(i) The Friar challenges Romeo by chiding him to make him feel ashamed of his irrational and unmanly behavior. ‘Art thou a man?’, ‘Thy tears are womanish’, and he goes on and says that Romeo is a man physically but on the inside, he is a woman, later on referring to Romeo as a beast. ‘Unseemly woman in a seeming man, / An ill-beseeming beast in seeming both’ shows how the Friar challenges Romeo. The Friar comforts Romeo by reminding him that things could have turned out far worse than his banishment and attempts to renew his hope by proposing a plan that Romeo could use to be able to still see Juliet. Romeo sort of accepts the Friar’s approach to comfort him but nonetheless, still feels depressed at his banishment as he is unable to see Juliet for quite a while if he leaves Verona. (ii) I feel that the exchange between the Friar and Romeo seems like the Friar is acting as a fatherly figure to Romeo. He challenges him in a way a father does to make Romeo act more manly and have more faith in himself. The exchange between the Friar and Romeo shows that the Friar is more fatherly, has a stronger mindset and is more optimistic in handling stuffs, which is shown through his comfort for Romeo. However, Romeo is weaker in a sense that he feels totally hopeless and depressed just by the fact that he is banished, and moping around just because of the fact that he thinks that he couldn’t see Juliet anymore after he is banished. Hence, the Friar and Romeo are vastly different in their characters, where the Friar is more logical and Romeo is more ‘womanly’ (‘Thy tears are womanish’) which can be seen through their exchange in this scene.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 06:15:13 +0000
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