Apothecary

The star crossed lovers decided to end their lives for the same reasons, for love and solely for the thought of being with their other half forever. “ Here’s to my love! O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die”(Shakespeare, 473). Romeo finds Juliet in the tomb “dead” and decides on his own free will he must take his life as well. “He drew his sword and plunged it into his side” (Hamilton, 489). Pyramus makes…

Throughout the entire play Romeo cares about his loved ones. In the second act of the play Romeo confesses his love to Juliet, underneath her balcony. Romeo has just met Juliet and is already confessing his love and his loyalty to her. Romeo speaks of Juliet as the glorious sun that has arose to kill off the envious moon, “ It is the East, and Juliet is the sun./Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.”( 2.2 3-4) Romeo speaks of Juliet as if she is a god, rising above the gloomy moon with…

.How if, when I am laid in the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo Come to redeem me”(IV-iii-24), she would still take the potion and fall into a deathlike sleep. Romeo would later find her in the tomb and shouts, “Here’s to my love! O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die”(V-iii-119), and die because he believed she was dead. Friar Laurence goes to the tomb after Romeo dies and is there when Juliet wakes up, but instead of watching over her to make sure she doesn’t do…

Since the Montague and Capulet families are enmities, Juliet is devastated when she realizes her love for Romeo cannot endure. She expresses her grief to the nurse while saying, “My only love sprung from my only hate!...Than I must love a loathed enemy.” (Act I Scene V Line 138-141). Juliet apprehends that her parents would forbid her to marry Romeo because he is the son of their worst enemy. Hatred plays a part in this scene because since the Montague and Capulet families detest one another,…

Dramatic Irony- irony occurs in a fictional work when the audience / reader or a character knows something that another character does not. The pardoner’s prologue exemplifies dramatic irony within the Pardoner’s preaching regarding evil. ( Chaucer 18, 20, 21,) The pardoner addresses within his sermon the root of all evil is avarice, yet he willingly reveals to the reader his true intent within such declaration was a selfish greed.( Chaucer, 46) Due to his occupation, and previous assertions,…

Love is like a double edged sword. One side brings solace, while the other strikes you down. This idea is expressed in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The basic premise of the story is how two families, Montagues and Capulets, have had a feud between them. The next kin of these families, falls in love and must find a way to continue their love. They seek out the help of Friar Lawrence, who devises a complex plan that is doomed to fail. They agree to the plan, however despite the alternatives…

being alive. This recurring theme appears again near the end of the play. “A dream of poison, such soon-speeding gear/ As will disperse itself through all the veins,/ That the life-weary taker may fall dead,”(V, i, 64-69), Romeo is speaking to the apothecary because he is prepared to die after hearing about Juliet’s death. The story of a married couple in Italy, where the wife fell into a coma and her husband stayed loyal until he could not take her being without her anymore, he killed himself…

When physicians would try to heal their patients, they would wear a special cloak and a protective mask. Apothecaries would hand out drugs and medicine to try and slow the effects of the plague (Bubonic). In order to try to stop the spreading, all dogs and cats were ordered to be killed (Heydt). In some cases, they tried to control the rat population, but that…

tell not me of fear!” Juliet was the one who took the dagger, “No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there. Laying down her dagger”. Romeo was the one who killed himself, “The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here's to my love! Drinks O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. Dies”. Lastly, Juliet was the one who killed herself, “ Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! Snatching ROMEO's dagger This is thy sheath; Stabs herself there rust, and let me die.…

Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest novels ever written, one reason that it intrigues the audience is because characters made decisions based of passion. Benvolio decides to fight Tybalt when Sampson and Gregory started to mess with Abram.Benvolio tries to stop Sampson and Gregory from starting a fight with Abram because he loved his town. Until Tybalt says “What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.” (1.1 71-72) Benvolio's love for his town turns…