In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, the character, Friar Laurence, has a major impact on the outcome. The Friar made the play much more complicated for Romeo and Juliet. He helped them for the wrong reasons and pushed them to do things that made the situation worse. He started it all by marrying them. And then the Friar came up with a plan that ended up killing them both.
The Friar was tired of the Montague and Capulet families fighting, so he thought he could fix the problem himself. When Romeo came to the Friar about his pathetic love life, instead of helping Romeo for the right reason, he did it for the wrong one. “Thy love did read by rot, 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.”(II, iii, 88) The Friar is stunned to hear that Romeo is in love with a Capulet, but quickly gets over it when he realizes that he could bring the households’ together. “Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here! Is Rosaline, that th
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ou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken?”(II, iii, 65) However, the Friar didn’t rush Romeo into getting married to Juliet. Romeo says, “Hence banished is banished from the world, and world’s exile is death. He some how thought he could bring the two households together and stop the quarrel. “What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?. “Come, come with me, and we will make short work; for, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone till holy church incorporate two in one. How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo come to redeem me?”(IV, iii, 21) She is supposed to wake up in her tomb and Romeo is to go get her, but Romeo is told that she is dead by Balthasar. ”(III, iii, 99)
A plan is thought up by the Friar to keep Romeo and Juliet together.
The Friar, thinking he was smart to help, ruined Romeo and Juliet’s lives.
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