Thursday, May 14, 2015

Friar Laurence evidence

A)  unite families with loving marriage of children
  "I'll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households rancor into love."(I, 3, 90-93)

  "Therefore love moderately: long love doth so."(II, 6, 14-15)



B)
Talks Juliet out of suicide
FL talks her out of desperation by offering a plan
"Hold daughter, I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution as that is desperate to prevent. . .thou wilt undertake a thing like death."(IV, 1, 69-74)


C)
Offers alternative to Romeo after Tybalt's death

 FL talks Romeo out of suicide after he gets banished, " I'll give you armor to keep off that word . . . banished"(III, 3,54)

"Wilt thou slay thyself?  And slay thy lady too lives in thee" (III, 3, 116)


D)  FL wasn't at fault for leaving tomb

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