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Friar Lawrence Responsible For Romeo And Juliet's Death

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A good trustworthy man of the town, a man of God a priest. Who just wanted to help two families stop fighting. He did as he intended, but in the process two young people in love had to die for it to work. Many of the characters in William Shakespeare’s tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, do things that contribute to the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. In my opinion Friar Lawrence was the most responsible for their deaths. The Friar married Romeo and Juliet, made ‘’poison” for Juliet to take, and didn’t get the letter to Romeo on time . It all started when Romeo first saw Juliet at a party that he crashed. They had spoke for bit and had fallen in love with each other. They had decided that the following day they would get married. Romeo ran as fast …show more content…

The letter was supposed to get to Romeo, telling him that Juliet wasn’t in fact dead. Telling him the whole plan that Friar had come up with. The letter had to get to Romeo on time so that he would be at the tomb when Juliet awoke. Meanwhile Juliet was “sleeping” Friar was sending the letter to Romeo when he ran into his old friend Friar John. Friar John was going to town near Mantua where Romeo was. Friar John was going to help the sick. Suddenly Friar Lawrence got the idea to just give the letter to Friar John, to give to Romeo since he would be going that way anyways. Afterward while Friar John was visiting the sick, he got stuck in coorentined, with the sick. So the letter never got to Romeo on time. Meanwhile Friar John was stuck in a town away with the letter holding the truth, someone else came and told Romeo that Juliet had died. (act 4 scene 4 # 2-29 ) Romeo went to her tomb found her dead and killed himself because he thought that his love had died. Seconds after Juliet had awoken and found her love dead next to her. She couldn’t go on without Romeo so she to killed

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Friar Lawrence is the main one at fault for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. In the tale of Romeo and Juliet, you can tell that that Friar Lawrence played a big role in each of their life’s. When Romeo and Juliet first came about they immediately fell in love. It shows this by saying, “Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear”.

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The tale of Romeo and Juliet ends with the death of the two lovers. But there is a reason behind their passing. Friar Lawrence, a priest in Verona, had a big part of the play, and may be the reason for Romeo and Juliet to lay still forever in their graves. The friar was the one that devised the plan to fake Juliet’s death, but ran away in cowardice when he was afraid.

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While he had good intentions, his plans were not executed fully. Friar Laurence was the one of the first people Romeo would go to when expressing his problems. Romeo informed him about Juliet, and the friar told him he was moving too quickly and “violent delights have violent ends” (II,6,9). Friar Laurence advised him to “love moderately” (II,6,14-15) Even after that crucial advice, the friar agreed to marry them with the desire to bring the two families together and end the feud. The marriage was yet another secret Romeo and Juliet kept leading to their demise.

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Friar John was not mentioned in the story until the last act, but he was tasked by Friar Lawrence to deliver an especially important letter to Romeo that housed the secret plan, “I writ to Romeo that he should hither come as this dire night to help take her from her borrowed grave, being time in potion’s force should cease” (5.3.257-262). This piece of evidence explains how the letter contained all the information that Romeo needed to know about his plan including the fact that Juliet is not actually dead. This plan would have worked seamlessly if it were not for the fact that Fryer John failed to deliver the letter to Romeo before he was told by his servant that Juliet had “died.” “I could not send it-Here it is again, nor get a messenger to bring it to thee, so fearful were they of infection” (5.2.14-16). In this quote, the reader is informed that the letter did not make it to Romeo and that he gave the letter back to Fryer Lawrence after his lazy attempt at delivering it.

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