Romeo And Juliet Analysis

Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film, Romeo + Juliet effectively appropriates the Shakespearean 16th century love tragedy. So why has Luhrmann decided to appropriate Romeo and Juliet? By changing the context, Luhrmann effectively makes the play relevant, discussing his contextual concerns of the 1990’s. This is done through the use of themes in the film, love, family disputes and hate which have remained similar to the original play, although the way they have been presented are different, in particular the form and characters. The form has had an obvious change as the original play has been adapted into a film. Characters in the film have also been appropriated to correspond with Luhrmann's contextual concerns. Hence, Luhrmann successfully appropriates the original Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet by maintaining similar themes, but altering the form and characterisation to fit his contextual concerns.

When Juliet hears that the wedding has been moved up to the next day, she drinks the

Secondly, Friar Lawrence’s intentions are always for the benefit of others. He helps his fellow citizens when they are in despair, such as when Romeo arrives at the friar’s cell crying himself to death. The friar responds, “Thou shalt live, till we can find a time to blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back” (3, 3, 150-152). Here, Friar Lawrence acts as a mentor to Romeo, and uplifts his spirits by guiding him through the difficult times of banishment. Friar tells Romeo what he wants to hear because he understands Romeo’s boundless love for Juliet, and what may happen as the consequence of forbidden love. Moreover, Friar Lawrence has noble intentions that give himself no personal gain. When he agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet, he says, “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love” (2, 3, 90-92). Friar decides to marry the young lovers not only to help his friends, but because he believes it will end the long bitter feud of Verona. He only cares about the wellbeing of the city and the safety of the opposing families. Lastly, Friar Lawrence always assists his fellow citizens in their time of desperation. When

During a person’s early life, they look to their elders to show them right and wrong. Typically, they will provide wisdom to children to help them make it through life. Similarly, in the play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the lives of Romeo and Juliet are influenced greatly by their elders. Throughout the play, adults try to give the young lovers advice. It is these people that ultimately contributed to the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet.

Now that Juliet takes the vial and her family thinks she is dead, Friar Lawrence scolds Capulet for trying to force the marriage with Paris. “Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion’s cure lives not in these confusions. Heaven and yourself had part in this fair maid. Now heaven hath all, and the better it is for your maid” (IV.v.71-74). While Capulet is grieving, Friar tells him that Juliet is better off in heaven than living with Capulet. Friar’s importance in this act is to show that with Juliet not marrying Paris, she has a way of reaching Romeo, and eventually the Capulets and Montagues would be peaceful towards each other. This is part of Friar’s plan for harmony and therefore he can be described as harmonious and peacemaking.

The Friar is always ready with a plan. He has a civil relationship with most characters and doesn’t have any enemies, in the play, which is unusual as most characters have an enemy. Tybalts enemy is Romeo and Lord Capulets enemy is Lord Montague. As a character the Friar is concerned about the feud and will do anything in his power to stop it “To turn your households’ rancour to pure love”. He always wants to do the right thing by everyone but his decisions and actions end in

First, Friar Lawrence knows the danger of wedding together a Capulet and a Montague without the consent of either of their families. Despite the risk, Friar Lawrence is loyal to his friend Romeo, who believes he has found ‘the one’ and wishes to marry her the same day “O, she knew well Thy love did read by rote and could not spell/But come, young waverer, come, go with me/In one respect I'll thy assistant be, For this alliance may so happy prove marriage To turn your households' rancor to pure love.” (2,3,94). Secondly, Loyalty is not only displayed by Friar Lawrence, it is also returned to him when Friar John helps Friar Lawrence on a risky mission to get a message to Romeo, who was banished from the town of Verona. For instance, Friar John was to invite Romeo back to town so that Romeo and Juliet are able to elope after the fake death of Juliet “This same should be the voice of Friar John. Welcome from Mantua! What says Romeo? Or if his mind be writ, give me his letter” (5,2,2). Lastly, Juliet, just like all the other citizens of the Verona, look to the church committee for help in tough times. In fact, Friar Lawrence helps Juliet out of committing suicide by finding a way to get Romeo and Juliet together as he creates a deceiving plan after Juliet goes begging to him for help “Take

The Friar had good intentions when he married Romeo and Juliet, as shown in this quote, “For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households’ rancour to pure love” (2.4.91-92). In this quote, Friar Lawrence explains his reasoning behind marrying Romeo and Juliet, he thought that by marrying the two, he could stop the feud. This did not work as no one told the rest of the families and the Capulets tried to marry Juliet to Paris. The Friar also failed to get the letter to Romeo that would have told him that Juliet wasn’t dead. If Romeo had received this letter, he would not have committed suicide in Juliet's grave when he returned to Verona. Also, if the Friar had gotten to Juliet’s grave any earlier, he could have saved both Romeo and Juliet. The following quote is from the final scene of the play, “Miscarried by my fault, let my old life / Be sacrificed, some hour before this time, / unto the rigour of the severest law” (5.3.271-274). In this scene, the Friar admits the part that he played in Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. He volunteers himself to be punished for this, but the rest of the families and the Prince don't want to punish him. Although he meant well, Friar Lawrence’s actions resulted in the deaths of Romeo and

Friar Laurence simply influenced Romeo’s decision, it was ultimately Romeo and Juliet's decision to carry on with the marriage. In addition, Friar Laurence was put under immense pressure to marry the two lovers to promote peace or to stop the marriage and not be part of such a sinful act. Friar Laurence's inability to execute the most crucial aspect of the plan puts him at fault for the death. After being banished from Verona, wedding plans for Paris and Juliet being to start. Juliet has forsaken her love to Romeo, and decides that her marriage will be done with only one person, which is Romeo. The Friar promises Juliet that he will reunite them and they can live happily by telling Juliet “Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, and hither shall hem come; and he and I shall watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee to Mantua” (4.1.114-117). The Friar begins to tell Juliet that his plan is foolproof, and it will help them escape safely into Mantua where they can live happily ever after. As the play continues on into act 5, Friar Laurence begins to send out his letter to Romeo. However, Friar John comes back to Verona and tells Friar Laurence “I could not send it—here it is again, nor get a messenger to bring it thee” (5.2.14-16). Friar Laurence is most to blame because he is unable to perform the most vital part of the plan. If Friar Laurence knew that the letter

In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, there were many people that played important roles, but one would think that Friar’s role was the most important. In the play Romeo and Juliet meet Friar Lawrence. He is a priest that lives on the outskirts of Verona and he is always there to give a helping hand. Romeo first met him when he was going to ask Friar to marry him and Juliet. From there through the rest of the play he has always been someone to give support to Romeo and Juliet.

To begin with, Friar Lawrence assists the romance of Romeo and Juliet in two ways. First, he binds them in the sacrament of marriage. His intentions are shown when he says, “In one respect I'll they assistant be, // or this alliance may so happy prove // To turn your households' rancor to pure love. (II. iii. 97-99).” By this action, he jumpstarts the sequence of events in which Juliet avoids marrying Paris at all

Although one may state that Juliet should be blamed for the deaths of Romeo and herself due to her rash and impatient personality, the person most responsible for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is the impulsive mediator, Friar Lawrence, because he arranges Romeo and Juliet’s secret marriage and gives Juliet a potion that makes her appear dead without informing Romeo beforehand. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because of his impulsive decision to arrange a secret marriage between Romeo and Juliet which is hidden from the rest of the Montague and Capulet family members. In the story, the two star-crossed lovers wish to marry each other, however, they face a huge struggle in having a successful marriage from both of

“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare has been read in schools around the world ever since schools have existed. One of the characters in the play is Friar Lawrence, who makes many influential decisions that affect the story. Friar Lawrence marrying Romeo and Juliet causes more problems than it solves. Also, Friar Lawrence’s plan for Juliet to fake her death is one of the worst decisions in the play that leads to terrible tragedy. Finally, Friar Lawrence had the chance to save Juliet from killing herself after she awoke, but he gave absolutely no effort. Shakespeare used Friar Lawrence as a major driving force in the tragedy.

Romeo was still trying to get over his breakup with Rosaline. Upon seeing Juliet, Romeo finds love at first sight. He says, “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear” (I, v, 44-46). They decided that they must be married as fast as they could. When Romeo and Juliet, the ”Star-cross’d lovers”(Prologue, 6), first go to Friar Laurence about their new found love for each other, Friar is hesitant to marry the couple seeing as he knew of their families feud. Although it was Romeo and Juliet that rushed into the marriage and refused to tell their parents, Friar Laurence was in a place of authority. He didn’t have to marry them, but instead he used this as a plan. A plan in hopes of bringing the Montague and Capulet families together and ending the feud. As soon as he realized that this could only make the feud worse, he tried to warn Romeo about marriage by saying, “These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die” (II, vi, 9-10). Although he had good intentions at first, he himself recognized that he had made a mistake. This was one of the many stratagems that contributed to Romeo and Juliet’s death. He could have prevented the whole situation by merely saying “no” when first asked to marry

Friar Lawrence thinks that Romeo and Juliet’s secret marriage will end the feud between the rivaling families. Therefore, he agrees to help them. He says, “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be,/For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your households’ rancour to pure love” (2.3.90-93). The Friar plays an important role in Romeo and Juliet. He is the one who is mainly responsible for causing multiple problems into larger consequences and to Romeo and Juliet’s death. Romeo and Juliet trusted Friar for his “wise” advice and resolutions in difficult situations, but all he returned were more problems and consequences. The author specifically uses the words “thy assistant be” to show that the Friar’s choice to aid Romeo and Juliet in their marriage shows his . When he had the chance, he should have separated Romeo and Juliet’s love between them like a wise solution. Instead, he encouraged their love and helped them get married. His dreadful solution was made by his emotion and not his head. He was completely blinded by his love for the both families that he was willing to do anything for their unity. This word relates to the theme of making decisions based on one’s emotion leading to destruction because the Friar believes that it is best for the Montagues and the Capulets to end their rivalry and bring peace between one another. And to achieve this goal, he was willing to sacrifice the ones who trusted him the most. Friar says that Romeo and Juliet’s “alliance” will unify the feuding families together. But in reality, to end the long lasting feud, it required a huge sacrifice. In the end, the poor decision made by friar leads Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. At this point, his excitement and his urge to accomplish his goal leads him to make hasty and reckless decisions. In addition, the author uses the words “happy prove” to show him hoping for the alliance