Friar Lawrence Flashcards
Friar Lawrence is the serious foil to which character?
The Nurse: both are mentors to R and J respectively, but one is a comic figure while the other is more serious and spiritual
We first meet Friar Lawrence in Act 2, scene 3 when he describes the oppositional forces in nature using which techniques
Antithesis and oppositions, keeping conflict alive in the play at the level of the language
Shakespeare frames Friar Lawrence as a …?
philosophical and spiritual guide to Romeo
When Romeo arrives (straight from the balcony scene/Capulet’s orchard), FL thinks he has been with…?
Rosaline: Shakespeare uses FL’s confusion to suggest the overhasty courtship of Romeo and Juliet
This realisation that Romeo has found a new love leads him to call young men
Changeable and a ‘young waverer’
FL resolves to help Romeo so that he might mend the…?
Feud: ‘For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your household’s rancour to pure love’
FL is a key character to remind us about time pressure…an example of this is when he states (in 2.3)…?
‘Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.’
In 2.6. FL performs the marriage. His homily focuses on the dangers of falling in love very…?
Quickly: ‘These violent delights have violent ends’. He compares R and J to [gun]powder and fire…
When FL sees Juliet he uses language which is hyperbolic and poetic- making Juliet seem as special as she is described in the Balcony scene…examples?
‘Oh, so light a foot/will ne’er wear out the everlasting flint’
In 3.3. FL gently mocks Romeo, saying he is…?
‘Wedded to calamity’
He eventually loses patience with Romeo in the long speech after R has threatened suicide, saying…
‘A pack of blessings light upon thy back’ to sum up the ways in which he has been lucky (‘happy’)
After the arranged marriage has put extra pressure on everyone, FL has to use the potion: he starts to seem a more…character?
Ambivalent
FL’s ambivalent nature is first signalled through Juliet’s fears that the potion might be …?
‘A poison’, ‘lest in this marriage [the planned bigamous marriage to Paris] he should be dishonoured.’
The final way in which FL feels like a more unattractive and ambivalent character is during the final scenes when…
He find R dead and then tries to ‘dispose of’ Juliet in a convent and then runs away
He redeems himself towards the end through his…
Full and honest account to the Prince, who says he has always ‘known thee for a holy man.’
