Miles Seder E9H-5 1/12/23 Friar Lawrence’s dramatic irony in Romeo and Juliet Many people become hooked onto entertainment films because they want to figure out the outcome of the movie or show they’re watching. However, writers in literature use a powerful technique to hook viewers called dramatic irony, where the audience is aware of something that the characters are not. It builds tension and adds depth to the story, as well as creating a sense of anticipation for the audience. In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, dramatic irony is used from the prologue, where the audience is told that Romeo and Juliet kill themselves in the end.
He went to Juliet's casket, drank the poison and killed himself. After some time, Juliet awoke from her slumber, saw Romeo dead on her chest and killed herself. Friar Laurence tried to help the couple but the delay to deliver the news caused a tragic death between the
The last plan he had was to give Juliet a non-lethal drug that will make her seem dead for the next forty-two hours, have her buried in the family crypt, and found by Romeo. Romeo, who at the time had been banished from the city and sent to a near-by city, was waiting for news that he had been pardoned, which never happens. Instead, he gets news that Juliet has died, which of course isn’t true, but he goes ballistic over it. He buys poison, and heads back to the city to see if it’s true for himself, goes into the Capulet crypt, sees Juliet’s “dead” body which has been “dead” for almost two days, which still has color in it, and kills himself. Five seconds later, Friar Lawrence shows up because the person who was supposed to send the message to Romeo that Juliet hadn’t actually died got held up, so Romeo never got the message.
In the morning, the nurse discovers her and pronounces her dead. Of all the things the Friar has done so far, giving Juliet the poison is the worst of his actions. As the Friar’s plan goes, Romeo did not receive the letter from the servant describing the situation of how Juliet is not dead, only sleeping. Romeo then kills himself when he sees his ‘dead’ wife, and when Juliet rises only to see her dead husband, she ends her life with a
In the morning after Juliet took the potion, the Nurse found her in her bed “dead”. After everyone found out about her “death”, they had her funeral on her wedding day, because everyone else was there at the wedding. After the funeral, Romeo met an apothecary. Romeo told him he wanted to buy
Instead Romeo’s servant, Balthasar delivered the news of Juliet’s death to him first. Romeo was so saddened by the news that he went to the Apothecary to buy poison. Romeo went back to Verona and went to Capulet tomb where he saw Juliet’s lifeless body. “And thus with a kiss I die”(5.3.120) these were Romeo’s dying words as he drank the poison lying next to Juliet.
Seeing his wife is dead, Romeo then proceeds to kill himself with a poison that he happened to have with him at the time (likely one that he also had received from Friar Lawrence). Once this happens, Juliet then awakens from her unconsciousness and sees Romeo dead beside her. In shock that her husband has committed suicide using a vial of poison, Juliet attempts to follow suit and kisses Romeo’s lips, hoping to be exposed to the poison. “Thy lips are warm!” (Act 5, Scene 3)
Not knowing this, when news gets out that Juliet has died, Romeo believes it. He travels back to Verona and, with a poison he bought from an apothecary on the way, kills himself. Romeo no longer wished to live if he could not do so with Juliet. When Juliet wakes to find a dead Romeo, she felt the same way and kills herself too. Because Capulet moved up the wedding date, Romeo and Juliet died, no matter if the Apothecary sold Romeo the poison or
At this moment in the play, Romeo gets word that Juliet had passed. He enters Juliet's tomb and encounters Paris. They fight, and Romeo murders Paris. Romeo then follows Juliet and commits suicide by drinking a potion. Friar Laurence rushes to the tomb, only to discover that he is too late.
After Romeo enters the tomb and discovers Juliet's lifeless body, he delivers a sorrowful speech, kisses her, and then drinks the poison. After he dies, Friar Lawrence sees Romeo’s corpse lying beside awakened Juliet. He then hears the guards and urges Julet
After he heard this he bought some poison from a poor pharmacist and killed himself in Juliet’s grave tomb. When Juliet woke up and found Romeo dead, she took his dagger and killed herself. This happened in act 1-2.
The letter was telling Romeo to come to the Capulets vault when Juliet awakes from her slumber so that they could get married. But Friar John was delayed, and did not get the message to Romeo. So Romeo broke into the vault and saw Juliet “dead” and drank the poison that he had on him. Moments later Juliet awakes from her sleep and sees Romeo dead next to her along with the poison bottle. Juliet drank the last of the poison from his lips and stabbed herself with his rusty dagger.
Romeo in his new home, receives news from his close friend that Juliet is dead, and was carried into the Capulet family tomb. Romeo instantly buys a poison potion from a local drug dealer, and rides on his horse to the Capulet household. He breaks his way into the tomb where he finds Paris, the man who was also supposed to marry Juliet. They engage in a battle, and Paris falls to the floor, dead. After this, Romeo finds Juliet and decides it is time to end his life to be with Juliet in heaven.
Romeo will then meet her in the tomb, where the rest of the lifeless Capulets lie. When she wakes, they will run off to Mantua together, leaving both families without the knowledge of their departure (Shakespeare 993). Friar created an entire arrangement in order to keep Romeo and Juliet together. If he had not given her the potion, to fake her death, Juliet would have been forced to marry Paris, by her father. They would have been separated and without the plan, Romeo would have never received the false news of Juliet's death, leading not only him but Juliet to take her own life.
Heartbroken, he found Juliet’s body, still affected by the potion on her tomb. He drank a poisonous potion so he could die beside her. When Juliet did eventually awake, she was greeted with the sight of her dead lover and stabbed herself
