Because of this desire, he consents to secretly marry Romeo and Juliet, hoping that their union will be able to reconcile the warring factions. Perhaps Friar Lawrence is too kind and willing to assist all that come to him for advice or help.
When Romeo comes to him about a marriage ceremony, he agrees to perform it quickly and in secret, even though he reproves Romeo for fickleness and impetuousness. He also promises to send news of Verona to Romeo during his exile in Mantua; in fact, he tells Romeo he will try to devise a plan to reunite the two lovers. After Juliet is forced by her father into a betrothal to Paris, she goes to Friar Lawrence to seek his advice.
The good Friar is now in too deep to turn back. Knowing plants and poisons, he suggests that Juliet take a potion to make her appear dead and actually gives it to her to take back to her bedchamber to drink.
By drinking the potion, fair Juliet can prevent her marriage to Paris. Friar Lawrence arrives at the tomb after Paris, Romeo, and Juliet are dead. Since he is present when the authorities arrive, they suspect him of murder and arrest him.
Because he has written a letter that proves his innocence, he is soon exonerated. As a man of religion, he is extremely sympathetic to the problems of others, especially of Romeo and Juliet.
He tries to do his utmost for them. The preposterous nature of the means he adopts to help the lovers only points out his humane approach to their problems. If Friar Lawrence has a flaw, it is caring too deeply and too much. Tybalt is the nephew of Lady Capulet. As a young man, he seems to represent what Capulet must have been in his young days; but he has none of the redeeming features of his uncle and is more like his aunt. With his quarrelsome nature, Tybalt is like a fireball, ready to explode at any moment.
He discourteously leaves only when he is threatened with disinheritance, and even as he does so, he vows vengeance on Romeo in the future. He later sends a letter to Romeo challenging him to fight, merely because he has dared to enter the dance hall.
He walks about the street seeking his enemy. When he finally meets Romeo, he insults him by calling him a villain. Romeo, because of his new found love, refuses to fight with him. Discovering the Characters The activity can be found on page 3 with resources on pages It takes approximately 20 minutes.
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Main Site Menu. Who's who Test yourself. Friar Laurence. The Nurse. Lord Capulet. Lady Capulet. The Nurse believes in love and wants Juliet to have a nice-looking husband, but the idea that Juliet would want to sacrifice herself for love is incomprehensible to her. Vain, fashionable, supremely aware of courtesy and the lack of it, he becomes aggressive, violent, and quick to draw his sword when he feels his pride has been injured.
Once drawn, his sword is something to be feared. He loathes Montagues. The patriarch of the Capulet family, father of Juliet, husband of Lady Capulet, and enemy, for unexplained reasons, of Montague.
Often prudent, he commands respect and propriety, but he is liable to fly into a rage when either is lacking. A woman who herself married young by her own estimation she gave birth to Juliet at close to the age of fourteen , she is eager to see her daughter marry Paris. She is an ineffectual mother, relying on the Nurse for moral and pragmatic support.
She dies of grief after Romeo is exiled from Verona. A kinsman of the Prince, and the suitor of Juliet most preferred by Capulet. Once Capulet has promised him he can marry Juliet, he behaves very presumptuous toward her, acting as if they are already married. Benvolio makes a genuine effort to defuse violent scenes in public places, though Mercutio accuses him of having a nasty temper in private.
He spends most of the play trying to help Romeo get his mind off Rosaline, even after Romeo has fallen in love with Juliet. The Prince of Verona. A kinsman of Mercutio and Paris. As the seat of political power in Verona, he is concerned about maintaining the public peace at all costs. Friar John is held up in a quarantined house, and the message never reaches Romeo. Two servants of the house of Capulet, who, like their master, hate the Montagues.
At the outset of the play, they successfully provoke some Montague men into a fight. An apothecary in Mantua. Had he been wealthier, he might have been able to afford to value his morals more than money, and refused to sell poison to Romeo.
He is illiterate, and a bad singer.
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