Act 2, Scene 6 FORESHADOWING  Friar Laurence: These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder. . . Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.  When Juliet arrives, Romeo uses many poetic words to describe her and their love.

Romeo’s actual threat of suicide in Friar Lawrence’s cell, in which he desires to “sack / The hateful mansion” (3.3.

Friar Lawrence causes the deaths of Romeo and Juliet by marrying them too quickly, advancing with his plan too quickly, and running away instead of helping Juliet. He asks Romeo how he is over his previous love, Rosaline, so quickly and is unsure about allowing this union.

In what ways do Romeo and Juliet need the help of Friar Laurence and the Nurse in order to save their love and move forward? Support your response with evidence from the text. Since they both behave emotionally and irrationally, they need older and wiser people to guide them and help them to solve problems.

The friar warns Romeo that “violent delights have violent ends,” and that even “the sweetest honey” becomes loathsome when indulged in too often. He urges Romeo to “love moderately”—if he does, he will love longer.

Do Romeo’s friends know he is now in love with Juliet? No. They just know he is in love, but they do not know who with. They think he is lovesick for Rosaline, and because he is lovesick for her they think he is weak and incapable of having a duel with Tybalt.

His words foreshadow the death and destruction that await Romeo and Juliet and their families, as the friar compares their love to kisses that consume (meaning that their own kisses consume or destroy them). He also compares their love to honey that is so sweet that it makes one sick and destroys the appetite.

Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 3 – Friar Laurence agrees to help Romeo marry Juliet.