The Consequences Of Friar Lawrence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

In Romeo and Juliet, the characters make many impulsive decisions, one of them being Friar Lawrence who creates careless plans which are not properly thought out. Friar acts without thinking about the consequences, leading to misconception and causing dreadful outcomes. Friar Lawrence should be giving smart thought out plans to Juliet considering he is a priest (he should think of another way of helping Juliet without watching the lovers take their lives), he does not follow through with his plan to tell Romeo and instead sends a messenger to deliver the message without knowing the outcome of it being delivered or not and lastly, Friar should have kept a lookout and watched out for anything that weren't supposed to go as planned such as Romeo going to the Capulet monument to say
Juliet went to find Friar Lawrence thinking that maybe he would be able to help her out, and he put together a solution for Juliet “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilling liquor drink thou off, When presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse” (4.1.93-96). Friar offers Juliet a poison that will shut her body down for forty-two hours, causing everyone to think she will be dead. The Friar is in fault during this moment because instead of consulting the prince or Juliet’s parents he decides to take matters into his own hands, he does not think about the things that could go wrong, and he is trying to help but is only making things worse. It is only after Juliet leaves that Friar feels guilty for what he has told Juliet to do, but by then it was too late to stop her from drinking it. When Friar Lawrence advised Friar John to deliver the letter to Romeo, the quarantine got in the way of that happening, when Friar is informed about the incident he did nothing to fix the problem he has created, he did not try to deliver the message to Romeo. This is Friar’s fault because he should have