Friar Flashcards
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Friar and Romeo bond paragraph
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- romeo seeks out a father figure in the friar whom he does not have the comfortability with with his hard valued upper class paretns nor his masculine friends, romeo does not wholey abide to the friar showing he views him more as a confidant and friend
- theres a clear class differnce between the lady and lords and the nurse and friar that would not be crossed in elizabethan society
- romeo calls the friar ‘father’ which is a term typically reserved for clergy meaning that it could allude to how he sees the friar as a genuine parental guidance, similarly the friar refers to him as ‘son’
- theres a deep level of trust between the two, Romeo tells no one of his love as it is much purer and more sacred than his prior relationship but he informs the father showing trust and also shows how the friar is relgiosuly pure- the influence of religion and would show the audeince the fairness of romeo and julliettes affair/ importace of human relations
- in turn the friar is kind and helpful to romeo, asking god to ‘pardon sin’ when he learns of wrongs, he is secretive and caring- hes also trusted he knows that ‘romeo hath not been in bed’
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Friar as a religious figure
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- he is the religious representative in the play as a fransiscan monk, the symbol for pristine morality and peace in the play and his position here is questionable, he both aids and hinders the lovers
- this could show how religon can become corrupt if not kept in check but also how conflict and violence can result in the pollution of morality
- he tells the holy church to incorporate “two in one” whcih plays into a semantic field of pairing and shows him to be a catalyst in the wedding and indeed pairing of the twos conteraversial relations
- “turn your households rancor to pure love” on the surface level as is expected of a devout monk the friar has prisitine morals and prays for a time in which the fued between the two houses can be vanquished by love, indeed this can be seen as the key factor behind his actions that result in the twos fates ending in death as from their sacrificial ashes arose a bodning between the houses due to their guilt- in many ways we can see religion as the catalyst in the ending of the symbolic household rivalry as it’s the friar who actively looks to aid the lovers in a fate that results in their suicides
