Unlike Romeo, Friar Laurence deals with crisis fairly well when he has time to reflect. Given enough time, he can place whatever happened into his philosophical system and find comfort. In Act V, on two occasions, he has no time to reflect and must simply act. What does he do?
Friar Laurence melodramatically takes all the blame on himself. He tells the guards to take him because he has already condemned himself, he thinks it is all his fault.
Friar Lorenz is a Franciscan, confidant of Romeo. He is portrayed in the plot as someone sensible who can act in moments of pressure quite rationally when he has time to reflect on something. However, in the last act of Romeo and Juliet, he, acting on impulse and emotion, takes the blame for the tragedy that happened to the young couple and asks to be arrested because his soul has already condemned him.
