Friar Lawrence's Responsible For The Death Of Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet was a play written by William Shakespeare, in which it portrays how two teenagers fall in love. This couple must hide that they are together because their families have a feud against each causing them not being able to be together. Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin did not like Romeo he tried to fight him but ending in Tybalt’s death and Romeos banishment. Lord Capulet was speaking with a man named Paris so he could marry his daughter Juliet. When Juliet and Romeo cannot be together they take their own lives. Friar Laurence bears most responsibility for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he marries them in secret, causing friar having to lie to the families, then the friar made a plan for Juliet so she could end up with Romeo.

Romeo met with the friar to discuss marriage with him but the friar knowing Romeo he knows he just got over a girl he loved. The friar had Romeo that “these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die…. Therefore, love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow” (2.6.9-15). If the friar knew it was a bad I why did he agree “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households' rancor to pure love” (2.3.90). The friar knew that if they were to end up together with only know each other for a short time it would end up horribly. Even though he found an excuse to marry them he still should have realized the consequence that it could come

It was a day before Juliet was supposed to marry Paris, she went to visit friar to discuss what they were going to do to prevent from marrying Paris. When she went Paris was there discussing the ceremony for the marriage as she walked in he was calling her his wife to be mean while Juliet was saying she would rather marry the enemy then him. When the Friar and Juliet talked she was talking on how she was not going to be with him when she wants to be with only one Romeo. Juliet was only going to be with one person “If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, do thou but call my resolution wise, and with this knife I’ll help it presently” (4.1.53-55). She was convinced that only by killing herself she could rest in peace, yes the friar said that wasn’t the way but he did not do anything to prevent it instead he said “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off, when presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse” (4.1.96-99). The friar did not do much to stop it but support doing the wrong thing when in reality he could have gone to the family when she threatens to kill herself. Also instead of tell her to do the right thing and tell the truth he continues to support her with the lying especially at the point when she thought of killing