Romeo And Juliet Friar Lawrence Analysis

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A pair of star crossed lovers… and Friar Lawrence. Throughout “Romeo and Juliet” both Romeo and Juliet go to Friar Lawrence for advice. He influences how the story plays out and even ends. For example, he marries Romeo and Juliet, he gives Juliet the potion to appear dead so she doesn’t have to marry Paris, and he instructs Romeo to hide in Mantua, etc. Friar Lawrence is first introduced into the story after the famous balcony scene and Romeo goes to him to ask him to marry them. Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet and does so later that day, but why does he agree? Act two scene three explains why he marries them in one simple statement and it says, “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove, To