Who Is Friar Lawrence To Blame In Romeo And Juliet?

Two families have been left heartbroken in Verona due to the loss of their beloved children. Some blame the two families, some blame Romeo or Juliet, I blame Friar Lawrence. Friar Lawrence marries Romeo and Juliet behind their parents' backs, puts both of the children’s life’s at risk, and throughout the whole story of Romeo and Juliet he is very careless and makes lots of mistakes. All of this started when Romeo Montague sneaks into a Capulet masquerade and meets the Capulet's daughter, Juliet, who he later finds out is supposed to be his sworn enemy “Is she a capsule? O dear, my account! My life is my foe's debt.”(I, v, 117). Even though they are sworn enemies, they still pursue one another, they decide to ask the Friar to assist them in

The Friar agrees to marry them, thinking it would end the feud between the two families. Technically, he succeeded in ending the feud, but not for the reason he wanted it too. Later on, we find out that lord Capulet has planned for Juliet to marry Count Paris, not knowing that she has already married Romeo. Juliet doesn’t want to marry Count Paris and she doesn’t know what she can do to get out of the arranged marriage, so The Friar comes up with a plan. His plan is rather smart but very risky “Take thou this vial/being then in bed, and this distilling liquor drink thou off”(IV, i, 93-94). He plans for her to drink a potion that will make her appearance seem like she’s dead, he says the potion will make her sleep for two-and-forty fours. He plans for Romeo to be there when she awakes so he can get her out, and run away to Mantua. Due to The Friar's miscalculation of the plan and lack of communication with Friar John and Romeo, the plan fails. The friar doesn’t tell Romeo of the plan he has come up with “Her body sleeps in Capel’s monument/And her immortal part with angels live/I saw her laid low in her kindred vault/and presently took post to tell you”(V, i,