Rough+Draft+Essay

By: Erika Flores, 9E
In the poetic story of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence plays the peaceful priest

that accompanies Romeo and Juliet in their troubles. Friar Lawrence is a man with two

sides, one side being the obvious where he is kind, but the other is a more secret

area. Friar Lawrence is wise and a figure of peace, but he is also a man with different

thoughts and tricks up his sleeve that he only uses when it comes to drastic measures.

The friar is very wise and enlightening. He is a figure that many people seek for

good advise or even just to chat with. He is calm, reasonable, and comforting. He

quotes from the story, “To comfort thee, although thou art banished.” In this scene, even

though Romeo was banished from his village for murder, Friar Lawrence knows Romeo

better than that and is still willing to make him feel better by nourishing him. He even

tries to suggest new ideas for Romeo to try out and make a better life for himself after

what he did. He has pride and fully supports the correct morals and cares for others that

he will do whatever he can to convert them onto the right path to give them what’s best

for them.

Friar Lawrence is in fact a wise figure of peace, but he is also someone with the

sorts of ideas one would not expect from a saint. An example for this would be when

Juliet came to the friar for help on her situation of her marriage to Paris, he gave her an

option of drinking his potion that would make her look dead. But this potion had side

effects too, with a chance of her dying in the process if she were to be awaken in a

tomb of deceased bodies. One would never expect this kind of proposal from a man of

God. Friar Lawrence is a two-sided figure, one side as a saint and the other as a person

with dramatic ideas. But Friar Lawrence is not doing this because he is a bad person.

He is doing this because he likes helping people and wants to help Juliet with her

situation. He wants to give people the best of what’s good for them and share his

knowledge of enlightenment to give people good morals to follow to be better people.

Friar Lawrence does his very best to try and console people when they are in

need of happiness. He loves everyone in his village and treats them like his own

children and provides them with what parents give: love and care. He cares for his

people that when there is a flaw in their actions or thoughts, he will correct them and

steer them in the direction that will lead them to a better, brighter future. Friar Lawrence is

unselfish and is a fatherly figure that many people look up to and follow.