The Friar is collecting herbs and flowers while he postulates on their powers to medicate and to poison. Romeo tells him of his love for Juliet and asks the Friar to marry them later that day. The dual nature within the Friar’s plants suggests a coexistence of good and evil.

Juliet is heartbroken at losing her love and seeks Friar Lawrence’s help. He devises a plan to reunite the couple which will take great strength of will (Act 4 Scene 1) to carry out. The Friar will give Juliet a potion to make her appear dead.

The friar proposes a plan: Juliet must consent to marry Paris; then, on the night before the wedding, she must drink a sleeping potion that will make her appear to be dead; she will be laid to rest in the Capulet tomb, and the friar will send word to Romeo in Mantua to help him retrieve her when she wakes up.

In this quote, the Friar is saying to take the potion. He is telling Juliet that the potion will make her appear as if she is dead. If I were Juliet, I would not take the potion, I’d just run away that night.

His plans fail because he does not take the time to be more reasoned when he can and because he has completely unrealistic expectations of what he can accomplish. Though he may have been quite sincere in all of these things, his motives were questionable, at best.

Friar John replies that he was unable to deliver the letter because he was shut up in a quarantined house due to an outbreak of plague. Friar Lawrence becomes upset, realizing that if Romeo does not know about Juliet’s false death, there will be no one to retrieve her from the tomb when she awakes.

So Romeo, in an attempt to get laid, ruins Juliet’s prospects of marrying Paris, kills her cousin, gets banished, and drives a 13-year-old girl to suicide. Romeo’s the bad guy here. Juliet kills herself because her love, Romeo, is dead.

It is not surprising that the Friar’s plan fails because his plan from the beginning has several problems. The events of the play support that fact that things don’t always turn out the that they are supposed to. Romeo and Juliet are enemies, but they fall in love which is unexpected.

When Romeo requests the Friar marry him to Juliet, he is shocked, because only days before, Romeo had been infatuated with Rosaline, a woman who did not return his love. Nevertheless, Friar Laurence decides to marry Romeo and Juliet in the attempt to stop the civil feud between the Capulets and the Montagues.

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

At the end of the play, Romeo and Juliet both commit suicide. Although they killed themselves, there were other factors that led them to their demise. The three major causes of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths were bad choices, adult interference, and bad luck.

Juliet wakes up from the sleeping potion and finds Romeo dead next to her. She says her final goodbye to Romeo and takes her own life with Romeo’s dagger. She chose to kill herself after she found Romeo dead because she loved him and he’s the only man she wanted to be with.

He entered the tomb where Juliet appeared to be dead, and then he killed himself. If fate allowed Juliet to wake up even 2 seconds before Romeo committed suicide, I’m sure they’d both be alive, but that is not what happened. It is evident that fate is the cause of their tragic end and their families’ new beginning.

Romeo blames himself for Mercutio’s death because he placed his love for Juliet before consideration of his friend. Romeo thus attacks Tybalt to assuage his guilt. However, by doing so, he disregards any effect that his choice may have on Juliet.

Tybalt started a fight, Mercutio took him up on it, Romeo killed Tybalt in revenge, and the prince punished Romeo with banishment. Therefore, Tybalt, Mercutio, Romeo, and the prince all play an important role in Romeo’s exile.