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William Shakespeare’s story Romeo and Juliet is certainly one of the most known and appreciated classics of all times. Almost everyone who went to school has already heard about this story of two teenagers, Romeo and Juliet, that fall in a powerful love. But, their love is an impossible love because their families, the Montague and the Capulet, are great enemies. Romeo sees Juliet for the first time in a supper at Capulet`s house. They immediately fall in love and they decide to get married in secret by Friar Laurence. The problems begin when the cousin of Juliet, Tybalt, kill Mercutio, a friend of Romeo. Romeo then kill Tybalt and he is banish from the town. Juliet is then force to married Paris but just before, with the help of Friar Laurence, they try a plan to escape this marriage by giving her a distilling liquor drink to fake her death during twenty-four hours. The plan is to escape with Romeo but it do not work because Friar Laurence is unable to send his letter to!
Romeo. Romeo and Juliet finally commit suicide for each other at the end.
At first, we can think that Friar Laurence has a secondary role in the story. But, in analysing more only his character and
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Hold then, go home, be merry, give consent
To marry Paris.
Unseemly woman in a seeming man,
And ill-beseeming bast in seeming both,
Thou hast amazed me. Friar Laurence then begin to be worried about what could happen if Romeo do not read the letter:
Now must I to the monument alone;
Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake. By my holy order,
I thought thy disposition better tempered.
Friar Laurence is also the one who tells Romeo that he is banished: “A gentler judgement vanished from his lips: / Not body’s death, but body’s banishment” (3. “Miscarried by my fault, let my old life / Be sacrificed, some hour before his time, / Unto the rigour of severest law (5.
No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest (4. He also says to Romeo to love moderately, which means that it is better to love less but for a longer period than to have a powerful love at the beginning that degrades through time.
Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead,
And Paris too. He looks like a man but he acts and thinks like a woman. Meanwhile, Friar Laurence will send a letter to Romeo to come pick her when she will awake:
In the meantime, against thou shalt awake,
Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift;
And hither shall he come, and he and I
Will watch thy waking, and that very night
Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.
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