How important is the character of Friar Lawrence to the plot and the dramatic quality of Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet?

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Romeo & Juliet

How important is the character of Friar Lawrence to the plot and the dramatic quality of Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet?

Romeo and Juliet is a fifteenth century play set in Verona, by William Shakespeare, the play is about two star crossed lovers, both come from families which have an ancient feud between them, the Capulet and the Montagues.

The character of Friar Lawrence is very important to the play. He is involved in three curtail events in the play, he marries Romeo and Juliet in secret because he knows that there families would disagree, he gives Juliet a sleeping poison to fake here death, then leaves her in the family tomb alone still not recovered from the sleeping poison.

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Romeo and Juliet feel in love at first sight in a Capulet’s party, so Romeo asks the Friar to help him and Juliet to get married in secret because both families would disagree. So Friar agreed to marry them.

This is unusual because as a man as the Christian church in the fifteenth century, he is expected to uphold the Christian values. Friar Lawrence knows that both families would disagree he justifies it by saying “for alliance may so happy prove/ to turn your households’ rancour to pure love.”

Friar believes that it will bring both Montagues and capulets ...

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