Flawed Decisions In Romeo And Juliet
Flawed Solutions Lead to Deaths From two houses with deep rivalries comes the tale of two lovers destined to die by the stars above. William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet tells the tale of star crossed lovers and how their love is destined to fail because of flawed decisions and actions made throughout the play. One of the characters that makes the most flawed decisions and actions is Friar Laurence. The Friar first displays his flawed decision making when Romeo asks him to marry him and Juliet because he believes that this hidden marriage will relieve the tension between the houses. Later in the play, the Friar decides that fixing the relationship between Romeo and Juliet can be fixed by only telling one of the two the plan to
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Romeo and Juliet decide that they are going to be married and Romeo goes to ask the Friar to marry them. The Friar is proud of Romeo for the fact that Romeo got over Rosaline and agrees to marry the two lovers. “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be,/For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households' rancor to pure love (II. iii. 90-93). The Friar decides that marrying Romeo and Juliet is a good idea because of the slight chance that it could reunite the two families. Yet the Friar fails to see all the possible negative outcomes that could come from marrying Romeo and Juliet. Later in the scene the Friar talks to Romeo about how these types of relationships can end badly for the people involved. “These violent delights have violent ends/And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey/Is loathsome in his own deliciousness/And in the taste confounds the appetite. / Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. /Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow (II. vi. 9-15). The Friar is contradicting everything he already said earlier. Earlier, he believed that only good could come out of the marriage and now he believes that the marriage could end in death for Romeo and Juliet. If the Friar was not so quick to agree to Romeo’s request of marriage, he could have stopped the death of the two lovers. If Romeo and Juliet were never married, they would not feel the need to be together at all times and they would not have to come up with plans for them to be
Romeo and Juliet decide that they are going to be married and Romeo goes to ask the Friar to marry them. The Friar is proud of Romeo for the fact that Romeo got over Rosaline and agrees to marry the two lovers. “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be,/For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households' rancor to pure love (II. iii. 90-93). The Friar decides that marrying Romeo and Juliet is a good idea because of the slight chance that it could reunite the two families. Yet the Friar fails to see all the possible negative outcomes that could come from marrying Romeo and Juliet. Later in the scene the Friar talks to Romeo about how these types of relationships can end badly for the people involved. “These violent delights have violent ends/And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey/Is loathsome in his own deliciousness/And in the taste confounds the appetite. / Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. /Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow (II. vi. 9-15). The Friar is contradicting everything he already said earlier. Earlier, he believed that only good could come out of the marriage and now he believes that the marriage could end in death for Romeo and Juliet. If the Friar was not so quick to agree to Romeo’s request of marriage, he could have stopped the death of the two lovers. If Romeo and Juliet were never married, they would not feel the need to be together at all times and they would not have to come up with plans for them to be