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Friar Lawrence's Actions In Romeo And Juliet By Baz Luhrmann

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One’s Actions Children often tend to blame others for their devious actions. Many people find that when they grow up they realize that they are responsible for their own actions. People can make an impact on one's actions, but in the end, being devious always has its consequences. In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Friar Lawrence has a dominant character trait of being devious in all of his actions. Friar Lawrence does many things to help himself while one thinks it is for the main characters, Romeo and Juliet. The friar’s character trait is also portrayed clearly in the film, Romeo and Juliet, directed by Baz Luhrmann. When one is devious, they are showing a skillful use of underhanded tactics to achieve goals. Friar Lawrence …show more content…

He foreshadows the death of Romeo and Juliet many times through his actions and sayings. In the play, Friar Lawrence warns Romeo and states, “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” (Shakespeare 2.6.9-15). The friar is foreshadowing the ending, giving the audience hints that the “violent delights” or Romeo and Juliet’s love will have a “violent ending.” The audience does not know that the star crossed lovers will have a tragic death in the end so they do not make a connection to Friar Lawrence’s quote before Romeo and Juliet die. The Friar is very ironic because he is one of the main reasons for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. He helps them get married, which he is doing for himself in a way, because he does not want to see the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets anymore, but the audience assumed he helps them get married, plainly for the love between Romeo and …show more content…

Friar Lawrence has a giant cross tattoo on his back, which is vividly shown during the scenes where he is not acting as a priest but the complete opposite. It proves that Friar Lawrence is just hiding behind a position and being devious with his dark arts. During the film when the Friar is planting or hiding Romeo, his cross tattoo is vividly shown with clothes inappropriate for a priest to wear. Friar Lawrence wears see through shirts, again showing the cross when he tries to hide Romeo from the police (Luhrmann). When he was doing more religious acts, the cross is concealed and the clothing was completely different, more appropriate toward the role of a priest. This again shows that the Friar is hiding something and being

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