Romeo And Juliet Author's Craft Analysis

My so called "lens" is author's craft. One thing you may notice about my descriptions is they will often contain theme and character development, because, how I view author's craft is how the author sets up the themes and character developments through elements of literature. So, I have to first analyze the metaphors, similes, etc., then describe how those pertain to the theme and characters and finally then relate that to author's craft. William Shakespeare's character Friar Lawrence adds so much to the story, he understands what is happening between Romeo and Juliet, and he tries to help by giving them what they want. He understands just how deep it goes between them and how crazy they are for each other, and just in general. He adds a sane persona to the messed up world of this book, which provides a nice backdrop to Romeo and Juliet. He does this by considering all sides of things, and logically too, he's not flowery or intense he just examines the situation and comes up with the best solution. I would give you some quoted examples but I lost my book, but I do remember this one paragraph in which he's responding to Romeo's request to marry the girl he just met (Juliet).

The director in general made the character Mercutio into more of a dim-witted fool, just to add a little more humor to the story, not only that but it makes Romeo almost seem smart, romantic and dreamy, which he's not, but compared to Mercutio, Paris, Tybalt and every other guy, he seems so. He also made Friar Lawrence more of a father figure which authenticated Romeo and Juliet's marriage in the eyes of the viewer. They had the blessing of one father-figure, so that's all right. Also, most of the Friar's character was lost in the movie, so he seemed much more shallow, and okay with their marriage which lost a lot of the