In William Shakespeare’s original play, Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers are born into families who have had a conflict develop between them. Who is the person that has the most impact on the households' feud ending? The person with the most impact on ending the feud is Friar Laurence. Friar who is both the Montague’s and Capulet’s Holy Man and he is the main contributor to the end of this feud. Friar Laurence thinks it best if he marries Romeo and Juliet in the hope that it will end the family’s feud. The text states, “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,” (Shakespeare II.iii.89-92). The excerpt from the play proves …show more content…
The play states, “'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife/Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that/Which the commission of thy years and art/Could to no issue of true honor bring./Be not so long to speak. I long to die/If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy,” (Shakespeare vi.i.64-69). A reader can understand here that Juliet is forcing Friar to make a plan to get her out of marrying Paris, but if he doesn’t then she’ll kill herself. If she had agreed to marry Paris none of this would’ve happened. Also, the Friar didn’t have to agree and make the plan, that may give him more time to get the word out that Romeo and Juliet are in love and that may end the conflict between the families would be over. The play reads, “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger,/This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.” (Shakespeare VI.iii.82-83). The audience can conclude that Juliet has killed herself. The feud may have ended if Juliet came back with the Friar had told the Prince, her parents, and Lord Montague about her and Romeo being married. Life could’ve been different and the feud could have been over anyway. Therefore, the Friar is the person who has the most impact on the end of the