Romeo And Juliet Essay On Friar Lawrence

Improved Essays
People all around the world have, at one point or another, loved somebody. For some, maybe it was love at first sight. However love at first sight does not mean marrying somebody the next day. Many people would think of a situation like that to be preposterous, however in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet one man did not. The tragic death of Romeo and Juliet can unequivocally be appointed to Friar Lawrence because of his underdeveloped plan, his misuse of important information, and his selfishness over the health and safety of the star crossed lovers. When lives are at stake many people become more cautious. People think out what they are going to say, and what actions they are taking. Friar Lawrence however is not one of these people. When Friar Lawrence makes a plan concerning how he will reunite the star crossed lovers, he misses out on very important details. Friar Lawrence says, “...And hither …show more content…
Maybe it’s because they’re selfish, or because they need to. However, Friar Lawrence does not have the right to be selfish. He put his own greedy self agenda over common sense. Friar Lawrence says, “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.”(2.3.96-99). Friar Lawrence took advantage of Romeo's’ new found love to become the hero of the town. Mending the relationship between the Capulet family and the Montagues would surely make him the talk of the prince, and the town. However he does not stop to think that it might be a little bit foolish to marry Romeo and Juliet. He knows that Romeo was just recently with Rosaline, therefore he could infer that Romeo had almost just met Juliet. Friar Lawrence knew that marrying Romeo and Juliet so early, and without the parents consent would be foolish. Though his own greedy self agenda took over for common sense, and created the beginnings of The Tragedy of Romeo and

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Friar Lawrence knew that the Capulet, and Montague families were enemies, but he went ahead and secretly married Romeo and Juliet. The friar believed if he married them the family's feud would end because of the marriage. Before he married the two he questioned Romeo if he actually loved Juliet, thinking if they loved each other then it was okay to marry them, but the friar knew that it was forbidden to marry two people from the fighting families. Friar Lawrence then questioned Romeo if he actually loved her because just the day before, Romeo loved Rosaline and said if he couldn't be with her he wouldn't be with anyone else. Romeo then fell in love faster than a blink of an eye.…

    • 684 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    During Friar Laurence’s Soliloquy, he is presented as a holy man who is trusted and respected by the other characters. Friar Laurence is a friend and advisor to Romeo and Juliet. As Friar Laurence is on his way to go inform the Montague’s on the tragic situation he contemplates on his options on what to do. “I can flee forever or get the parents of the dead Romeo and bring them to him in the tomb.” Friar Laurence conveys the idea that in every situation that there is a good and bad option in dealing with the problem.…

    • 263 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Instead of taking the advice of her nurse and going through with the marriage to Paris, Juliet completely disregards the practical suggestion and flees in a desperate search for a way to save her relationship with Romeo. Juliet’s lies and secrecy lead her to Friar Lawrence, the man who married the young couple just a day before. Friar Lawrence assists Juliet in creating her biggest and final act of deception. This lie ended the life of two innocent teenagers, but it also ended years of feuding between two…

    • 840 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Friar Lawrence was always supporting and helping out Romeo with everything. Friar Lawrence was the one who planned to secretly marry Romeo and Juliet . He believed that if Romeo and Juliet get married, it would bring the Montagues and Capulets all together and the fighting between them will stop. When Romeo and Juliet got married, things didn’t get better, it got so much worse. Tybalt didn’t want Romeo to be with his cousin…

    • 750 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Romeo And Juliet Saboteurs

    • 1496 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet even though there was a strong chance it would lead to terrible consequences. “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households’ rancor to pure love” Lawrence says to Romeo.(2.3.90-93). In this quote, he explains why he agrees to marry them. He has the intention of settling the two families feuds by having Romeo and Juliet married.…

    • 1496 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Friar Lawrence's Mistakes

    • 624 Words
    • 3 Pages

    In the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, there is one person to blame That person, I believe, is Friar Lawrence. Now i’m not blaming the whole tragedy on him. It’s just that some of his actions caused certain things to happen which eventually lead to the huge tragedy. For example, one of his many mistakes was agreeing to marry Romeo and Juliet. At first when Romeo asked this of him, he was against it because of how twenty-four hours ago he claimed to be madly and unconditionally in love with Rosaline.…

    • 624 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Essay On Friar Lawrence

    • 785 Words
    • 4 Pages

    However he was in a very good position to do this. First of all the church was very well trusted back then as well as powerful, second Friar Lawrence had, as we say, all the cards in his hand. This enabled him to take a risk and have a better chance it would coming out the way he wanted it to, and even if it didn’t he was still able to cover it…

    • 785 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence pled, “So smile the heavens upon this holy act / That after-hours with sorrow chide us not!” (2.6.1). He married the two in hopes of ending the feud between their families, but with reservations. Initially, he thought Romeo was still in a relationship with Rosaline. When he found out about Juliet, he thought that Romeo moved on from Rosaline to Juliet rather quickly.…

    • 1467 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    After Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet, he says this just before the scene ended, “Wisely, and Slow. They stumble who run fast (Shakespeare, 2.3.94).” The quote has evidence that Friar is to blame because he is telling Romeo to be careful in his marriage. Marriages are broke for those who rush it and don’t give it time. Friar agrees to marry them anyway even though it might not be a healthy marriage because he was desperate for the reunion of the Capulets and Montagues.…

    • 648 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    On Juliet’s balcony, she says she will marry Romeo, he just needs to send her word on what is happening. Romeo rushes to Friar asking if he would do the honors of marrying himself and Juliet. With convincing, eventually Friar Lawrence agrees to marry them by saying, “... Young waverer, come, go with me, in one respect I’ll thy assistant be” (II.iii.89-90). By agreeing to join the couple in marriage, Friar sets up every bad event that happens to Romeo and Juliet.…

    • 1209 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Friar Lawrence is suggesting loving moderately, not with too much haste and passion not with too little interest and emotion. He says this to Romeo, he is parenting him and parenting him well however, his wise and rational reasoning with Romeo, later are over powered by his spineless and cowardly actions, leaving Juliet alone in the tomb. Friar Lawrence fails Romeo and Juliet at their hour of greatest in the tomb. The Friar arrives but is to late save the lives of Paris and Romeo.…

    • 1464 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sometimes when youth need help they will go to a priest or a reverend, however in Romeo and Juliet by Willam Shakespeare Friar Lawrence proved this to be a bad idea. In this play there are many people to blame for everything that happens, but Friar Lawrence is most to blame because he married Romeo and Juliet, he had bad plans, and because he withheld information from Romeo and Juliet’s parents. Friar Lawrence’s first mistake was marrying Juliet to Romeo. He knows that they had just met the night before. Friar Lawrence also knows that the night Romeo and Juliet meet, Romeo was “in love” with Rosealine.…

    • 753 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Hold, daughter! I do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate an execution” (IV.i. 69-70). When Juliet came to him for help, instead of taking more time to find a solution, for Paris and Juliet’s dilemma, he felt pressured to help Juliet so that she would not commit suicide, and suggested the plan that led to Romeo and Juliet’s death. The Friar would have simply refused not to help the lovers anymore if he used his common sense, instead he succumbed to their desires, again, and formed an impulsive plan in his mind on the spit with out weighing the consequences. Friar Lawrence, who is displayed as a man of god, is actually just as impulsive as Romeo and…

    • 1127 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Romeo’s urgency causes the Friar to question his true feelings, especially after being so depressed from Rosaline refusing to be with him. After witnessing Romeo’s stubbornness, the Friar agrees to marry him, while issuing the warning of, “Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast”(411). Friar Lawrence enables this doomed marriage to take place, still without revealing their plans to the parents. This is perhaps one of the most devastating mistakes made by any character in the play.…

    • 757 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    By making Friar Lawrence categorize Romeo’s desires of yearning to marry Juliet when he claimed the same for his previous…

    • 812 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays