Friar Lawrence Quotes

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Friar Laurence is the one to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he encouraged the relationship for his own personal gain, doesn’t account for anything with the plan going wrong, and fails to decently execute his poorly-assembled backup plan. One of the reasons why Friar Laurence is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths because he encourages their relationship for his own personal gain. This is proven when, after Romeo asks him to marry them, the Friar says “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be/For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your households’ rancour to pure love” (II.iii.93-95). In this quote, Friar Laurence is saying that, by marrying Romeo and Juliet, there’s a chance that this will be an olive branch to both of their families, therefore resolving the decades-long feud. By resolving the feud between the Montagues and Capulets and being the one who married Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence would be regarded as a sort of hero within Verona. This is why he agrees to marry them. This only goes to show how Friar Laurence only does this for his own personal …show more content…

This is shown when, after learning the Friar John never got the letter to Romeo, he says “Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood/The letter was not nice, but full of charge/Of dear import; and the neglecting it/May do much danger” (V.ii.17-19). In the quote, Friar Laurence is telling Friar John that the letter was of the highest importance, and that it not being delivered is going to cause a lot of bad things to possibly happen. This is one of the things that went wrong in Friar Laurence’s plan that he didn’t take into account could happen. By not taking any possible complications into account, Romeo thinks that Juliet is dead and kills himself next to her so-called ‘dead’