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 together.
A gentleman goes by the name of Paris asks Lord Capulet for his daughter’s hand in marriage, so Lady Capulet tells Juliet about it, Juliet feels very upset because she is already married to Romeo but her parents don’t know about it. Juliet speaks to Friar Lawrence about it, gives her a sleeping poison to fake her deaths that’s the only way of not marring Paris, Romeo hears that she is dead but he doesn’t know the plan.
Friar Lawrence does another vital mistake, he leaves Juliet alone in the family tomb, so Romeo hears of her deaths, he kills Paris, then goes to see Juliet he thinks that she is dead so he kills himself by drinking a poison. Juliet wakes up then sees him dead beside her, she’s very upset and confused in that age, so she drinks the last drops of the poison, but it wasn’t enough, so she stabs her self with a dagger.
Friar Lawrence finds their bodies; he doesn’t want to be seen by Juliet’s family so he abandons their bodies.
Friar Lawrence is a very important character in the play “Romeo and Juliet”. I have shown all his involvements in the main events, he is the cause of the lover’s death and the bringing the families loses and grief. He marries Romeo and Juliet in secret, then gives Juliet the sleeping poison to fake her death and that’ the only way of avoiding to marry Paris, then he leaves Juliet alone at the family tomb. This drama is which gives the audience the excitement, and also carries the plot forward. The Friar is a man of the Christian church, I don’t think it was right for him to marry them in secret despite their families feud, he should of advised them to be honest and tells the families.