Romance is said to bring love and affection but when it is taken to its limit, it can lead to tragedy. This is the case in the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Two young star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, marry each other despite their families’ feuds. Their love brings them happiness and joy, but it causes obstacles which they have trouble overcoming. Desperation and conflicts appear when they want to be together, leading them to try to find solutions to their problems. Romeo and Juliet resort to Friar Laurence, the one who marries them, to figure out a plan to get them back together. Friar Laurence provides a plan of Juliet drinking a potion to fake her death, avoiding her father consult a marriage between
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Friar Laurence’s bad decision can be seen when he marries Romeo and Juliet for their families to get along and not for their love. “O, she knew well / Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell. / But come, young waverer, come go with me. / In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; / For this alliance may so happy prove / To turn your households' rancor to pure love” (II, iii, 87-92). Friar Laurence agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet in secret to stop the feud between both families. He knew that Romeo only loved Juliet out of her looks but he still married them, which shows his poor decision. Because he married Romeo and Juliet, it created a series of events leading to both of their deaths. Friar Laurence also makes a poor decision when he makes a plan to get Romeo and Juliet back together after Romeo gets banished from Verona. “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor drink thou off . . . A cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse . . . In the meantime, against thou shalt awake, / Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift . . . Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. / And this shall free thee from this …show more content…
One of Friar Laurence’s actions that lead to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is his advice to Romeo after finding out that Romeo wanted to marry Juliet as soon as possible. “Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast” (II, iii, 94). Friar Laurence’s advice foreshadows what happens in the play yet he does not stop this problem from occurring. He ignored his own advice of slowing down emotionally and physically because he does not calm or stop Romeo and Juliet in the end of the play from killing themselves. Their emotions took the best out of them and Friar Laurence allowed it to happen. Friar Laurence’s action of giving Juliet the potion and not seeing Juliet’s despair, in wanting the potion, causes the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. “Juliet: Give me, give me! O, tell me not of fear” (IV, i, 121)! Friar Laurence does not see Juliet’s desperation of wanting the potion. Juliet is a thirteen year old girl and Friar Laurence does not see through her emotionally unstable mind. Juliet is young and does not know how to control her emotions, so the emotions took over her mind and made her do things that someone may not do when they are emotionally stable. Friar Laurence does not take notice of this problem and allows her to take the potion. Friar Laurence’s action of sending a letter to Romeo and finding out that Friar John was not able to send the letter to Romeo is part of the reason why
Friar Laurence’s bad decision can be seen when he marries Romeo and Juliet for their families to get along and not for their love. “O, she knew well / Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell. / But come, young waverer, come go with me. / In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; / For this alliance may so happy prove / To turn your households' rancor to pure love” (II, iii, 87-92). Friar Laurence agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet in secret to stop the feud between both families. He knew that Romeo only loved Juliet out of her looks but he still married them, which shows his poor decision. Because he married Romeo and Juliet, it created a series of events leading to both of their deaths. Friar Laurence also makes a poor decision when he makes a plan to get Romeo and Juliet back together after Romeo gets banished from Verona. “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor drink thou off . . . A cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse . . . In the meantime, against thou shalt awake, / Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift . . . Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. / And this shall free thee from this …show more content…
One of Friar Laurence’s actions that lead to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is his advice to Romeo after finding out that Romeo wanted to marry Juliet as soon as possible. “Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast” (II, iii, 94). Friar Laurence’s advice foreshadows what happens in the play yet he does not stop this problem from occurring. He ignored his own advice of slowing down emotionally and physically because he does not calm or stop Romeo and Juliet in the end of the play from killing themselves. Their emotions took the best out of them and Friar Laurence allowed it to happen. Friar Laurence’s action of giving Juliet the potion and not seeing Juliet’s despair, in wanting the potion, causes the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. “Juliet: Give me, give me! O, tell me not of fear” (IV, i, 121)! Friar Laurence does not see Juliet’s desperation of wanting the potion. Juliet is a thirteen year old girl and Friar Laurence does not see through her emotionally unstable mind. Juliet is young and does not know how to control her emotions, so the emotions took over her mind and made her do things that someone may not do when they are emotionally stable. Friar Laurence does not take notice of this problem and allows her to take the potion. Friar Laurence’s action of sending a letter to Romeo and finding out that Friar John was not able to send the letter to Romeo is part of the reason why