How Did Romeo And Juliet Break The Law

Romeo makes hasty decisions that end up harming him and the people he loves. In scene three of act five, Romeo drinks the poison to end his life as he proclaims, “Here’s to my love! O true apothecary, Thy

Romeo and Juliet throughout the story, show an extreme sense of loyalty that goes along with their deep “love”. This loyalty leads them to kills themselves because they can not be with one another. Romeo is lamenting the “loss” of his wife when he says, “Beauty’s ensign yet/ Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, /And death’s pale flag is not advancèd there” (5.3.103-105). Romeo notices that Juliet does not even look dead. He says that “death’s pale flag is not advancèd” meaning the look of death has not come upon her yet. This makes his decision to kill himself even more rash because despite still seeing color in her, he drinks the poison anyways. He drinks the poison because of his loyalty and, dies unnecessarily because of the rashness his loyalty caused. Death had not “advancèd” on Juliet because moments after Romeo kills himself she wakes up. The Friar comes in and Juliet, distraught over Romeo’s death sends him away and says, “O, happy dagger,/ This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die” (5.3.174-175). Without even stopping to consider what has happened, she kills herself. She calls the dagger “happy” meaning it's good that she found it. She finds this dagger seconds after she learns Romeo is dead. Being so quick to kill herself is impulsive. Her use of the word “happy” shows that she wants to kill herself because she can not have Romeo. Her loyalty to Romeo gives her the incentive to commit suicide, a rash decision. To prove that people act rashly when they love someone Shakespeare uses Romeo and Juliet's tragic

Romeo and Juliet both suicide after seeing each other dead. After Romeo hears about Juliet’s death, he goes to her tomb to see her one last time and kiss her before he suicides. “Here’s to my love. O true apothecary,/Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die”(V.iii.119-120). Romeo should have overlooked his quick thoughts of suicide, and should have realized how much he still had to live for. The aftermath of this action was that both Romeo and Juliet both end up dead in the final tragedy. After Juliet sees Romeo dead, she decides to kill herself with a dagger. “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O, happy dagger,/This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die”(V.iii.174-175). This evidence is an example of the consequences that can occur after a hasty, sad-driven decision. If Romeo did not suicide while under the influence of his emotions, both Romeo and Juliet would have lived, and the ultimate, final tragedy of the play would have been avoided, but instead, Romeo’s emotions misguided him to choose the awful decision of suicide. These actions reveal how quickly sadness leads to horrendous repercussions due to the actions that it

her so much, he says "For nothing can be ill if she be well". The love

Justice is defined as being fair, right, or lawful. To determine if an action is just, the question “was it morally right or wrong” must be answered. In law today, justice is determined through written rules or laws. Similarly, the novel Romeo and Juliet uses the idea of justice, for two lovers have families are at war, which creates great tension throughout the families. The two families, the Montagues and the Capulets often begin riots throughout the streets of Verona, which causes many complications for Romeo and Juliet, as well as challenges the idea of justice. In the novel Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, justice was not achieved through the Prince’s ruling.

The suicide committed by both Juliet and Romeo demonstrates their blinding love and how they would rather love each other or not live at all. For example Romeo says,”Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe. That unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean abhorrèd monster keep. Thee here in dark to be his paramour? For fear of that, I still will stay with thee.” Romeo says that we would rather die with Juliet than live without her. This is a very powerful moment in the play, because it resembles that love is a poison that can kill. In reality, it is very unlikely to be able declare your love for someone only after three days. Truthfully, I believe that Romeo and Juliet didn’t love each other but fell in the love with the idea of each other, making both of them make ignorant decisions. Romeo and Juliet die because their young foolish love possessed them to do rash unintelligent things. In addition, this is another scene that demonstrates love's

He sees love as much more than simply physical, like Mercutio does, but unlike Benvolio, he does not understand how to handle the heartbreak that comes with love. “Th’ exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine” (Act 2 Scene 2 Line 134). Right after meeting Juliet, Romeo sneaks to her house and asks her to marry him. This was simply out of impulse, as just before the party, he was still heartbroken over the fact that Rosaline wanted to become a nun. But as soon as he saw Juliet, he “fell in love”. “Here's to my love… with a kiss I die” (Act 5 Scene 3 Lines 119 and 120). Here, Romeo kills himself because he thought that JUliet was dead. He believed that he was so in love with her that he could not live without her. Romeos irrational behavior ultimately lead to his demise. Although Romeo is a male character, he was very sensitive and had many feminine traits. Shakespeare created Romeo this way to show that it was okay for men to feel attached in love, and so that anybody in the audience that felt similarly to him would be able to

Juliet proves that emotion is the enemy of decision making through her actions with Friar Lawrence and her family. Capulet pressures Juliet to marry Paris at the church on Thursday, but Juliet persistently declines. After Juliet’s fight with Capulet and Lady Capulet, she states, “I’ll to the Friar to know his remedy. If all else fails, myself have power to die” (3.5.242-243). Juliet is explaining her last resort if all else fails. Instead of Juliet contemplating about her own death, she should have considered making other plans to resolve her issues. Additionally, Juliet goes on to to drink a potion that makes her seem dead for two days so that she will be able to be with Romeo, who was banished from Verona. Friar Lawrence gives the potion to Juliet saying, “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off, when presently through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse shall keep his native progress, but surcease” (4.1.96-100). Juliet then accepts the potion stating, “Give me, give me! O, tell not me fear!” (4.1.124). Juliet lets her love for Romeo rein supreme and influence her to drink something that could kill her, just so that she could be with Romeo. Because Juliet caved in, she will pay for her mistakes

As the story of Romeo and Juliet further progresses, Romeo’s true character becomes more and more apparent; he seems to act solely by impulse. Romeo acts moreso with his emotions, and sudden thoughts than his brain which stores reason and logic. This causes for tragedy and unfortunate circumstance by the end of the poem. This shows how impulsive he is in most of his decisions and how he tends to be very dramatic in everything that he does. When Romeo discovers that Juliet is dead, he almost immediately dramatically decides to drink poison, to kill himself. “Here’s to love, O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick - thus with a kiss I die.” Which shows how quickly he makes wrash and dramatic decisions without thinking it through. If Romeo had not been so careless and impulsive in his decision, Juliet would have awoken and they would both still be alive.

apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” (Shakespeare 5.3 119-120) This quote shows without even thinking Romeo hastily kills himself. If Romeo waited a couple of minutes more, or even confronted Friar about Juliet, they could have lived happily ever after. Instead, Romeo and

As Shakespeare writes in Romeo and Juliet, “There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls”(5.2.84). This shows Romeo buying poison which he will use later to kill him self. When Romeo arrives to the fake grave of Juliet he takes the poison and kills himself. As Shakespeare writes in Romeo and Juliet, “Here’s to my love. O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thou with a kiss I die”(5.3.119-120). After Romeo killing himself Juliet awakes from her sleep and see’s Romeo is dead and kills herself to. As Shakespeare writes in Romeo and Juliet, Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O, happy dragger, this is thy sheath, there rust, and let me die. This shows Juliet killing herself after seeing Romeo

Romeo’s hate towards Tybalt for killing Mercutio leads him to make irrational decisions. He is so blinded by hate, that he kills Tybalt. Up until Mercutio’s murder, Romeo loves Tybalt for his relation to Juliet. This can be seen when Romeo says “ but love thee better than thou canst devise till thou shalt know the reason of my love;”(3.1.65-66). The murder of Tybalt prompts Prince Escalus to sentence Romeo with banishment to Mantua where he learns of the so-called “death” of his Juliet. This news urges Romeo to visit the nearest chemist to ask for a vial of poison that will “disperse itself through all the veins”(5.1.65). The hasty decision to use this poison as a means of death stems from the unknown hate between the two families as well as the death of Mercutio and Juliet. Juliet had no other option than to turn to the sleeping poison, for fear that if she didn’t take the potion, she would have to marry Count Paris. Lord Capulet threatened to disown Juliet if she refused to marry Count Paris, as her parents had wished. Romeo and Juliet’s hate for the feud between their families is what prompts them to end their

In the very last scene of the play, Romeo goes back to Verona to go lay with his “dead” wife – who is actually under the influence of a death-like drug – after hearing from his servant about her death. He travels with his trustworthy servant all the way to the tomb, but when they reach the tomb, Romeo asks for his servant to leave. Romeo, in his obsession-driven self, threatens to tear his servant limb from limb and scatter his remains across the graveyard if he doesn’t leave Romeo. This shows that Romeo is losing himself. He isn’t just a man who likes the idea of love, he’s a man who drives himself insane with the idea of love. Even though his love for Juliet can be summed down to beauty, his mind amplifies his feelings for her. Towards the end of Act 5, Scene 3, Romeo drinks poison to “join” Juliet in her death. Romeo even goes as far as to call the poison a cordial because he believes that it will heal him – heal his pain of not being with Juliet. This shows that, Romeo’s obsessive nature made his irrational decision seem rational. A relationship to heal him from his pain of Rosaline turned into a relationship that ended with death. His mind created his feelings towards Juliet, yet he continued to let himself be deceived. His made-up passion-driven obsession with Juliet ultimately led to his

In the play Romeo and Juliet, a lot of death occurred from both families. Friar Laurence did not physically kill them, but the actions he did lead up to death. Specially the death of Romeo and Juliet was caused because of friar Laurence's plan. Juliet took the potion and Romeo was so devastated that she had died. So when he went to visit her when she was in the tomb he took his own potion and killed himself. Romeo did that because he had no knowledge that she was alive. He did not know that she was just in a coma waiting for him to rescue her. He did not know of any of this because friar Laurence did not get Romeo the letter. He may have sent him the letter, but he did not make sure he got it. Friar Laurence could have went to Romeo to make sure he knew of the plan, but he didn't. So when Romeo takes the potion his last words are, "Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." He loved Juliet so much he would die to be with her. The irony of this was she was still alive and when she awoke she say her love lying dead beside her. She was so sad to see him there she kissed him and said, "Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, To make die with a restorative." She wanted to die because her happiness was with Romeo. There was no one else that she could love, so her only choice for her to be happy was to kill herself to be with Romeo. The thing was it didn't have to end up like this meaning there

Since Friar Laurence's letter to Romeo describing the plan wasn´t delivered to him on time, when he received the news from Benvolio he ignored the fact that he was kicked out of Verona and went. During his journey to see Juliet, he quickly stops to buy poison. He asks the pharmacist to sell him the strongest poison he has. The pharmacist denies at first, but the gives in when he sees the mount of money Romeo offered him. After Romeo has gotten the poison he goes to see Juliet´s ¨dead¨ body to die by her side. Romeo lies by Juliet, kisses her one last time and drinks the poison. When Juliet wakes up from her sleep, she wakes up to see her now lifeless husband lying next to her. Juliet is really confused and doesn´t understand what is going on until she sees the bottle of poison in Romeos hands. Quickly, she kisses Romeo's lips, hoping to get some left over poison from them. She fails, sees the knife in Romeo's pocket, and stabs herself. The fact that they were what took up each others minds was why ones death was such a big impact on the other individual. It was the grief of Juliet's death that killed Romeo, and the grief of Romeos death that killed Juliet. It was their own decision to kill themselves influenced by no one but themselves. Instead of killing themselves, they could have tried to figure something out and could have talked to their parents about it. Like an elementary teacher said, "They