with her lover, who happened to be a murderer. But he also felt himself reach out to them, as he had known them as his own children for a very long time. He knew what a desperate situation Juliet and Romeo were in, and knew that he could prevent their lives from being ruined. But the problem was that the only way to solve everything, was to take a ‘wrong path’, that everyone opposed. In the end, he ends up helping his fellow children. But by this decision, he affected the whole plot of the play, and caused it to turn greatly. This plan would have turned out marvelously, but he made a few mistakes.
Juliet, his role and actions in the play have a large part to play in
To add to the issue, the Nurse later betrays Juliet when Juliet begs her for help. “I think you are happy in this second match, For it excels your first, or, if it did not, Your first is dead, or 'twere as good he were, As living here and you no use of him.” (3.5.226-238). The Nurse goes against her previous actions and expects Juliet to forget about Romeo by dispraising him. Juliet wants to remain faithful to her husband and this betrayal, along with Capulet’s ultimatum, causes Juliet to act hastily and want to die if she wasn’t with Romeo.
In Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, Friar Lawrence plays a dominate role in the eventual death of Romeo and Juliet even though he is not on stage for most of the play. There are basically three major parts that lead to the tragedy; the marriage, the plan, and the inevitable deaths in all which Friar Lawrence plays a vital role.Friar Lawrence plays an essential role in the marriage of young Romeo and Juliet. At Romeo’s request Friar Lawrence states, "In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households to pure love" (Act 2 Scene 3.) Friar Lawrence believes that this holy marriage would bring the Capulet family and Montuague family closer together, for he anticipates that the families will stop hating each other and be peaceful. His attempts to make the marriage of Romeo and Juliet are admirable but poorly planned.
Another example of how Friar Laurence's actions lead to tragedy is his attempt to aid Juliet in a way that cannot be defended as rational. Allowing Juliet to technically kill herself is reckless as well as unintelligent.
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...
While Romeo’s character is very impulsive, Friar Laurence is very practical and thinks before he acts. For example, when Romeo asks the Friar to marry him to Juliet, he cautions Romeo about rushing into the decision. He says “Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love, so dear/ so soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” (2.3. 65 – 67). He also says “Wisely and slowly. They stumble that run fast” (2.3. 94) Friar Laurence wants only the best for Romeo and tries to bring out a more practical and calm side of Romeo.
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