Question

What can you infer about Friar Laurence from the line in bold?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

JULIET
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life:
I'll call them back again to comfort me:
Nurse! What should she do here?
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Come, vial.
What if this mixture do not work at all?
Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?
No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.
What if it be a poison, which the friar
Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,
For he hath still been tried a holy man.
How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point!
Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
Or, if I live, is it not very like,
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place,—
As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
Where, for these many hundred years, the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed:
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
At some hours in the night spirits resort;—
Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth,
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:—
O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,
Environed with all these hideous fears?
And madly play with my forefather's joints?
And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?
And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone,
As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?
O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost
Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body
Upon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay!
Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.
For he hath still been tried a holy man.- IS THE BOLDED WORDS

Answer 3

Friar Laurence is known to be a coward.
Friar Laurence is a trustworthy man.
Friar Laurence has killed people before.
Friar Laurence once served time in jail.

Answer 4

Hello Love!

I read the sentence and what I am getting is that if he's a "Holy Man" then he wouldn't be a killer or that he's been to jail. That means C and D are incorrect. If you're known as holy I doubt that people would think of you as a coward. So A is incorrect as well. So the only thing that makes sense is that B is the answer because we can associate being trust worthy to a holy man.

Hope that helps you out a bit! <3

Answer 5

But what about when it says he "tried" to be a holy man (also this is my question, i posted this from my brothers account cause it was already logged in)

Answer 6

"For he hath still been tried a holy man."

@IshipDestiel

I still think that it's B. since if you tried to be a holy man I think that you would have to be even a bit trustworthy (or act like it).

Answer 7

I will try it ( ill let you know if its right) also could you help on a few more

Answer 8

nevermined I got a 90 A, and you were right thank you so much

Answer 9

No Problem Love! Happy to help you out :D @IshipDestiel