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Friar Lawrence is Juliet's confessor. The two go to him to tell them of their love, and he agrees to secretly marry them in the hope that this marriage will stamp out the feud that their...
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If you were to consider Romeo and Juliet as united in death, the afterlife, I would have to say he was successful. However, the Friar far oversteps his bounds, especially as a man of God, when...
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