Romeo and Juliet Group

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mxiia
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High School - 9th Grade

In "Romeo and Juliet", what good does Friar Lawrence think might come of the marriage?

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Posted by mxiia on Tuesday February 3, 2009 at 2:58 PM and tagged with act 2, act ii, alliance, friar, juliet, lawrence, marriage, romeo, romeo and juliet, scene 3, scene iii, shakespeare.

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  1. robertwilliam

    eNotes Editor

    Good question. It's one aspect of the play that's often overlooked, and it tells you a lot about the relationship between the Montagues and the Capulets.

    For this alliance may so happy prove
    To turn your households' rancour to pure love.

    Friar Laurence thinks that their marriage will stop the feud between the Montagues and Capulets - and indeed, this is one of the reasons he agrees to perform the marriage ceremony. Yet it is that same day that Mercutio is killed, and then Romeo kills Tybalt - meaning that the feud becomes more serious and more deadly, and that a simple marriage will no longer heal it.

    But if the deaths hadn't occurred? Well, then Romeo and Juliet might have ended with a big, happy, two-family wedding!

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/romeo-text/act-ii-scene-iii

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    Posted by robertwilliam on Tuesday February 3, 2009 at 3:03 PM

  2. shaylin337
    shaylin337 Student
    High School - 11th Grade

    Frair Lawrence might think of the marriage that the capluets and monogules will stop all the fight and become friends cause for their children marriyng each other .

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    Posted by shaylin337 on Wednesday February 4, 2009 at 3:15 PM