“...News from Verona!-How now, Balthasar!/ Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?/ How doth my lady?...”
“...Her body sleeps in Capel’s monument,/ And her immortal part with angels lives” (V.i.13-14, 18-19).
In the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare in the 14th century, Balthasar, a servant, tells his master Romeo, that Romeo’s wife, Juliet is dead. This is because Friar Lawrence, who lives and works as a priest in Verona, has made a grave mistake. Friar Lawrence’s mistakes eventually lead to the death of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are children of two feuding families, therefore making them star-crossed lovers who take their own lives. Friar Lawrence is an anxious person and he is overly concerned about …show more content…
Paris is telling Friar Lawrence that he and Juliet’s wedding is on Thursday, and the friar starts to panic. “On Thursday, sir? The time is very short... You say you don’t know the lady’s mind./ Uneven is the course, I like it not” (IV.i.1, 4-5). The friar is bothered because he has already married Romeo and Juliet and it would be a sin for him to also marry Paris and Juliet. Furthermore, despair washed over Friar Lawrence when he told Romeo that he was banished from Verona This really upset Romeo because he was still alive, but he couldn’t see Juliet, so he would rather die. “It’s torture, not mercy! Heaven is here/ where Juliet lives.../ I’ll give thee armor to keep off that word;/ Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy,/ To comfort thee, though thou art banished” ( III.iii.30-31, 55-57). This confirms that the friar coddles Romeo and Juliet and their relationship, because he was the one who secretly married them and he doesn’t want to get in trouble or be blamed. Because Friar Lawrence is concerned about Juliet having to marry Paris and Romeo being banished, These actions of the friar ultimately led to the suicides of Romeo and