Friar+Lawrence's+True+Colors

Friar Lawrenceʼs True Colors
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 advice or even just to chat with. He is calm, reasonable, and a comforting man. 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 whatʼs best

for them. He is very caring about other people.

Although the friar is caring, he has a trait in him that no one would ever have

expected. One example of that trait would be the time of when Juliet came to him with

her troubles of marriage with Paris. Friar Lawrenceʼs solution was to give Juliet a potion

that would make her dead, for a while. But the side effects were that she might actually

get killed in the process or she would wake up in a tomb of dead bodies. This is one of

the tricks he had up his sleeve, and he didn't even hold back on giving Juliet that potion

that could have killed her! Friar Lawrence has two faces, one side being a saint and the

other as someone with dramatic ideas. Although Friar Lawrence proposes the most

outrageous ideas, he is not doing them because he is evil, he does them because he

likes helping people and just wanted to help satisfy Juliet with her situation. The friar

loves helping people because he loves them like they are his own and treats them

equally.

Friar Lawrence's main purpose to do all these outrageous actions is to set people

in the path where they will follow good morals and do the right thing. He 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.