Today’s Totally Random
Line(s)
The
lady stirs. [Juliet awakes]
Friar Laurence
Romeo and Juliet Act V, Scene iii, Line 147
It’s
Friar Knucklehead talking today. Sounds like a movie title, doesn’t it? The Lady Stirs, starring Joan Crawford.
Maybe it was. I don’t know. However, for today it’s not a movie title, it’s
Friar Knucklehead seeing Juliet waking up. Romeo is already dead, and what’s
the first thing Juliet says?
O comfortable friar! Where is my lord?
Comfortable friar: that’s an odd adjective, isn’t it?
Comfortable? And she’s about to get from him anything but comfort when he tells
her in his next lines that Romeo is dead. But of course, Friar Comfortable is a
step ahead of her. He’s already got the next move mapped out.
Come, I’ll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of
holy nuns.
Sure, she was planning on waking up and finding her love
Romeo and spending the rest of her life with him.
But he’s dead, says
Knucklehead, so get moving and I’ll have you settled in a nice comfy convent for the
rest of your life. It’s almost the same thing. No need to thank me.
Friar Comfortable! Yah, I don’t think so. Let’s stick with
Friar Knucklehead.
2 comments:
Did "Comfortable" have another meaning...?
Was the real end of the story that Juliet ended up in a convent?
Um, Romeo and Juliet? She dies.
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