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The role of Friar Lawrence in the play “Romeo and Juliet”
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The role of Friar Lawrence in the play "Romeo and Juliet" Friar Lawrence's character plays a very important part in the story of Romeo and Juliet. He has a role in the most dramatic parts of the play, the marriage of the two lovers, the death of Romeo, Juliet taking the potion to feign her death and the failure to find Romeo in time and the failure to prevent Juliet's death. Friar Lawrence first appears in Act 2 scene 3, picking flowers, which are actually baleful weeds, and precious juiced flowers, which are medicinal. This scene is very relevant to later on in the play when these weeds and flowers are to be used to make the potion that Juliet takes to mimic death. This is indicated by what Friar Lawrence says: "Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, and vice sometimes by action, dignified", this means that something that is done for a good...
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