What are Friar Laurence's views on love in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ?

We learn
several things in the second act about 's perspective on love. In particular, we learn that
Friar Laurence views youth as fickle and youth's love as insincere. We also learn that he thinks
the heated, passionate love thatshare is not genuine love and likely to die soon. Finally, we
also learn that he believes that love can put an end to hate.

We see Friar
Laurence express his view that youths are fickle as a result of insincere love when we see him
reprimandfor changing so suddenly from loving Rosaline to loving, as we see in the lines,
"Young men's love then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes"
(II.iii.68-69). In other words, Friar Laurence is accusing Romeo and all young men of equating
love with physical attraction, which is not the strongest, most sincere form of love. When Romeo
defends himself, declaring, "Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline," we further see
Friar Laurence accuse Romeo of insincere love when he...