Interference of Friar Laurence in the tradgedy Romeo and Juliet

Lady Montague would have loved to see her son before he was banished and not allowed to come back. He thinks that this marriage will bring together the two feuding families, when it will only separate them even more. Friar Laurence was helping Capulet and Lady Capulet mourn over Tybalt’s death, and was acting angry that Romeo was not slain. If everything was thought about clearly and not rushed through then none of this would have happened and Romeo and Juliet would not have died such a tragic death. Another example of the Friar lying is by not telling Montague and Lady Montague of Romeo and Juliet’s elopement. This only made matters worse, and now both Romeo and Juliet are dead. The Friar made this marriage a huge mistake, and he could have stopped the whole thing right there and then by just saying no. The Friar is all the way against suicide, so when Juliet speaks of it, he does not think about any other solutions, and takes the easy way out. However when he got there, he found Romeo dead on the floor and Juliet just waking up. The second example of this would be when the Friar went ahead and married the two teenagers. 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 have all combined to make a conclusion that the Friar had a definite role in this tragedy and he did make some matters worse than they could have been if everything had of been thought through. Friar Laurence should know this, and he was going against his church by marrying two young teenagers with out the approval of either families. The Friar lied to the family and deceived such a way that if they had found out, they would have slain him too. That is really the worst flaw in the characters of this play. By giving Juliet this vile, he is telling her that there is no other way out than to fake her death and put grief and despair over her family.