Romeo And Juliet, The Odyssey, And Persepolis

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

Either way, their love was bound to end in a tragic love story. Romeo and Juliet never seemed to be at the right place at the right time. Tybalt didn’t know Romeo and Juliet were married, so he tried to kill Romeo for trying to stop the fight between him and Mercutio. After Romeo’s banishment, Lord Capulet pushed up Juliet’s wedding so she could be married to Paris. Juliet was so upset that her true love had been banished, she considered of ending her life because she could never be with him again. Friar Lawrence said, “take this vial, mix its contents with liquor and drink that night with no one in your room. When they come in to wake you on Thursday morning for the wedding, your body will be lifeless. You will be in a deathlike state for forty - two hours. When your family takes you to the Capulet tomb Romeo will be there to take Mantua. You will have to remain brave and not become scared. Then you will be able to live happily ever after with your true love Romeo.” Friar explained to Juliet how her and Romeo could be together without anyone knowing. All of the secrets between them lead their fates. They never told their parents what they had done, and it ended lives in a heartbreaking mess.

Later on, Romeo and Juliet both kill themselves after seeing each other dead, because both had made each other a part of their identity. Another example is the death of Lady Montague, who in particular had made Romeo part of her life. Her strong bond with Romeo is shown after she was relieved that Romeo was not part of the street fight: “Lady Capulet: Right glad I am he [Romeo] was not at this fray” (Line 1.1.119). Her bond with Romeo was so strong that she died because Romeo’s exile not Romeo’s death: “Montague: Alas, my liege [Prince], my wife is dead tonight. Grief on my son’s exile hath stopped her breath” (Line 5.3.218-220). The bond between characters is one of the strong aspects that make the play, Romeo and Juliet a beautiful tragedy.

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

This led to Juliet’s suicide because by lying and saying she was crying for Tybalt, when she was really upset about the banishement of her secret husband, caused her parents to arrange her marriage with Count Paris. This caused Juliet to fake her own death to escape her marriage, Romeo to believe she actually is dead and kill himself, and then Juliet to wake up from her fake death, see Romeo dead, and kill herself. The secrecy in this plan to escape marrying Count Paris, their secret marriage, and the lies to Juliet’s family, is what leads Romeo and Juliet to their deaths.

The Odyssey By Homer takes us on an interesting adventure of the main character's journey home to his wife. On the way home he is sidetracked by a wide variety of characters. During Odysseus journey, Penelope and his son Telemachus were trying to fight off the suitors a group of men who think Odysseus is dead who are trying to marry Penelope. After 21 years of Odysseus being gone, he appears home in the form of a beggar and kills most of the suitors ending in a bloodbath.

Odysseus Wife, Penelope was a very important character in The Odyssey. Odysseus left for the Trojan War leaving behind his loving wife and newborn son named Telemachus. Penelope had to learn to survive with the circumstances of being the Queen of Ithaca and being left with all the money and power to uphold until Odysseus, The King of Ithaca returned. Her bravery and wisdom help her stay strong and overcome the obstacles that she had to face while her husband was away. The only hope that she had staying strong for her Odysseus hoping that he will return home to her and her son.

In The Odyssey, Penelope and Odysseus have this strong, kind, and sweet love. They are separated for twenty years, but they both stay faithful to one another, even though Odysseus meets these two beautiful and enchantress goddess, and Penelope's suitors trying to marry her ( she never dreams of marrying one of them). When Odysseus comes back from fighting in Troy that lasted for ten years, Penelope-the perfect mate for the wily Odysseus-uses caution and test him. She takes Odysseus back because he knows something only those two know.

In Act IV of Romeo and Juliet, things start looking up for Juliet as Friar Lawrence gives her a potion to fake her death so she will able to escape with Romeo. Hurrying to the Friar’s cell to seek help, Friar Laurence tells Juliet to plead for forgiveness and she would drink a poison that will fake her death for 42 hours. Leaving Friar’s cell Juliet hurries home to plead for forgiveness and that she will agree to Paris’ marriage. After being forgiven Juliet is starting to have doubts about the potion, but drinks it anyways. Going on at the same time, the Capulet family is preparing for the wedding in the morning. In the morning, the Nurse discovers Juliet’s “dead” body and everyone is confused and saddened at the sight of their child

As one can surmise from the tumultuous situations he is forced into over the following years at sea, Odysseus endured great hardships all due to his hubris. His crew was decimated and he was forced to live without his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, for far longer than he ever expected. However, like Gilgamesh, Odysseus is ultimately not ruined by his hubris. Instead, Homer decides to end his tale by finally allowing him to arrive home with “More [gifts] than he ever would have taken out of Troy / Had he come home safely with his share of the loot” (13.142-143), suggesting good fortune in the end for Odysseus. Although he indeed finds trouble at home as his wife has many suitors competing to win her hand in marriage and hoping to kill

Written by Homer, The Odyssey tells of a journey about a hero named Odysseus, who is desperately trying to return home to Ithaca after being forced to go to war. After being gone for 20 years, Odysseus arrives home with countless suitors attempting to marry his wife Penelope. On his journey, he goes through various encounters. During these encounters, he displays several qualities of a hero. For instance, Odysseus’ intelligence, cleverness, human weakness, and braveness make him a hero.

Homer gives Odysseus series of conflicts even to the point of Odysseus returning home after 20 years. When Odysseus is given a chance to compete for Penelope, he does not hesitate in killing the ringleader of the suitors. As a result of Odysseus's determination, he tells them that will not “escape death”(1286). This act proves that he will not let anyone try to get with his women. This sense of courage and determination get him what he wants. In spite of Odysseus conquering this task he still has a more important one ahead. Penelope still has doubts and believe he could just be a trick from the gods. As a result, Telemachus tries to convince his mother that he is the real Odysseus and she does not need to question him. As a

Imagine yourself in a world where you are born into a family that has an ongoing feud with another family. You fall in forbidden love with the heir of the opposing family and plan to get married, but you get put in exile from your hometown while your lover is being forced into marriage with another individual. A short while pasts and things go wrong, you assume your lover has passed away and you return to their family’s grave where they are laid. They are resting on a slab of stone, not moving a muscle, you walk over and drink poison knowing you can’t live without them in your life. A few moments pass and they wake from their rest and find you dead lying on the floor, they pick up a dagger you held and take their own life. This is the tragedy Romeo and Juliet face in the play written by William Shakespeare. At the scene where Juliet is found

Shakespeare manifests the final scene of Romeo and Juliet to illustrate how love triumphs over the terror of death and depicts how the Capulet and Montague parents’ mutual love for their children dismisses the ancient feud. The protagonists, Romeo and Juliet’s preference of being killed rather than “death be prorogued, wanting thy love” (Page 91; Act 2, Scene 2), indicates they would rather die than death be delayed without the fulfilment of each other’s love. Romeo commits suicide as he is unaware that Juliet’s death is fiction, which results in Juliet finding his corpse when she awakens and stabs herself as they both do not wish to live with the absence of each other’s love. Again, Shakespeare portrays that love conquers the most feared prospect of life:

Homer's epic tale The Odyssey is a story of the triumphs and downfalls that are in store for one warrior's long pillage home.  Odysseus, the hero from the Trojan wars, has led his people of Ithaca and other Achaean soldiers to victory and now wishes to return home to his wife and family of Ithaca.  Through his twenty year journey Odysseus is often tested not only of his physical strength, but his wits as well.  The many accomplishments he achieved earned him great status and recognition throughout ancient Greece.  The mistakes he made caused the deaths of many men.  Consequently, we as readers are able to see the many personas that Odysseus carries with him.