In “Romeo and Juliet” the character of Romeo is not able to see Juliet due to his actions. His punishment was that he couldn’t see Juliet anymore even though they were getting married. For Juliet, she came up with a “brilliant idea” so she was able to see Romeo once again, she wants to drink a sleeping potion that will look like she died. At the same time, she is thinking if faking her death is worth it: there is two things that is keeps her away from the Capulet tomb: Tybalt and the thought of death.
Shakespeare includes this excerpt from the play to show how love can be involved with death. Juliet is willing to do anything to see Romeo. To include to that, love is powerful and can make an object or person do anything. Juliet explains …show more content…
Death acts in this whole play. Metaphorically speaking, it plays a role in friendships, relationships, actual death, and other things that can end. Love is another thing that plays in this. Love can even end to death. If that potion wasn’t really a sleeping potion and was poison, that means she would die for love. In this world, anybody would die for love. It doesn’t have to have a boy and a girl in this situation. It can be friends, mothers and daughter (parents and their children.) Lady Capulet and Juliet are an example of this. There connection was tearing apart. It was dying. Juliet wouldn’t really open up to her mother. This didn’t only happen to them. There was other characters. Death is like an actual person. It destroys people's’ lives and gets into things.
Shakespeare uses imagery/allusion in Juliet’s speech about death to give a message. Juliet directly states
“Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
At some hours in the night spirits resort --?
Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,
That living mortals, hearing them, run
Shakespeare includes this excerpt from the play to show how love can be involved with death. Juliet is willing to do anything to see Romeo. To include to that, love is powerful and can make an object or person do anything. Juliet explains …show more content…
Death acts in this whole play. Metaphorically speaking, it plays a role in friendships, relationships, actual death, and other things that can end. Love is another thing that plays in this. Love can even end to death. If that potion wasn’t really a sleeping potion and was poison, that means she would die for love. In this world, anybody would die for love. It doesn’t have to have a boy and a girl in this situation. It can be friends, mothers and daughter (parents and their children.) Lady Capulet and Juliet are an example of this. There connection was tearing apart. It was dying. Juliet wouldn’t really open up to her mother. This didn’t only happen to them. There was other characters. Death is like an actual person. It destroys people's’ lives and gets into things.
Shakespeare uses imagery/allusion in Juliet’s speech about death to give a message. Juliet directly states
“Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
At some hours in the night spirits resort --?
Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,
That living mortals, hearing them, run