Romeo And Juliet And The Odyssey

From the very prologue of Romeo and Juliet, we are informed by Shakespeare that these two “star-cross’d lovers” are going to “take their life”. For the rest of the play, we are left to observe how they kill themselves and who or what leads them into doing so. However, placing the blame on one person or event would be impossible, as nobody was directly responsible for their demise. Instead, everything that could possibly have gone wrong did go wrong. Although both Romeo and Juliet end up thinking it was their own decision to kill themselves, there were many other factors that unwittingly forced them into the situation they eventually found themselves.

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

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet take their own lives believing that the other had died. While Romeo and Juliet are ultimately to blame for their deaths, they may have had some help along the way. Romeo and Juliet killed themselves because they believed they could not go on living without having the other in their life. Had characters such as Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence, and the nurse made smarter decisions in certain situations, the two lovers could have lived to see another day.

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we meet the characters and how their actions led to a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet met, end up falling in love, and – since both cannot dream of living without the other – take their lives. While the play ends in a tragic death for both characters, it was their own reckless decisions; though others might believe that it was destiny that played a large role in the lovers’ downfall. However, the majority of the text evidence points to them making their own choices leading to their demise.

Homer’s “The Odyssey” takes place ten years after the events in “The Iliad”, to which the Odyssey is an indirect sequel, and the fall of Troy; even though the story is believed to have been composed some time during the eight century B.C.E. it is estimated to be set sometime between 1300 and 1000 B.C.E. in Mycenaean Greece during the Bronze age. In this novel all Greek heroes have returned home after the fall of Troy, except for Odysseus who after a three year journey has been held captive by the goddess Calypso, who has fallen in love with him, on her island, Ogygia. After the ten years have passed Odysseus is presumed dead, his wife Penelope is courted, and his estate is auctioned off by the Suitors, the young men of Ithaca who attempt to win Penelope’s favor and hand in marriage.

Immediately after he heard that Juliet was “dead,” Romeo cried, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight./ Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift/ To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!/ I do remember an apothecary.” Feeling hopeless and desperate without Juliet, Romeo made the impulsive decision of buying a deleterious potion in order for him to die beside his lover. His hasty manners caused him to make an abrupt choice of committing suicide in the spur of the moment. Because Juliet woke up moments later only to find Romeo dead beside her, she too, felt that life was unbearable without her lover and ended up stabbing herself. Had Romeo patiently thought through his actions instead of violently acting on impulse, both he and Juliet could have lived. Therefore, their deaths was not a result of fate, for Romeo had hastily decided to poison himself before he could receive the message of the hoax and Juliet ultimately chose to stab herself once she woke up to see that Romeo had misunderstood the situation and killed himself beside

The Odyssey, a text written by Homer, originates from Ionia (a part of Asia Minor). This epic poem relates the journeys of both Odysseus and Telemachus. During their journeys, they encounter a wide variety of hosts. Telemachus provides Mentes a great meal and is later also given a feast from King Nestor. In addition, King Nestor also gifted Telemachus two horses and a chariot; Athena gave Telemachus the gift of wise advice, for which he used to go on his journey. And as their paths crossed in a meeting back in Ithaca, Odysseus is given food and allowed to rest by Telemachus just as his emotional need had been cared for by Alcinous through ending the lyre’s tune. The figures that host Odysseus and Telemachus during their travels highlight the importance of hospitality. As revealed by The Odyssey, the Ancient Greeks valued feasting, gift giving, and caring for the need of the guest as important values of hospitality.

Let’s be honest people don’t fall in love overnight and even if they do that doesn’t mean that you should get married the next day and kill yourselves over it. Were these two lovesick people the reason of their own deaths? They did make there own decision to kill themselves that night, “What’s here? A cup, closed in my true love’s hand?/Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.—/O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop/To help me after? I will kiss thy lips./Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,/To make me die with a restorative.”(V.III.173-180).Juliet could have lived a long and happy life. She had other option other than marrying County Paris she could have ran away to start a new life without her parents controlling her every move. Romeo could have done the same, once he went to see the body he could have said his vows gave her a kiss and moved on with his life. It did not need to end his way, it may have seemed like all hope was lost once the other had died but life moves on and things get better. So maybe Romeo and Juliet made there own choices the night they killed themselves. They had many other options but they decided that they could not live without each other and being dead would be better than anything lie could have gave them. So Romeo and Juliet played a humongous part in their own

In the well known tragedy by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet , two teenagers from opposing families have “fallen in love”. They quickly and irrationally get married by Friar Lawrence, who is a trusted adviser to the both of them. Everything is working fine until Romeo and Juliet's cousin fight, and Tybalt dies. Juliet is grieving over Tybalt's death, but even more disturbed by Romeo’s banishment. After being secretly marrying Romeo and him gone, her parents tell her to marry Paris, in attempt to regain happiness in the family once again. After being counseled by the Friar, Juliet decides to fake her death. Romeo does not receive the message explaining this, and quickly rushes to Juliet’s tomb. He is grief stricken, and does

The Odyssey by Homer tells the story of a Greek warrior named Odysseus, who faces challenges placed upon him by the supernatural, or more specifically, the Greek gods and monsters. His journey begins while sailing home from Troy, where Odysseus had won the Trojan war for the Greeks. Odysseus’ ship is forced to dock on many islands, most of which have hostile environments. Odysseus serves as the model for an epic hero, a fictional character who possesses many traits admirable to his or her society. The character also follows a code of honor and is willing to sacrifice themselves for the weak, such as women or children. Though this idea comes from an ancient story, it is relevant in modern popular culture. For example, Harry Potter, a hero

In order to get out of her situation, Juliet fakes her death and plans to run away with Romeo. Unaware her death was fake, Romeo decides to kill himself. When Juliet finds him dead, she kills herself as well. Once their families learn of their deaths and secret love, their feud is ended. Throughout this play, the characters blame fate for the tragedies that occur.

In the epic poem, “The Odyssey” by Homer, it starts with Odysseus on the island of Calypso twenty years after he left for the Trojan War. The gods are were discussing what to do with Odysseus. Athena wanted to let Odysseus return home safely, while Poseidon didn’t. Athena disguised as Mentor, a family friend of Telemachus, visited him at a party. Telemachus talked to Athena, and she told him the procedures on how to find out if Odysseus is alive or dead. Telemachus followed Athena’s advice and gets ready for his quest to find his father, but Antinous, one of Penelope’s suitors, did not want to leave without knowing who would be Penelope’s husband. The other suitors did not care if Penelope chose or not, so Telemachus decided to go on

One day Homer’s friends invited him to a beach, saying that is was the most popular ocean in the world. But, he forgot his bathing suit, luckily his friend said that he had one that would fit him as the paper on the wall. He found it in the basement, when he was putting it on he noticed that the suit was not his size it was for a much smaller person and his arms were sticking through where a couple of mice had made holes. When he finally arrived at the beach he noticed that everyone was staring at him, a cluster of people gathered around him, talking excitedly and laughing, girls stopped talking when they saw him and turned away, some boys came up to him and began to make personal remarks. Soon he left the party and hurried for the water his

The Odyssey is a long and a very powerful story that is told, and it is a sequel to the story, the Iliad. The story starts the narrator asks the “Muse” for inspiration as he begins. In the beginning of the story, we see many appearances of Minerva, god of wisdom and war. At the council of the gods, she is bargaining with Zeus, but then leaves to see Telemachus, son of Odysseus. She then disguises herself as a Mentor and travels with him to find his father from Calypso Island to Sparta. After the second council with the gods, Calypso is forced to let Odysseus go. Calypso was a woman who captured Odysseus due to the act of love. She was forced to let him go. As Odysseus escapes, Poseidon, an enemy of Odysseus, destroys his ship that he and Calypso

The Odyssey was one of the greatest books of all time. The Odyssey is the second part of an epic poem, the first part of the poem being The Iliad, written by Homer near the end of the 8th Century BCE. The Odyssey took place after the Trojan War, as the protagonist Odysseus returns home from the war with his men, he and his men landed on the island of the Lotus Eaters, where his men ate the fruit and did not want to leave. They left and sailed to the land of the Cyclops, where they discovered the cave of Polyphemus, a Cyclops. The Cyclops came home to Odysseus and his men eating his food, so he ate a few men, drank some liquor and fell asleep, as he was asleep, Odysseus and his men to pierced the Cyclops’ eye with a wooden rod and escaped. As they were leaving, the Cyclops put a curse on Odysseus and his men making it difficult to return home.