He is selfish and left before Juliet ended her life. “She wakes, and I entreated her come forth, / And bear this work of heaven with patience. / But then a noise did scare me from the tomb, / And she, too desperate, would not go with me, / But, as it seems, did violence on herself” (V, iii, 260-264). Friar Laurence became selfish. Juliet’s death could have been prevented, but he put his own life and reputation before a young girl. He also knows the couple is rushing, but he does not try to stop them from marrying. “Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast” (II, iii, 94). Friar Laurence is so caught up with being able to find a way to unite the family, he does not realize his advice. In one of his plans, he does not realize that Romeo could find out about Juliet’s fake death without the letter and would think her fake death is actually real. “Romeo! O, pale!—Who else? What, Paris too? / And steeped in blood?—Ah, what an unkind hour / Is guilty of this lamentable chance! / The lady stirs” (V, iii,