To begin, the Friar impulsively complies to marry Romeo to Juliet in secret, believing their union might be able to put an end to the long-standing family feud.“For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your “households’ rancor to pure love”(2.3.90) Though the friar’s intentions were charitable, they were unquestionably missteps along a pathway to unbridled tragedy. If the two had not been married the written tragedies could not have developed. When Tybalt challenged Romeo to a fight, Romeo, now being related to him, refused to fight, saying, “I do protest, I never injure thee, but love thee better than thou canst devise till thou shalt know the reason of my love: and so, good Capulet,--which name I tender as dearly as my own-- be satisfied”
