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Death In Romeo And Juliet Essay

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Death is a painful, distressing, and heart-rending part of life that everyone faces at some point. Throughout Shakespeare's writing of Romeo and Juliet, the complex idea of death is explored thoroughly. Shakespeare is very good at showing how death portrays the idea of having a new perspective on life and seeing the world differently. It also forces the reader to picture and live life without a certain person in your life. In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet it is noted that Romeo, Juliet and numerous other characters are able to face the fact that they have lost a loved one and how they are able to cope with it.
In the play, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo, one of the main characters, has to face the challenge of death when his wife Juliet “dies”. …show more content…

Julet similarly suffers and copes like Romeo. Juliet’s grief is accurately represented in the play when it says “What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after?”. Juliet is asking what is in Romeo's hand. She then realizes that it is poison and says that he has seen his end of time. She is surprised at how he drank all of it, not one drop left. Juliet's grief is represented in another way when the play …show more content…

“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.[Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies]”
Juliet wants to kiss Romeo to see if any poison was lingering on his lips that could kill her as well. Juliet tells the watchman that she will do something brief. She takes Romeo's dagger and stabs herself with it. This was the only way Juliet could cope with the pain of her husband's death. She wanted to be with him forever even if that meant she had to die in order for it to happen. While Romeo and Juliet deal with death similarly, other characters like Count Paris for example will deal with it

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