Giovanni And Lusanna Love And Marriage In Renaissance Florence

Since the reader does not hear from Lusanna, many questions are left unanswered. For instance, we know that “the letter had been brought to the palace by Antonio di Benedetto” (Brucker, 13). This letter was the one to commence the long court case between Giovanni and Lusanna. Because Lusanna was not the one to initiate the case, firstly because women could only be represented by their legal guardians, and because we don’t hear her perspective on why it was initiated, it is unclear if Lusanna even wanted to appeal the marriage in the first place. From the accounts given by witnesses “nearly all eighteen witnesses called by Giovanni’s procurators reported, either as personal judgment or as public rumor, that Lusanna was a woman of low moral character” (Brucker 27).

To turn your households’ rancor to pure love. ”(2.3.91-92) but it did not. Also, before they got married Friar Laurence asked the heavens to smile upon the marriage so nothing unfortunate happens, “So smile the heavens upon this act / That after hours of sorrow chide us not.

Because Friar Laurence signed off on their marriage,

At the beginning of the play, Romeo goes to Friar Lawrence in hopes that he will marry him and Juliet the next day. The Friar agrees, but only in hopes that uniting Romeo and Juliet, will unite the Montague and Capulet families at last, ending their feud. “For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households’ rancour to pure love” (II, iii, 91-92). After the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, many things go wrong; such as when Romeo gets exiled for killing Tybalt, when Capulet engages Juliet to Paris, when Balthasar delivers news of Juliet’s death to Romeo, and many deaths that could have been prevented, including Juliet and Romeo’s. After the Prince’s watchmen discover Romeo and Juliet dead in the Capulet family tomb, Friar Lawrence admits to marrying them and tells the Prince of Romeo and Juliet’s story: “Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet;

Due to the feud, Romeo and Juliet must get married secretly and they are allowed to do so because of friar lawrence.

Friar Lawrence didn’t want to marry Romeo and Juliet, he knew they were rushing the marriage, but he married them anyway to try and stop the feud between the Capulets and Montagues. Romeo and Juliet rushed into their marriage and because of that there were many consequences after. One consequence is when Friar

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Shortly after Romeo and Juliet first meet, they decide to have an “exchange of [their] love’s faithful vow”, meaning a vow of marriage (Shakespeare 2.2.127). The two characters turn to Friar Laurence to officiate the marriage. While Friar Laurence agrees, his hopes for the marriage were not to make Romeo and Juliet happy, but rather to mend the feud between their families. He believes the “alliance” between the two would “turn [their] households’ rancor to pure love” (Shakespeare 2.3.90-92). Friar Laurence has other priorities that he sees as more important than the newlyweds and their happiness.

He was trying to help reunite the families by doing this but he didn't think it all the way through so out of stupidity he married them. The quote to support to support this claim is from when the Friar is about to marry the two in the street with the help of the Nurse, as they are waiting he pulls Romeo aside and gives him some luck. “"So smile the heavens upon this holy act / That after-hours with sorrow chide us not!” (Act II Scene VI lines 1-2 Shakespeare). In other words he’s saying,  May the heavens be happy with this holy act of marriage, so nothing unfortunate happens later to make us regret it.

Friar Laurence contributes to the events that leads to the lover’s deaths when he agrees to marry them after being angry at Romeo for loving the daughter of Capulet. FRIAR LAURENCE: “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be;/ For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.” (2.3.98-100) As a result of Friar Laurence’s decision to marry the two, Romeo and Juliet’s fate is sealed. By choosing to turn the two households to pure love by marrying the star-crossed lovers allow this tragedy to

Friar Laurence had both reasons and doubts in marrying Romeo and Juliet. Right before he marries them at the end of Act II, the Friar exclaims “So smile the heavens upon this holy act That after-hours with sorrow chide us not,” (II.vi.1-2). Here, Friar Laurence is asking heaven to bless Romeo and Juliet’s marriage so that there will be nothing of consequence come after it. He asks for this blessing

Giovanni’s Room Love is a funny thing, it doesn’t always turn out the way we want it too and we can’t choose who we love. The main theme of James Baldwin’s story “Giovanni’s Room” is that love is difficult, scary, and not always what you expect. Although many people thrive on the love they feel for someone, David finds it to be a terrifying and confusing thing. In “Giovanni’s Room” David is reflecting on how he found love when he less expected it and was afraid, saddened, and even a little ashamed by it.

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