When Romeo first lays eyes on Juliet, his enemy’s daughter, he instantly falls in love. Thirteen year old Juliet quickly learns to love Romeo, however, she is unsure what to do when her parents force her to marry another man named Paris. Demented, Juliet asks religious man Friar Laurence for advice. After hearing about her situation, Friar Lawrence hands her a concoction which will cause her to appear dead for forty hours. This scenes marks the point when the theme of death begins to become apparent to the storyline because Juliet does not see another way she out of her situation unless she utilizes the potion. In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, the prominent cause of death in the story includes revenge and suicide due to the rivalry
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If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?” The author’s perspective of getting revenge is overt in the play Romeo and Juliet. When Mercutio and Tybalt begin to fight, Romeo attempts to intervene. But, while Romeo is trying to calm them down, Tybalt’s temper gets the best of him and he stabs Mercutio through an opening in Romeo’s arms. Furious, Romeo grabs a sword and stabs Tybalt to avenge his friend’s injury. After Romeo kills Tybalt, he immediately regrets his actions when he discovers he has been banished from the city of Verona. “There is no world without Verona walls, But Purgatory, torture, Hell itself” says Romeo. Romeo is in despair about being exiled from Verona because this means he may never see Juliet again. When Juliet hears of Romeo’s expulsion from the city, she cries out “Wash they his wounds with tears? Mine shall be spent When theirs are dry, for Romeo’s banishment.” (Act 3, Scene 2, Page 5) She too realizes her and Romeo will never be able to be together or announce their secret marriage to their feuding …show more content…
The concoction makes Juliet appear to be dead, however, she is actually in a very deep sleep. When the Capulets’ nurse finds Juliet inanimate in her room, the family immediately holds a funeral service for Juliet and places her body in the tomb. Unfortunately, one of Romeo’s servants, Balthasar, saw Juliet’s limp body and informed Romeo that she has died. When Romeo heard the news of Juliet’s passing, he realizes his life is pointless without her. “Come bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide, Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing, rocks thy seasick weary bank. Here’s to my love!” says Romeo before he quickly drinks the poison he had purchased from the apothecary and dies minutes later. Romeo drinks the poison inside the tomb so he can spend the rest of eternity next to his Juliet. Just moments later, Juliet awakes from her slumber and finds her husband dead on the floor of the tomb. Heartbroken, Juliet attempts to drink the poison Romeo had drunk. Juliet is unable to find any poison, so she takes a dagger and stabs herself in the chest. Juliet chooses to stab herself so her and Romeo could be united in the
If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?” The author’s perspective of getting revenge is overt in the play Romeo and Juliet. When Mercutio and Tybalt begin to fight, Romeo attempts to intervene. But, while Romeo is trying to calm them down, Tybalt’s temper gets the best of him and he stabs Mercutio through an opening in Romeo’s arms. Furious, Romeo grabs a sword and stabs Tybalt to avenge his friend’s injury. After Romeo kills Tybalt, he immediately regrets his actions when he discovers he has been banished from the city of Verona. “There is no world without Verona walls, But Purgatory, torture, Hell itself” says Romeo. Romeo is in despair about being exiled from Verona because this means he may never see Juliet again. When Juliet hears of Romeo’s expulsion from the city, she cries out “Wash they his wounds with tears? Mine shall be spent When theirs are dry, for Romeo’s banishment.” (Act 3, Scene 2, Page 5) She too realizes her and Romeo will never be able to be together or announce their secret marriage to their feuding …show more content…
The concoction makes Juliet appear to be dead, however, she is actually in a very deep sleep. When the Capulets’ nurse finds Juliet inanimate in her room, the family immediately holds a funeral service for Juliet and places her body in the tomb. Unfortunately, one of Romeo’s servants, Balthasar, saw Juliet’s limp body and informed Romeo that she has died. When Romeo heard the news of Juliet’s passing, he realizes his life is pointless without her. “Come bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide, Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing, rocks thy seasick weary bank. Here’s to my love!” says Romeo before he quickly drinks the poison he had purchased from the apothecary and dies minutes later. Romeo drinks the poison inside the tomb so he can spend the rest of eternity next to his Juliet. Just moments later, Juliet awakes from her slumber and finds her husband dead on the floor of the tomb. Heartbroken, Juliet attempts to drink the poison Romeo had drunk. Juliet is unable to find any poison, so she takes a dagger and stabs herself in the chest. Juliet chooses to stab herself so her and Romeo could be united in the