“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” The tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet sets in fair Verona, Italy. It follows two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. In William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare reveals that the pair of star-crossed lovers were destined to fail through the many different events in the play such as the feud between the Montagues and Capulets, the death of Tybalt and the mimicry of Juliet’s death.
The two noble families, the Capulets and the Montagues possess an ancient grudge with each other, with the streets of Verona being their battleground for bloodshed, which helps drive the plot of the story to it’s tragic ending.
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Moments before the duel between Romeo and Tybalt took place, a heated argument took place between Mercutio and Tybalt. This resulted in the two drawing their swords and engaging in battle with each other. The battle ended with Tybalt impaling Mercutio’s breast with his sword, mortally wounding him which later killed him. This follows the previous example of the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues which always leads to bloodshed. Romeo challenged Tybalt to a duel where he avenged the death of Mercutio by murdering Tybalt. Mercutio’s relative, the Prince sentenced Romeo to banishment as his sentence for killing Tybalt. This furthermore strained Romeo and Juliet’s relationship.After hearing the news about his banishment, Romeo calls it “purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence banished is banish’d from the world, and world’s exile is death. Then ‘banishment’ is death misterm’d. Calling death ‘banishment’ thou cut’st my head off with a golden axe” (Shakespeare 3.3). Romeo regrets his actions as now he is no longer allowed to see Juliet. He calls this worst than death and would much rather have been executed than be without his love. Meanwhile in the Capulet’s household Juliet hears about Romeo’s actions and is heartbroken. She …show more content…
First Juliet must consent to marry Paris, and then the night before the wedding, she must drink a sleeping potion that will imitate death. With her death, the Capulet household will lay her to rest in the Capulet tomb, where then she will wake after 42 hours and be retrieved by Romeo who will elope with her to Mantua. However, the plan fails as a letter explaining the details of the plan was unsuccessfully delivered to Romeo in Mantua. Upon hearing the somber news, Romeo seeks out an apothecary for poison “whose sale is present death in Mantua, here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him” (Shakespeare 5.1). With Juliet gone, Romeo finds no reason to continue living in the world as seeks an apothecary to buy poison from. However, it is unaware to Romeo that Juliet is in a deep sleep and will wake sometime after the next 42 hours. He rides his horse from Mantua to Verona and approaches the Capulet’s tomb to see Juliet one last time before he supposedly joins her in the heavens. But, when he arrives, Paris is already at the tomb mourning over his lost of Juliet. Romeo and Paris exchange glances and draw their swords with Romeo ending up victorious. Romeo sets himself right next to Juliet and drinks the vial of poison perishing a few seconds afterward. Surprisingly, Juliet wakes up a few minutes afterwards unaware of Romeo’s corpse lying near her. But when she does spot Romeo, she once again is
Soon after the death of Tybalt, Paris - the man trying to marry Juliet - meets with Capulet to discuss marriage. Capulet allows Paris to marry Juliet. However, Juliet is already married to Romeo, so she asks the Friar for help. Friar Lawrence, doing the thing he thought was right, devised a plan to help Juliet get out of the tough situation. He comes up with a potion that will make appear dead, so that when she is in her family’s crypt, Romeo will retrieve her and they would live happily with Romeo, away from their feuding parents.
Additionally, after Romeo’s marriage with Juliet he gets in the middle of a fight. If Romeo did not engage in the brawl between Mercutio his best friend and Tybalt his opposing rival, they would still have a fair chance at survival. Mercutio engages in a fight with Tybalt on Romeo’s behalf because Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt, since Tybalt is now Romeo’s cousin-in-law. In addition, Romeo attempts to break up the progressive fight, but his actions are futile. Furthermore, Romeo getting among Mercutio and Tybalt does more harm than good because Mercutio dies. The only explanation of how Mercutio dies is that Tybalt is able to pierce Mercutio’s chest under Romeo’s arm. Romeo blocks Mercutio’s view, leaving him defenseless and feeble.
Juliet chooses to fake her, and one of Romeo’s men catch word of it and deliver the news to Romeo. As Romeo races back to Verona, Friar John was on his way to deliver the truth to Romeo but couldn’t make it to him in time. Romeo breaks into the Capulet tomb to see Juliet for himself. When he does see that Juliet is “dead” he does not choose to live any longer and decides to end his life by drinking a poison. When Juliet awakes and sees Romeo dead next to her she cries and tries to drink from the bottle the poison was in so she could die as well since there was nothing left in the bottle she decided to grab Romeo’s dagger and stab herself, and so she
If only Romeo accepted his duel against Tybalt but he didn’t so Romeo says “Tybalt, the reason that i have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting.”(3.1.63). Mercutio gets impatient of Romeo so he challenges Tybalt to a duel. When mercutio is dying Romeo kills Tybalt for revenge. Romeo was banished from Verona by the prince. An apothecary sells him poison to kill himself in Juliet’s tomb because he never received the letter from Friar Lawrence but he did hear about Juliet dead. When Romeo arrives at the tomb Paris is in the way of killing himself Romeo said to Paris”Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee boy.”(5.3.70) Romeo kills Paris. When Romeo sees Juliet dead he kisses her one last time and drinks the poison, before Romeo dies he says this” O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I
Juliet took a Potion that put her into a deep sleep, which in result made her family think she was dead. Also making Romeo think the same thing, he went to her grave site to take his own life, there he had an encounter with her fiancé, Paris, and they engaged in a fight and shortly after killing Paris Romeo took his own life. A short time after Juliet awoke from her deep sleep she discovered that her husband and fiancé were dead and took her own
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
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
After the Capulet family assumes that Juliet’s grief is caused by the death of Tybalt, Paris explains, “These times of woe afford not times to woo...Commend me to your daughter(3.4.8-10).” County Paris emphasizes the significance of being married to Juliet instantly, as he assumes it is the only way to cure her grief. He initiates the best course of action for Juliet as a result of his deep affection for her. Since Juliet is assumed to be “dead” by the Capulets, she is buried in a tomb as predicted in Friar Lawrence’s plan; Romeo arrives at the tomb to mourn after the funeral when Balthasar, his loyal messenger, bears the grave news. Paris’ dedication toward Juliet is further proven when he discerns Romeo at Juliet’s tomb and declares, “This is that banished haughty Montague that murdered my love’s cousin, with which grief it is supposèd the fair creature died...I will apprehend him (5.3.49-54).” The sight of Romeo galvanizes Paris into protecting Juliet’s tomb as he believes that Romeo will do some villainous shame to her and other dead bodies. He once again takes the initiative to fight for Juliet’s peace because he feels that he is obliged to as he is affectionate of her. County Paris, an affectionate and responsible character, epitomizes Shakespeare’s message of taking initiative for the betterment of a loved one as a result of profound
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare is a tragedy between two lovers from two opposing households, the Montagues and the Capulets, who have a tragic and deadly ending. Romeo gets exiled from Verona, Italy, because he killed a Capulet named Tybalt in a sword fight. Juliet and Romeo are devastated from the banishment order because they would no longer be with each other. The consequences of this sad news, drive the two young lovebirds to a fatal ending.Friar Laurence, Mercutio, and Juliet foreshadow the two endings of the two lover’s downfall.
They get married but since Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo has no choice but to kill him. Romeo gets banished from Verona and so he can no longer be with Juliet. Due to a few mishaps with the Friar, Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and goes to her tomb to drink poison and die with her but Juliet awakes just after Romeo drank the poison. When Juliet realizes what happened, she kills herself. Many characters contributed to the fall and death of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.
Tybalt wants to fight Romeo because he crashed the party where he met Juliet. Because Tybalt is known for his skilled sword fighting, Mercurio doesn’t believe Romeo will will in this fight so he fights for him. In the beginning is was just a little silly fight but when Romeo enters the scene things get interesting. Romeo decides to try and stop this fight because he thinks he can resolve it; with romeo getting in the middle of the fight with swords in the air, Tybalt’s sword happened to stab Mercutio. This resulted in Mercutio's death, and tempered romeo quite quickly. Romeo chases after Tybalt and fights him. With Romeo’s rage, the fight ends up with Tybalt dead. After the two deaths were revealed, Romeo was to blame for the killings and was banned from his home (Verona). Romeo was able to marry Juliet but would be separated from her forever. Before he must leave Juliet sneaks him into her room so they could sleep together to complete their marriage. After the night, romeo leaves at dawn. A professor named Friar Lawrence was the man who secretly married them, and was soon asked by Juliet to make a potion to make her fall asleep for a period of time so she appears dead. Once she is Buried outside the town she plans to leave home with Romeo. Romeo hears about this and thinks that she is
Romeo and Juliet were lovers from different world whose love was star crossed. Juliet last name was Capulet, while Romeo is a Montague. These families are in a feud that has existed since ancient times. They meet by chance at a party hosted by the Capulets. Through their “true” love of only about five days, they lose the lives of six people as of result of Romeo and Juliet.
O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die”(926). Juliet saw Romeo dead before her and thought the same thing as he. She would not want to live without him. Everything that had happened leading up to their death, lead right back onto a common denominator.
Tybalt promptly kills Mercutio, causing Romeo to act in the heat of the moment, pursue, and kill Tybalt; as a result, Romeo is banished from Verona. He later receives news that Juliet has died. Romeo immediately rushes to Juliet’s side and kills himself over her “dead” body. Little does he know Juliet is not actually dead: she was staging
To begin, Romeo hears from a servant, Balthasar that his lady Juliet is dead. Balthasar tells romeo "her body sleeps in capel's monument," (V,i,18). Balthasar told Romeo Juliet was dead, and Romeo had not received the letters from Friar John. In addition, Romeo begins to plan his suicide after he finds out his lady is dead. Romeo goes to an apothecary living in poverty to get poison to kill himself.