Friar Laurence's interference in the lives of the characters in Romeo and Juliet set much of the fighting, rage and ultimately, death of these characters into motion. Romeo and Juliet is the title of the great tragedy written by William Shakespeare. The characters in this play include: Paris, Montague, Romeo, Lady Montague, Capulet, Juliet, Lady Capulet, Nurse, Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt, Friar Laurence, Friar John and Apothecary. Three points must be made in order to prove the thesis statement, and they include: Friar Laurence's involvement in the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, the Friar's lying to Capulet and his family and his involvement in the false death of Juliet.
             Romeo and Juliet may have 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, and in their triumph die; like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume: the sweetest honey
             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 warning to think his marriage over before he goes through with it, and he is trying to say that once he is pulled into this so-called love, it will take him over and eventually kill him. The Friar is trying to say that quick love will end up as a tragedy and he is foreshadowing the rest of the play. The second example of this would be when the Friar went ahead and married the two teenagers. He thinks that this marriage will bring together the two feuding families, when it will only separate them even more. The marriage was a huge mistake and was probably the biggest cause of the tragedy, because Romeo and Juliet are star-crossed lovers who felt as if they were in love, but can love really come t...