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In William Shakespeare 's classic play, Romeo and Juliet, there are two families that have a bitter rivalry but, there is a little love in the air that ends with severe depression. There is one person to blame for letting the depression get worse. Friar Lawrence thinks that everyone should like each other and not dislike anyone. He also makes potions to change people and not letting time change them. Friar Lawrence is undoubtedly to blame for the tragic, depressing events that unfold the “loving” play, Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence tries to make everyone like each other even though it is impossible to like everyone. He dislikes how the Capulets and Montagues are always fighting. Romeo Montague came to Friar Lawrence to, marry Juliet Capulet. Friar is the priest so you have to come …show more content…

Lord Capulet cannot be blamed because it is human nature to dislike someone. It is nearly impossible to not dislike someone in life. He also could not be to blame because he was not even a huge deal in the play. The only reason you need him in there is because, Juliet needs a mother and a father to be born. If he like ran away or died when Juliet the play would still be on the same level of dispar. If we were to remove Friar Lawrence there would be a happy ending, because Romeo would have got cheated on and then he’d move on to a different girl. The tragedies that happened in Romeo and Juliet are truly dark and depressing. Friar Lawrence is to blame for these events. He tried to change the feelings of people even though he was no professional who knew how the brain worked. He should have not used potions to change the way of someone’s life. There is medicine out there to change people but, it takes time for it to work. They always did say that time changed people so maybe it is not the medicine it is the

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Though he respects tradition, he allows Romeo and Juliet to elope. The Friar has much wisdom but decides to only give warnings, which is unrecognizable by star struck lovers. When Romeo first came to the Friar and asked him to marry them he responded with “ Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast” (scene 3 act 2 line 96). Friar Lawrence was trying to warn Romeo of this fairytale love story; but Romeo had his head so far in the clouds he would never be able to think clearly for himself. This is where the Friar should have stuck to his more traditional roots and try to talk some sense into Romeo.

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When one thinks of a reckless character from Romeo and Juliet they’d think either Romeo or Juliet. When they consider who is the most fallible it is either Romeo or Juliet, but the most reckless and fallible character is the presumed holy and astute Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence is the one who had the most impact on causing most of the characters’ death because of his influence on the whole city, how he made mistakes in his plans, and had an even bigger impact than Romeo himself. Mistakes are made by everyone, but when people look up to you and hold you to a high standard, most people don’t expect errors from you. That is the situation for Friar Laurence and the city of Verona.

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Friar Lawrence was the one to blame throughout the entire story. Although Friar Lawrence was just trying to help throughout the whole story, he was just causing problems that led to Romeo and Juliets death. The one problem was just miscommunication between Friar Lawrence, Friar John, and Romeo. “Who bar my letter, then, to Romeo?”(S.S, pg. 470).

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