Fate Of Juliet In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet
Love can be crazy, unexpected, new…fairytales always show the happy ever afters where the villain dies and love prevails. But not for Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare, writer of Romeo and Juliet, takes two ill-fated lovers, who try to overcome their fate. Throughout their story, Romeo and Juliet experience luck, fate, and conation. The story shows the short love story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, kin of two opposing families in Verona. Though many factors have affected the outcome of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence is the main cause of their death.
Friar Laurence wants to keep Romeo and Juliet’s love a secret to fulfill his yearn for praise. In Act 2 Scene 3, after the balcony scene where Romeo goes to meet Juliet after the Capulet party, Romeo …show more content…
However, with Friar Laurence’s desire to act as the hero who ends the Capulet-Montague feud, he decided to marry them in secrecy and have them announce their love to the public in the future: “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be: For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households’ rancor to pure love,” (II.3 92-93). Friar Laurence is agreeing to bind them together through matrimony, thus allowing Romeo and Juliet to love and hopefully ending the feud, making Friar Laurence the hero. He wants to transform the Capulet and Montague’s hatred to love through Romeo and Juliet’s love, in essence, he is using them. However, Friar Laurence’s head was too filled with dreams of having glory and praise, he didn’t fully think his plan through. Furthermore, he didn’t think about the mishaps that can happen, therefore causing Romeo and Juliet’s death. In Act 2 Scene 6, Romeo and Juliet meet at Friar’s cellar to get married. But, Romeo and Juliet don’t know Friar Laurence’s actual thoughts in mind: “Come, come with me, and we will make short work, For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone Till holy church incorporate two in one,”
Friar Laurence wants to keep Romeo and Juliet’s love a secret to fulfill his yearn for praise. In Act 2 Scene 3, after the balcony scene where Romeo goes to meet Juliet after the Capulet party, Romeo …show more content…
However, with Friar Laurence’s desire to act as the hero who ends the Capulet-Montague feud, he decided to marry them in secrecy and have them announce their love to the public in the future: “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be: For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households’ rancor to pure love,” (II.3 92-93). Friar Laurence is agreeing to bind them together through matrimony, thus allowing Romeo and Juliet to love and hopefully ending the feud, making Friar Laurence the hero. He wants to transform the Capulet and Montague’s hatred to love through Romeo and Juliet’s love, in essence, he is using them. However, Friar Laurence’s head was too filled with dreams of having glory and praise, he didn’t fully think his plan through. Furthermore, he didn’t think about the mishaps that can happen, therefore causing Romeo and Juliet’s death. In Act 2 Scene 6, Romeo and Juliet meet at Friar’s cellar to get married. But, Romeo and Juliet don’t know Friar Laurence’s actual thoughts in mind: “Come, come with me, and we will make short work, For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone Till holy church incorporate two in one,”