Examples Of Loyalty In Romeo And Juliet

People should still read Romeo and Juliet because it teaches that loyalty can sometimes lead people to harm others, people should think before acting, and parents and children need to communicate to avoid conflicts. The first reason why people should still Romeo and Juliet is that it teaches that loyalty can sometimes lead people to harm others. One example of loyalty that can sometimes lead people to harm others is when Juliet promises Romeo to leave her family if he promises her to be her love. ” Romeo! Romeo! Why are you Romeo? Reject your father and refuse his name. Or if you will not, just swear to be my love, and I will no longer be a Capulet”(Act 2 Scene 2 Lines 35-38). According to the quote, Juliet is so loyal to Romeo that she would

If Juliet left her family and her family found out why she left them, she would be harming her family for leaving them to be with a Montague. Another example of loyalty sometimes leading someone to harm others is when Juliet saw Romeo dead holding a bottle of poison, and she wanted to drink it to die and join him. “Go, go away. I’ll stay. What's this? A bottle, clutched in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, has brought him to his untimely end. Oh, the rascal drank it all and didn’t leave one good drop to help me follow him”( Act 5 Scene 3 Line 164-168). According to the quote Juliet is so loyal to Romeo that when she saw Romeo dead beside her she looked inside the poison bottle to see if there was enough to kill herself. Juliet is so loyal to Romeo that she would kill herself to be with him. If Juliet drank the poison she would be harming the people that knew she was alive and the people that could have saved her like Friar Lawrence. Since Juliet would leave her family and kill herself for Romeo because she is loyal to him, Romeo and Juliet shows that being loyal to someone can sometimes lead people to harm

One example of people needing to think before acting was when Romeo wanted to kill himself because he was getting exiled and he didn’t realize he was lucky that he was only banished from Verona. “Your Juliet is alive! it was for her sake that you wanted to be dead just now. You are fortunate. Tybalt wanted to kill you, but you killed him. You are fortunate. The law threatened your death became your friend and gave you exile. You are fortunate." (Act 3, Scene 3, Line 139-144). According to the quote, Romeo just wanted to kill himself after he found out he was getting exiled and Friar Lawerence was telling him he is lucky he didn’t get death as a punishment. Romeo was not thinking about how lucky he was that he was only getting exiled and killed because he was only thinking about how he wouldn’t be able to go back to Verona and see Juliet. If he would have thought about getting exiled he would have realized he was fortunate and he would not have tried and killed himself. Another example of people needing to think before they act is when Romeo saw Juliet dead and just wanted to kill himself to join her right away. “My wife! Death, that has sucked the honey from your breath, has no power yet over your beauty. You are not conquered. Beauty's flag is still crimson in your lips and cheeks, and death's pale flag has not advanced there"(Act 5, Scene 3, Lines