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Friar Laurence (or
Friar Lawrence) is a character in
William Shakespeare's play
Romeo and Juliet.
Role in the play
Friar Laurence plays the part of an advisor to
Romeo, along with aiding in major plot developments.
Alone, the innocent Friar gives us
foreshadowing with his
soliloquy about
plants and their similarities to humans. When Romeo requests that the Friar
marry him to
Juliet, he's shocked, because only days before, Romeo had been infatuated with
Rosaline, a woman who didn't return his love. Nevertheless, Friar Laurence decides to marry Romeo and Juliet in the attempt to end the civil feud between the
Capulets and the
Montagues.
When Romeo is
banished and flees to Mantua for murdering
Tybalt (who had previously murdered
Mercutio), he tries to help the two lovers get back together using a death-emulating herb to fake Juliet's death. The friar's letter to Romeo doesn't reach him because the people of Mantua suspects the messenger came from a house where the plague reigns, and the Friar is unable to arrive at the Capulet's monument in time. Romeo kills
Count Paris, who he finds weeping near Juliet's corpse, then commits
suicide, by drinking poison that he bought from an impoverished apothecary, over what he thinks is Juliet's dead body. Friar Laurence arrives just as Juliet awakes from her chemically-induced slumber. He urges Juliet not to be rash, and to join a society of
nuns, but he hears a noise from outside and then flees from the tomb. Juliet then kills herself with Romeo's
dagger, completing the tragedy. The Friar is forced to return to the tomb, where he recounts the entire story to
Prince Escalus, and all the Montagues and Capulets. As he finishes, the prince proclaims, "We have still known thee for a holy man."
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