Poison In Romeo And Juliet

Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that has many deaths. Two of the most tragic are Romeo and Juliet. Their death was influenced by many characters inside the play, but some had more effect than others. The people most responsible are Mercutio, Tybalt and the Friar.

After the party, Romeo goes to Juliet’s balcony. “He jests at scars that never felt a wound... That I might touch that cheek”(2.1.1-26). Romeo becomes so obsessed with Juliet that he trespasses onto her family’s property, with the risk of being killed, to see her because he thinks he is in love with her. If Romeo had waited to see her again and had taken things a bit slower then they may have been alive at the end of the play.

However, at the party he meets Juliet for the first time, and immediately falls in love with her: “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Romeo, who was in love with Rosaline until a moment ago, completely forgets about her and is now all focused on Juliet. But what is very surprising is not the fact that he is in love with his enemy’s daughter, the astonishing thing is the speed at which he falls in love with her. Soon, in fact, he and Juliet kiss each other: “Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.” However, Romeo’s characteristics to love so deeply Juliet is just a symbol of his lacking the capacity of moderation for intense feelings of all kind. Had Romeo stopped himself from being so deeply caught up by Juliet’s beauty, the tragedy would have never happened.

​Passion. Something that many think they have, when in reality do not. Best described as an incontrollable emotion, passion is often seen as taking a huge role in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Although characters show the qualities associated with being passionate, their true attitudes can be summed up by a different word: obsessive. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare develops the idea that trying to force passion can lead to obsession. In other words, when people deceive themselves into thinking they have passion, they can become obsessive. This is shown repeatedly in Romeo’s character. First through his immediate change of love from Rosaline to Juliet; secondly when he tries to kill

It all started with their eyes meeting for the first time. When their eyes meet again, they just had to be together, but the real question is who brought the lovers to their death. Who is really to Blame? As the two lovers decide to take their lives, someone is at fault for their death.

As a result, this caused him to behave in ways he normally would not have, such as taking his own life because he thought that Juliet was dead. In Document C, the speaker states that “[Romantic love] has all the characteristics of addiction. You focus on the person, you obsessively think about them, you crave them, you distort reality, you are willing to take enormous risks to win this person,” which illustrates that because Romeo was fiercely enamored with Juliet, he was unable to think clearly and this caused him to be rash in his judgement, which led him to kill himself, consequently causing Juliet to commit suicide as

The ending of Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo & Juliet, is devastating yet expected, as the “pair of star-cross’d lovers” (Prologue.9) dramatically kill themselves, leaving their friends and family in pure shock and sadness. In the play, the situations leading up to this dreadful incident should be blamed on the lovers themselves, as well as their secrecy with the absurd relationship that was caused by the couple’s family feud which definitely takes the blame for the double suicide. A long string of events that happened which lead to these deaths, were triggered by these three situations.

Romeo and Juliet killed each other. They were young and had many years ahead. There's plenty of people to fall in love with. They were over dramatic. They only knew each other for a few days and got married. They knew their parents hated each other, but didn't care. That led to their death. They had to hide their love. Romeo killed her cousin and he was sent away. Juliet's father wanted her to marry Paris. Juliet only wanted to be with Romeo. Juliet would go to the extreme to be with him. Even if it took her life. She drank poison to fake her death. She was put in a cellar, and when Romeo went to see her she was dead. Or he thought. He killed himself to be with her. She woke up and saw Romeo dead. So she killed herself. They were being careless and didn't know what true love was. They could have worked things out with

In Act II, scene v, Juliet’s caretaker, the nurse, goes to Romeo for details regarding his upcoming marriage with Juliet. When she returns, she teases Juliet by purposefully not telling her Romeo’s message, and they engaging in a friendly banter. Many exchanges later, the nurse finally tells Juliet the news, and the nurse helps prepare Juliet for the important things that are to come. Juliet’s dialogue with the nurse and change of tone characterize their relationship. Juliet and the nurse share a loving, yet playful relationship.

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is written by William Shakespeare. In this classic tale, two young teenagers fall into a forbidden love. Unable to be together due to their parents being sworn enemies, the two romantics commit suicide rather than be apart. Many devastating events occurr that cause Romeo and Juliet to take such drastic measures, but the strong personalities of Tybalt, Romeo, and the Nurse greatly contribute to the tragic ending.

In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet die, but who is really responsible for their deaths? In this play, Romeo and Juliet’s families hate each other, but, in spite of their families’ rivalry, they get married. The Nurse, Juliet’s caretaker, Friar Lawrence, Romeo’s mentor, and Balthasar, Romeo’s page, encouraged the marriage between the star-crossed lovers and even helped them. Their friends and family, however, were kept in the dark about this development. Lord Capulet didn’t know of Juliet’s marriage to Romeo, so he forced her to marry Paris. Juliet faked her death to get out of this marriage, which led Romeo to buy poison and kill himself. Juliet soon followed Romeo in committing

Today’s world, 2016, an average of 1 person every 15 minutes commits suicide a day in the United States. When someone loses a loved one they ask, why that person did such a grand action. Was it work, school, or family that caused such emotional trauma? Even with direct reasons pointing to those close to a depressed person, people always blame the one who physically did the killing, the suicidal person. But what if they were pressured to do things they didn’t want to, harassed about choices they made, or ignored for the things they liked? All of these things happened to Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, the Shakespeare play containing two star-crossed lovers, two enemy families, and two suicides that have stood the test of time and has captured the

Romeo frequently displays how vulnerable he is to any form of issue before he even attends the Capulet party and meets Juliet. As for Romeo’s lovesickness, Dr. Stanton Peele notices that “Shakespeare begins the play with a long development of Romeo's withdrawal from his previous affair with Rosaline-he is so disconsolate he is already threatening suicide- well before he meets Juliet!” (Peele 2009). Considering that his only issue with Rosaline is that she does not love him - suicide is a major overreaction to this . Unrequited love, while painful to those who experience it, is in no way a reason for suicide. Even so, it requires Benvolio’s persuasion to keep Romeo from killing himself over something as insignificant as an unrequited crush. When he does meet Juliet later at the play, he goes from one extreme to the next, which Dr. Stanton Peele explains by saying “Note that Romeo goes instantaneously from pathological lovesickness to total infatuation” (Peele 2008). From one glimpse, his love consumes all of his thoughts and actions. He then proceeds to drag her down with him into his insanity-disguised as true love. Chaos unfolds as what they think is love at first sight spirals into an endless cacophony of fighting and death. Later through the play, the two lovers continue speaking of suicide-all in the name of

Is Romeo and Juliet a Shakesperian play full of love at first sight or just rash and consequential decisions? In this play we meet two star crossed lovers who meet at a party on one night and then, almost instataneously, plegde themselves for each other and plan to marry, which then leads to six people dying including themselves. Romeo and Juliet should have taken it slow with their affairs in order to eliminate the violence and death that ensued from them falling in love, encourage a healthier road to peace in order to unite both families, and to better encourage a more joyful relationship, as mentioned by Friar Lurence.

The play is so well known since it shows the deepest example of passion. The proclamation of love for the first time between Juliet and Romeo adds a great deal of passion to the play, as it helps develop their journey of love. In the balcony scene, Juliet expresses to Romeo, “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,/My love as deep. The more I give to thee,/ The more I have, for both are infinite” (Shakespeare 2. 2. 133-135). Juliet reveals to Romeo that the more love she gives him, the more love she has, and that her love for him is limitless. Additionally, the passion that Romeo and Juliet share is violent and disobedient. As Friar Laurence tells Romeo, “These violent delights have violent ends/And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,/Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey/Is loathsome in his own deliciousness/And in the taste confounds the appetite./Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so./Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow” (2.6. 9-15). The Friar tries to notify Romeo that his and Juliet's intense passion may end violently, as they go behind their parents backs to get married. As a result, this passion lead to the lovers death. Little did Romeo and Juliet know that something so bad could come out of their intense passion. Romeo says,