We explored two critical areas in Act II (ii) wherein Friar Lawrence appears. First ,we discussed his homily that strained from its fair use virtue turns to vice and vice becomes the right action. We noted how Juliet is breaking social and gender norms by disobeying her father and customs and in this way her prior virtue is "strained' from fair use. We further studied the Friar's exhortation that "they stumble who run fast" suggesting a theory of tragedy that relies more on character flaw than on Fortune or destiny. I explained the metaphorical reference of stumbling or falling as a verbal representation of the tragic fall.