Friar Lawrence quotes Flashcards
father figure to Romeo
romeos parents are absent
why is he trusted?
because he is a religious figure - elizabethans would immediately trust him - Juliet calls him a ‘holy man’
cowardly
abandons J when she kills herself - ‘I dare no longer stay’
wise
‘love moderately; long love doth so’
respected
‘o lord’ ‘hear good counsel’
‘violent delights have violent ends’
violent intensity of love between r and j will end badly - foreshadowing
imagery of r and j love
‘fire and power’
‘fire and powder’
Just a few years after the play was first performed, a group of Catholics tried to blow up the House of Lords with barrels of gunpowder. The allusion in the play to “fire and powder” would have thus had a particularly strong resonance for audiences watching the play at this time.
