5. I would say that Friar Laurence and the maid are Nurse villains in this story. Though they are not the typical villains, they are villains. The nurse and Friar Laurence are both villains in the sense that they do evil acts by ruining others lives and causing chaos throughout the story. Many if not all of the consequences are from either the Nurse or Friar Laurence. Neither the Nurse nor Friar Laurence acts as a good leader. Nor do they even think about what kind of advice they are giving, and what type of ideas they are promoting to Romeo and Juliet.
The typical villain in a story is a person who is obviously causing evil of some sort and is creating very chaotic situations. In this play the villains are represented by the leaders of the characters moral world. This idea alone is probably meaning that Shakespeare often questioned the moral leaders of his time, or that there were really bad moral leader of his time in his opinion at least. The Nurse and Friar Laurence are put in the position where they are primarily the only powerful influence on their victims. Romeo and Juliet are not very old, and still somewhat really on other people to make their choices. Their choices are realized on the thoughts of the villains on this story.
Romeo really depends on Friar Laurence when he talks to him about Juliet. Friar Laurence does not really care so much as to what might happen to Romeo as he does that Romeo is happy with the results. Juliet’s Nurse is really concerned on getting her married and does not care about what anyone else thinks. Together there is Friar Laurence who is planning to make Romeo happy, and then there is the Nurse who agrees with everything that he does because it will get Juliet married sooner. Although the Nurse does do make some bad choices for Juliet, hers are not as bad as the actions of Friar Laurence because Laurence only pays attention to what is going to happen to Romeo and not others. Also because Romeo and Friar Laurence are both lead characters in the play, which means they are going to be the first to act, and others will then react upon what they do.
As a result of not thinking about the advice that they (the advisors) give, many plans only work until they come in contact with other people in the play. An example of this is the idea of Romeo marring Juliet. The plan would have worked fine until Capulet would have found out. The main problem as to why Friar keeps giving advice, besides that fact that he is who he is) is that he himself is not following out what might happen if anything goes wrong. He also fails when thinking about how his planned situations might look to the second or more person(s).
Throughout the whole story, it is seen that Romeo and Juliet turn to their wonderful moral advisors for some advice, but only seem to receive part of what is going to happen. Romeo and Juliet who are you people and still somewhat depend on others think very highly of the two villains. As far as they know they are doing the best thing ever for them. The interesting thing is that the plans go smooth enough for there to be nobody questioning Friar Laurence or the Nurse. Indeed, Romeo is the ultimate cause of the play and its tragedy, but it is primarily Friar Laurence who makes sure that the cause will have some sort of action.
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