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Friar Lawrence's character across the play
This is what you need to know about the Friar to be 'exam ready':
Friar Lawrence is a neutral character in the play. As a religious man, his role as a priest means that he does not belong to any side of the quarrel.
Friar Lawrence's key events across the whole play:
The Friar is able to manipulate nature:
Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence, and medicine power
Click on the below link for key extracts and practice exam questions on Friar Lawrence:
Act 2 Scene 6 – Wedding
Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
So smile the heavens upon this holy act,
That after hours with sorrow chide us not!
ROMEO
Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight:
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine.
FRIAR LAURENCE
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.
Enter JULIET
Here comes the lady: O, so light a foot
Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint:
A lover may bestride the gossamer
That idles in the wanton summer air,
And yet not fall; so light is vanity.
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