Friar John

Friar John is a friend of Friar Lawrence. Due to this relationship, he is entrusted with a letter that he must deliver to Romeo. This letter had all the information about Juliet’s plan and how her death was merely being simulated. Friar John is never told of the utter importance of the letter and as such he does not employ drastic measures in order to get the letter to Romeo when he is frightened to enter Mantua due to the plague epidemic.