The Friar Lawrence In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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The grim love story of Romeo and Juliet was written and directed by the great William Shakespeare. This play takes place in Verona Italy, within 5 days this story takes the lives of 6 people. The Capulets and the Montagues, the families of Juliet and Romeo. Both there's families experience the loss of their children and others. This is because of their immense hate for one another, maybe if this feud was not in place this whole story would not have happened. Many people could be to blame for this tragedy, but the three people who caused these two star cross loves to take their own lives is, the friar Lawrence himself, the Nurse, and lastly the creepy Paris.

In the play Friar Lawrence played the role of a priest and a friar. Being that the friar holds theses high roles, is one the reasons he holds such a big part in why Romeo and Juliet took there own lives. When Romeo went to the Friar to ask him to marry romeo and juliet he stated “wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast” (2.3.101). This states that he told romeo to slow down and think about it, but in the end Romeo did not and he still insisted that the frier marry them. Friar Lawrence ended up marrying them, but he knew that he shouldn't of done it and they
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Where Friar Laurence, the Nurse, and Paris. In the end if Friar stuck to what he thought was right and just said no to Romeo about marrying him to juliet with in the few hours of them meeting maybe some things would have played out differently. On the contrary if the Nurse got involved and did not flip on Juliet she would have most definitely of been able to help her. Lastly if Paris would have stopped being so persistent in wanting to marry juliet and took a step back Lord Capulet would not have been so inclined to marry them, now if this event would not have taken place maybe Romeo and juliet would still be alive to tell of there quite unusual love

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