friar lawrence

• FRIAR LAWRENCE

  'these violent delights have violent ends'

  cautions romeo
• FRIAR

  rejects idea of love being from the heart

  • "young men's love lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes"

  shakespeare bringing light to superficial nature of love

  contradicts romantically idealised conventions of the time
• friar lawrence

  romeo moving on from rosaline

  "young men's love lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes"
• friar lawrence

  well-meaning

  "for this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your household's rancour to purse love"

  • doesn't believe the love is authentic
  • thinks it will stop the feud