I chose to represent my theme, tragedy born from love, in the way of the infamous poison vile that brought Romeo and Juliet to their deaths. The poison inside the vile is represented by Romeo and Juliet’s love which acted as a type of poison. It lurked through their bodies taking over their thoughts and actions ultimately forcing them to act in a crisis mode mindset. They had been brainwashed into thinking their love was infinite and would never fray. This made Romeo and Juliet feel like they needed to engross themselves into their passionate love too quickly which lead to them to endure severe depression when they weren’t together. As Friar Lawrence would say, they had consumed too much of a good thing and it was starting to turn sour. Romeo
