Friar

• "These violent delights have violent ends ... The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness" - Act 2 scene 3


  -Friars imagery tells us how he brings about the tragedy while he is oblivious to it

  -he links love to death

  -He suggests "the sweetest honey" has to be had in moderation as it will become "loathsome"- he predicts that although their love is intense now it will burn itslef out over time

  -shows Elizabethan view on balancing things out e.g. four humours

  -makes audience agree with him
• "If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear abate thy valour in the acting out" - Act 4 scene 1


  - proves friar didn't think Juliet's threat of suicide was real

  - shows his patriarchal prejudice against women - lack of respect and dismissive of Juliet

  - He's showing the same qualities of capulet
• "Come I'll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of nuns" - Act 5 scene 3


  - friar reveals himself as a coward as he flees instead of being caught with Juliet and the two corpses

  - he'd rather get rid of Juliet than confess to the part he played in the tragedy

  - "I'll dispose of thee" - callous language