Friar Lawrence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Friar Lawrence’s seemingly good intentions to unite the houses prompts the deaths of many people of both the Montague and Capulet houses. To begin, the Friar is approached by Romeo and Juliet, who want to get married after only three hours of meeting and he decides that a union between the two would end the everlasting feud between the Montagues and Capulets: “Do thou but close our hands with holy words,/Then love devouring death do what he dare--/It is enough I may but call her mine” (2.6.6-8). The fateful, love-devouring deaths of Romeo and Juliet are, in part, caused by the Friar’s imprudent decision to marry them secretly because it requires a complicated plan to quietly reunite them, which eventually causes their demise. Next, the Friar’s