Examples Of Potions In Romeo And Juliet

The potions in Romeo and Juliet are a huge part of how Romeo and Juliet became the story that they are currently. If they never drink that potion, they never reunite their families. The main reason for writing this was not to show what the options are, but what they represent. Shakespeare from what I have read was making the stories and potions seem to be fairly similar to the story of Adam and Eve. The Fruit of Adam and Eve was like the potions that Romeo and Juliet took. because Romeo is persuaded to take the potion, like Adam was persuaded to take the Fruit, and Friar Laurence persuades Juliet to take the potion, as the Devil persuades Eve. The first point of the topic is that you see the fruit was given as something you should not partake of and that it was something that could kill you to sin. Similar to the

Now I’m going to force open your rotten jaws and make you eat another body. Romeo begins to open the tomb with his tools” (Shakespeare 5.3.51-55) The effect of both the fruit and potion is that you become tempted or persuaded by love or temptation to take the object that will kill you. The second point is more of a tag along to the first point. As said in the first point, Juliet will not yet be dead until Romeo takes his potion. Similar to Adam and Eve, Eve when she took the Fruit was not yet dead in sin until Adam took the Fruit. So Juliet being “dead” persuaded Romeo to kill himself because he loved her to the point he couldn’t live without her. As said in the quote “You horrible mouth of death! You’ve eaten up the dearest creature on Earth.” (Shakespeare 5.3.51-53) Romeo says that she was the dearest creature on earth; he was so deeply in love that he wants to spend his life with her even if it's through death, which gives him persuasion to drink the poison. Then after she awakes and sees Romeo took all the poison for himself and saved none for her, she finishes the deal and kills herself by stabbing