In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, there is a morally gray character. Friar Lawrence is a morally gray person who appears to be the only morally normal persona in the entirety of the tragedy. The only relationship he has with any of the two families, of Montague and Capulet, is that of Romeo Montague who is his student and apprentice.
The relationship between Romeo and Friar Lawrence is very akin to the relationship Merlin has with Arthur in the Disney movie “The Sword in the Stone”. The apprenticeship that Romeo has with Friar Lawrence has gone beyond just a student to teacher relationship. In both stories the teacher, or in this case Friar, is an older wizened man who decides to take on a protégé. In both cases, Merlin and Friar Lawrence become good and trusted friends for which Arthur and Romeo, respectively, can talk to about their feelings, doubts, and problems.
Friar Lawrence may be a morally gray man who may be only helping Romeo for his own benefit but, as the audience is shown, Friar Lawrence also has Romeo’s trust and even marries Romeo and Juliet after Romeo asks him to. The audience also has some evidence of Friar Lawrence being a logical rock weathered and worn
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Friar Lawrence helps Juliet fake her death so that she doesn’t have to marry County Paris. This also helps the Friar in that he doesn’t have to marry Juliet to a different man after she has married Romeo. This would help the Friar keep his credibility and priesthood intact so that he may continue preaching and teaching about the word of God, but this could also be the Friar wanting to help his apprentice Romeo therefore as the audience wonders if Friar Lawrence was helping to save his career as a viable preacher or to help his friend, Romeo, who needed assistance, as well as Romeo’s wife Juliet, be with her husband after she escapes marring Paris and leaving to Mantua with