Friar Laurence is a wise man who understands and knows how to use the things around him in a way to get the things he wants. One of which is to end the feud between the Montagues and Capulets once and for all, so they will never fight each other ever again and end lives that were lost only because of this feud. Of course solving such a feud is not easy, but luckily for him Romeo and Juliet practically served him the solution on a silver platter. The solution was to marry the two, not that this was Romeo’s and Juliet’s intention as they wanted to get married due to love while Friar thought of this marriage differently. The reason for him to have such a belief was because he believed that love was strong and would unite people as we can see him saying “So …show more content…
Unfortunately, Friar does not get to see whether this marriage would repair the relationship between the Montagues and Capulets as the tragic events of the play unfold, leading to the death of Romeo and Juliet.Despite that, the marriage probably would not have solved the feud anyway, at least not in the short-term because we can see that even though Romeo was being kind to Tybalt, he did not return the same treatment and killed Mercutio when he could back in Act 3, Scene 1. This shows us that they would not take the marriage well in the beginning and it would probably worsen the relationship between the two families. However, after awhile they would probably reconcile due to the fact that the heads of the families genuinely care about their kids as we can see Romeo’s parents worrying about him being depressed in the early parts of the play, “Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, we would as willingly give cure as know.” (1.1.144-145) and saying that if they knew what was wrong with him, they’d do anything they could to help him. Juliet's parents also wanted to give her a choice about who she was going to marry, “But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; my will to her consent is but a part.” (1.