Romeo And Juliet Sacrifice Essay

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In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare uses Romeo and Juliet to convey the theme about How love and sacrifice sometimes isn’t enough. In ways that shakespeare shows this to us is by showing how Juliet decides to marry Romeo in secret. She sacrificed her family for him. And in the end they both end up dead and not with each other.
In Romeo and Juliet one way that the author shows that Juliet is sacrificing is that she decides to marry Romeo in secret behind her parents back. When planning their marriage Romeo tells Juliet to meet him “At the hour at nine”(II. ii.169). This shows how she is sacrificing and willing to hide her love that she has for Romeo from her parents. Her parents do not know that she is getting married only Friar and
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She gets the sleeping potion from Friar And he tells her the plan about how everything must be done. He explains to her how she must take the drug the night before that way her parents well think she’s dead and she’ll get to be with Romeo like she wants. Juliet is “Dead” (IV.v..8-22) The nurse then comes into the room and hollers for her parents and says…”Juliet she’s dead”!!!. Friar quickly says that they must take her buy her cousin Tybalt who was killed by her beloved Romeo. Some evidence that shakespeare uses to show that Juliet isn’t dead is that there’s a letter that Romeo is waiting for that well tell him where to meet Juliet. But since everything has been changed a day earlier so everything is now messed up. In the quote that i i’m using it shows that Juliet wants to be with Romeo behind her parents back that’s why she took the potion that Friar give her. "Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake."(V.ii.25). This right here shows how she is sacrificing everything that she has just be with Romeo when she could just forget about him and be with Paris. She still chooses to be with Romeo no matter if the consequences mean

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