Act IV

*The reporter knows about Romeo and Juliet, but not that the death was faked*

Reporter: Friar, how do you know Romeo Montague?

Friar: When Romeo was little, his mother would leave him in my care. Now that he is                 grown up, he still thinks of me as his father and comes to me with all his problems.

Reporter: How do you feel about the town’s conflict between the Capulets and the Montagues?

Friar: It is childish behaviour such as this that resulted in the death of Mercutio. No one even remembers why we are fighting, and everyone is involved to some extent. I myself, try to stay out of it as much as I can but on occasion I have had to step in to stop Romeo from getting hurt.

Reporter: Have you at any point encouraged Romeo’s relationship with Juliet?

Friar: I believe that no one has the right to stand between two people that are truly in love. Nowadays it seems as if our priorities have been warped and people are getting married for money and power. It is they who are wrong. Romeo and Juliet are truly in love, and despite the hatred between their families and the social boundaries preventing me from doing so; I have encouraged them and even helped them along at times.

Reporter: Juliet’s death seems a bit suspicious at a time like this. She didn’t want to marry Paris, then she was okay with it, and then she killed herself. Do you know anything about that that you could tell us?

Friar: Maybe she was never okay with it, but she had to pretend to be so that she could kill herself without anyone stopping her. If she kept protesting, her parents probably wouldn’t have let her go to her room alone for fear of her sneaking out. Since you know about her and Romeo; you probably already understand her motives. She was so in love with him that she absolutely could not marry Paris; yet she couldn’t handle a life on the run with Romeo with any friends, parents or anyone to help her. In addition to this, she was in a state of mental trauma. She wasn’t thinking straight.

Reporter: How do you think Romeo is going to handle this?

Friar:  I can’t see the future; but knowing Romeo and his moods lately. He’ll be absolutely depressed and probably try to kill himself again. I’m going to try to find him in Mantua before he hears about it so that I can help him get through this. I figure if I can get him over it; he’ll be onto a new girl by next week. So much for solving the town conflict. I can’t see all this turning out well.

Act III

Sometimes I feel like Romeos life would make an exciting romantic tragedy. He is madly in love with Juliet who he has to see secretly because they are forbidden to be together; and now they are secretly married. Today, Romeo killed Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, to avenge Mercutio. As a result, he is banished and will probably never be able to be with his wife. I actually think they make a good couple and could last quite a while. I really like how happy she makes him. I’m really *proud of him, as a father would be of his son. Juliet is taking this rather well. I expected her to hate Romeo, but she only hates that her parents have promised her to someone else. Romeo, on the other hand is acting like a child. I should have know when he wanted to marry Juliet, that he has no sense of reason, and doesn’t understand how to use his brain as well as his heart. When he got to my cell, he was crying like a little girl. He was so self absorbed he almost killed himself; before I reminded him Juliet lives to be with him. “Wilt thou slay thyself? And slay thy lady too that lives in thee, by doing damned hate upon thyself.” I told him, when I had a talk with him this afternoon before he went to go see Juliet for the last time. I hope I was able to talk some sense into him. I told him, “Go get thee thy love, as was decreed, ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her.” I’m really *concerned about him. He has an unhealthy amount of passion. As tragic as all this is, I am still *hopeful that their marriage has a small chance of working out and ending the town’s feud. Try your best Romeo! For yourself, Juliet, your families, and the rest of the town. (I’ve always got your back when you need me.)

-Friar Lawrence OUT!

Act II

        Early this morning, I was talking to my flowers in the garden when Romeo came skipping over happier than I’d seen him in a while. I was starting to think he finally hooked up with Rosaline somehow, but he said he was over her. It didn’t make sense. Clearly he had been out all night and I think it was with a girl, but if not Rosaline then who? It was worse than I thought, he is in love with Juliet! If anyone finds out he’ll be killed. He wants me to marry them! That’s the trouble with young people these days. They don’t know how to ease into a relationship. They find what they think is love and throw themselves into it way too fast. I fear that hopeless Romeo will be the one who gets hurt here.

          At the church, I had an idea… What if this isn’t a problem but the solution to all the problems in Verona. If this marriage works out, it would end the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. And I would be the one who gets the credit! Hehehe… Besides, they really like each other. This could work!


-Friar Lawrence OUT!

What has Verona come to?

            Here in the city Verona things have been rough lately, well things have really always been rough. With civil blood being spread on the streets daily, the nobles of our town are corrupting it at the roots. The other day I was performing my daily pharmaceutical routine whilst I happen to over hear some ill-mannered shouts. It was the Caplets Sampson who had bit his thumb at Montague Abraham. Then Tybalt, he who can never stay out of trouble, had to join in and stake the pot a bit. If the prince had never showed up it could have been a lot worst. It’s just plain ridiculous. They never weigh the consequences of their actions before they act. The Montague Romeo seems to be staying out of the fights fairly well. I quite often come across him contemplating deep thoughts in the Grove of Sycamore. He has been depressed for he is in love. In love with one who has vowed never to love him, or any other for that matter. He is stuck on this one girl, because she is his first love and he does not know how to move on.

-Friar Lawrence OUT!