Friar Lawrence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet were two innocent children looking for any advice that would further increase the chance of them being together. They were willing to listen to anything anyone said and Friar Lawrence took advantage of that in order to end the feud between their families. All though he did succeed it was at the cost of these the lives of these children. Friar Lawrence is to take the complete fault of their deaths. Despite everything that happened, Friar Lawrence did not plan for the deaths and he did not physically kill them so he should be let go with restrictions on his job to further prevent an incident like this.
Friar Lawrence knew of the great feud between the families and the trouble it was causing throughout the kingdom. He saw the love between Romeo and Juliet as a way to end this feud and bring peace to the two families. His intentions were obviously good. He believed that if he married these two children that the two families would have to come together and end their feud but he did not thoroughly think through the consequences of this marriage. Part of his job as a friar is to only approve good long lasting marriages and …show more content…
On one hand her true love killed her beloved cousin but if her love had not killed her cousin her cousin would have killed her love. After a lot of crying and yelling she decided she still wants to be with Romeo. She then goes to Friar Lawrence again seeking help. He realized that it was his fault marrying these two and that he had to fix it so he came up with an elaborate plan to get the two together. Once again his attentions were purely good but it did not turn out the way he wanted too. Because of a plague the letter containing the details of the plan were not delivered to Romeo and Romeo thought that Juliet had died which had also left Romeo heart broken. Friar Lawrence once again tried to do good but it ended in