Romeo and Juliet

When you eat healthy it gives you energy and keeps you strong. On the other hand, if you eat poorly you can have health problems and could possibly die. Friar Laurence from Romeo and Juliet is much like eating only he does a little of both. William Shakespeare gives us a character like Friar to help show how certain choices (even if for good intentions) can have bad consequences.

Friar Laurence’s decisions although meaning well are not very thought out and lead to many different tragedies in the play. For example, Seeing Romeo and Juliet in love he cannot

resist but to marry them “In respect I’ll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove.” The Friar chooses to go along with Romeo and Juliet and agrees to marry them. He does this knowing very well that things could turn out very wrong not only for Romeo and Juliet, but for him too. By choosing to live in the day as it comes and not think about what might happen in the future, it seems as though he’s not putting much effort into the young couples love. In addition to marrying them, he starts running out of ideas to keep the two together so he offers Juliet a potion. “Of rather that to marry County Paris, thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself than it is likely thou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame….” By choosing to help Juliet fake her death he is putting her at risk for even greater things. However, he’s not thinking about any of that. All he’s thinking about is the feud between the two families and how he could get it to end. So therefore by the Friar making the selection to marry Romeo and Juliet and help Juliet fake her death it only seems to be making things shoddier for everybody.

The consequences of the Friars Choices would result in tragedy and sorrow for both of the houses and him. By, him