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Friar Lawrence's Irresponsible Mistakes

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Friar Laurence is a key piece in the story of Romeo and Juliet. He is like a father figure to Romeo, proven by the fact that he’s the first person Romeo goes to whenever he is seeking advice. The two star crossed lovers trust the Friar very much, most likely because of his title. Friar Laurence took an irreplaceable role in Romeo and Juliet’s lives that he did not fully live up to. Friar Laurence’s actions sequentially killed Romeo and Juliet. He made not just one, but four irresponsible mistakes that lead to the pair’s death. Marrying Romeo and Juliet was a recipe for disaster. Friar Laurence didn't have permission from either of the families to marry the two and was fully aware of the quarrel between the families. He was also fully aware of the plan to marry Paris and Juliet. After he married them he acted as a counsellor to the pair. He was especially involved after Romeo murdered Paris, he helped Romeo hide which is comparable to harbouring a fugitive. He then created a big elaborate plan to get the two back together instead of simply taking Juliet to Mantua. …show more content…

He gave Juliet, a suicidal and unstable fourteen year old girl, a potion to make her appear dead simply because she did not want to marry Paris. Had he simply taken her to Mantua instead of giving her the potion she would have never been put in the situation to kill herself. Friar Laurence displays his irresponsibility when he gives Juliet the vial saying, “if...thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself...take thou this vial...no warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.” (IV,I,72,93,98). He’s fully aware she’s willing to die for Romeo and still acts irresponsibly and makes rash decisions when arranging and carrying out the

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If Friar didn’t marry them it would of not started the chain reactions of events that occur next. The play ends with three tragic deaths; those including being Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence is mostly to blame for the tragic events in Romeo and Juliet, because of he did things in secret, not communicating clearly, and not executing his plans. The first reason why Friar Laurence is to blame is because he married Romeo and Juliet.

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More specifically, by providing Juliet with an unusual potion, encouraging the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, and failing to effectively communicate his intent,

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In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence is the most to blame for the death of the young couple because of his poor decision making and uncommunicative planning. Friar Laurence is the most to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death because of his poor decision making. First, Friar Laurence agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet without their parent’s permission. Friar Laurence said “but come, young waverer, come go with me. In one respect I'll thy assistant be;” (Shakespeare,1031).

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William Shakespeare portrays Friar Lawrence as unrealistic, dishonest, and irresponsible. In Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, two main characters Romeo and Juliet, who are supposed to be sworn enemies but end up falling in love, follow a tragic love story. Due to their families ongoing feud and dishonest acts of trusted people, they can not be together, so they kill themselves because they feel as if they can not be apart from each other. Friar Lawrence is most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he is unrealistic, dishonest, and irresponsible.

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Throughout the play "Romeo and Juliet," Friar Laurence is seen as a sympathetic character who tries to help the young couple. However, his actions and decisions ultimately lead to their tragic demise. The Friar's misguided advice and reckless behavior are the primary reasons why Romeo and Juliet died. Firstly, Friar Laurence should never have agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet in secret.

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Have you ever been pushed to make a decision? Is there someone in your life who acts before thinking? In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, two love-struck teenagers were desperately in need of proper advice from trustworthy adults to prevent disaster. Friar Lawrence was one of the main characters who offered poor advice to Romeo and Juliet throughout their misadventure. First, he married Romeo and Juliet quickly after they met without their parents’ knowledge.

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The Nurse and Friar Laurence is to blame. Friar Laurence was to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, because he married the two lovers secretly, failed to deliver the letter, and abandoned Juliet at tomb. To begin, Friar Laurence considered to be a holy man according to the the parents of the two lovers. Therefore conveying that the two families believed in him. He wedded the two innocent lovers without talking to their parents, creating chaos within their lives.

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He wants Juliet to marry paris not caring of her wishes or what she wants. Her parents are being selfish and only thinking of themselves instead of Juliet. Not only does he force her to wed to Paris, but moves the wedding up. “‘Send for the County. Go tell him of this.

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Friar Lawrence is most to blame for all the deaths in Romeo and Juliet. Because of the choices that Friar Lawrence made and his negligence to Romeo and Juliet's haste, many of the characters died. When Romeo first came to the Friar and asked him to marry himself and Juliet, the Friar new that doing so would only be encouraging a hasty decision, however he acted anyway. Friar Lawrence himself even said “Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast” (2.4.102) This shows that even though he new that marrying the young couple would be a hasty decision that would lead to tragedy, he did so anyway.

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The first reason that Friar Laurence is the blame for Romeo and Juliet’s suicide is that he married them secretly. “Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell. 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. ”(2.3.88-92).

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As they arrange a marriage behind everyone’s back, everything seems to be testing them; including a fight that broke out and ended in Tybalt’s murder and Romeo being banished from his hometown, Verona. Juliet could not go without being with her love, Romeo, and quickly had to find a way to be with him before her other marriage that her father arranged for her took place. As the friar arranges a plan for the two star-crossed lovers to reunite, things don’t work out the way they’re supposed to and end in the deaths of both characters. In Shakespeare’s, “Romeo and Juliet” Friar Laurence is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths because he is devious and has a poor planning ability.

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Friar was only trying to bind the two families together and out of their feud, but honestly, he did not consider the risk factors. Friar Lawrence also gave Juliet the potion that did not kill her, but clearly played a key role in both the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. When she took the potion, she was out cold, no heartbeat or anything. Good potion, it worked and she woke up later. But Romeo actually thought Juliet was dead.

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An error within an action is a mistake, a mistake is a thing that most people will regret in the future. Friar Laurence as well as Romeo made many mistakes but some of them went overboard in William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. It wasn't fate that led to the death of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet it was the mistakes of Romeo and Friar Laurence. As in the mistake of marrying the two lovers and planning a risky scheme of drinking a sleeping potion from the Friar or even the murder of Tybalt by Romeo Montague. The tragedy in this play is caused by the main actions of Friar Lawrence and Romeo, and not by fate.

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The first mistake that most people would assume Romeo made was requesting Friar Laurence to marry him and Juliet “Hence will I to my ghostly friar’s close cell,/ His help to crave and my dear hap to tell” (II,ii,191-192). Romeo’s supposed mistake is rushing into the idea of marriage and that’s how he messes up, but this action would not have been a mistake if it weren’t for Friar Laurence who agrees to marry them in secrecy. The second misconception about Romeo is that it’s his fault that Tybalt and Mercutio died, and it is true that Romeo says “Either thou or I, or both, must go with him” (III,i,91), before killing Tybalt. Although if Friar Laurence had never married Romeo and Juliet, Romeo would’ve stood up for himself against Tybalt and at least one death could’ve been avoided.

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“I fear, too early; for my mind misgives some consequences, yet hangs in the stars.” Says Romeo, a character from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In this quote Romeo claims he has a premonition that something bad will happen before he goes to the Capulet party, this party is where he will meet Juliet, his soon to be lover. As Romeo and Juliet’s relationship progressed, it came to a short end when the two lovers died. Friar Laurence, the character who married the two lovers, takes the blame for the deaths of the two. I believe that Friar Laurence was not responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because they chose to die, Romeo and Juliet were reckless and acted without thinking, and Romeo set himself up for failure.

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