Friar Lawrence's Use Of Monologue In Romeo And Juliet

Shakespeare uses monologue, in Romeo and Juliet, to reveal how attentive Friar Lawrence was to portray that one would try to direct another, who has gone astray, toward the right path. After the prince declared Romeo is banished from Verona, Romeo was crying “tears [that were] womanish” about his banishment on the floor of Friar Lawrence’s chamber (Romeo and Juliet 3.3.120). Friar thought Romeo had matured after his mishap with Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, but saw that he was an “unseemingly woman in a seeming man”(3.3.122). He then began to understand that Romeo’s “wild acts” were caused by “the unreasonable fury of the beast” inside him (3.3.120-21). Friar couldn’t believe that Romeo had chosen to “[kill] the love which [he] hast vowed to cherished” and he reminded him that “[he], the dear love [had sworn], but was a hollow perjury”(3.3.138-39). He knew that Romeo has a “noble shape, but [with] a form of wax, digressing from the valor of a man”(3.3.136-37).

In order for Romeo to understand that he did not made the situation any better, Shakespeare's used oxymoron as the harsh truth to describe Romeo’s attitude that Friar saw. Friar was disappointed when Romeo was crying like it’s the end of the world, while he didn’t realized that he had tied the knot with Juliet recently. Romeo wanted to run away from his problem by killing himself, but Friar was able to guide him to go on with his life and plan a nice future with Juliet. Friar was able to give Romeo a plan because he didn’t want Romeo to waste his second chance. Friar’s advice illustrated the strong bond that he and Romeo had, in order to reveal