In school, we've been studying the acclaimed works of Shakespeare, including Romeo and Juliet. Well, as the enigma they encountered as to how to marry the young (infatious?) couple, Friar Lawrence concocted a plot to marry them secretly. However, his plan involved both of the young lovers to fake their own deaths. I fail to see what good Friar Lawrence expected to come from such a plot. Anyone out there that knows?
2007-02-18 07:47:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
the faking of the death would serve to keep the families off their backs, so to speak. It would suck to be married and hunted.
2007-02-18 07:53:40 · answer #1 · answered by Crash Jones 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friar Lawrence never meant for Romeo to fake his own death - only Juliet, so that she could wake up, run away and be with Romeo. Except Romeo never found out it was only a fake death, so he killed himself out of grief.
2007-02-18 07:51:54 · answer #2 · answered by mary l 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By making everyone think that their children were dead, the two feuding families would come together in their loss. Alternately, it would give Romeo and Juliet an "out" to disappear in case their families refused to make up with each other, and they could stay dead and live elsewhere on their own.
2007-02-18 07:55:51 · answer #3 · answered by Heather W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Juliet death plot was engineered so that she could secretly join Romeo in exile, and they could live happily ever after.
Didn't quite work out.
2007-02-18 09:12:32 · answer #4 · answered by shkspr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋