Romeo And Juliet Mentor Quotes

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Although the Friar attempts to be a mentor to Romeo by advising him to behave more carefully, he eventually fails both Romeo and Juliet because he doesn’t take his own advice, and then advises them to lie, contributing to their deaths ultimately failing as a mentor.
Towards the beginning of the play, the Friar is introduced appearing to be a good mentor that cares heavily for Romeo and wants all the best for Romeo and his family. The night after meeting Juliet, Romeo comes to the Friar in order to marry him and Juliet, “Benedicite! What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? /Young son, it argues a distemper’d head/ So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed:/ Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,/ And where

Because Romeo is breaking down and crying about being banished, the Friar is honest with Romeo and decided to try to get him to man up.“The unreasonable fury of a beast./Unseemly woman in a seeming man,/And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!/Thou hast amazed me. By my holy order,/I thought thy disposition better tempered.” When Romeo is breaking down and crying, the Friar smacks some sense into him, telling him to man up, as a mentor would, showing that the Friar had good intentions for Romeo as a mentor. When Romeo is talking about marrying Juliet, the Friar is concerned about the amount of time they have known each other, and advises Romeo to slow down. “These violent delights have violent ends/And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,/Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey/Is loathsome in his own deliciousness/And in the taste confounds the appetite./Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so./Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”(2.6.10-15) That quote shows that the Friar initially had good intentions as a mentor for Romeo, as he was giving him smart advice to slow down with Juliet, to make sure that he loved her. Right before marrying Romeo and Juliet, the Friar decides that he doesn’t want anything happening to them because he needs them to stay safe before married.“Come, come with me, and we will

After Juliet Threatens to kill herself, instead of telling the parents, the Friar resorts to giving terrible advice to Juliet, contributing to her death and failed plan. “Take thou this vial, being then in bed,And this distillèd liquor drink thou off,/When presently through all thy veins shall run/A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse/Shall keep his native progress, but surcease./No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest./The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade” (4.1.96-102) When the Friar offers one of his last pieces of advice, he once again dishes out terrible advice, instructing Juliet to literally fake her death, all for Romeo. After admitting that it was his fault for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, the Friar decides to also accept any punishments for killing them, actually doing something wise for once. “Her Nurse is privy. And if aught in this/Miscarried by my fault, let my old life/Be sacrificed some hour before his time/Unto the rigor of severest law.”(5.3.280-285)This quote fits because even though the Friar attempted to mentor Romeo and Juliet throughout the book, he gives up here and decides to take the blame for their deaths, and decides to accept any punishment bestowed upon him. Not only did the Friar want to be punished for their deaths, but he also