Theme Of Poison In Romeo And Juliet

In the play, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ written by Shakespeare, is one of the most famous and talked about love stories to this day. It revolves around the forbidden love of Romeo and Juliet. After crashing a party with his cousins to cause trouble at the Capulet's feast, Romeo spots a beautiful woman across the ballroom, who turns out to be Juliet and after that night they believe they had a case of ‘love at first sight’. A symbol that really stood out to me was the symbolism around poison and the love that Juliet and Romeo display throughout the play.

A symbol that I found interesting was the symbolism surrounding the poison. In one of the first scenes that included Friar Lawrence, a man that both Juliet and Romeo trusted deeply, talks about how

Friar Lawrence’s words are proven correct as the story plays out. Friar Lawrence only gave Juliet the poison to put her to sleep, it wasn’t actually a poison to kill, yet in the end, Friar Lawrence lost control of his concoction and things took a fatal turn, resulting in Romeo’s death, and then the substantial death of Juliet. This example shows that Friar caused death without intending to and I feel like it happens a lot in today’s society. Just last year I was about to cause somebody's ‘death’. One of my friends was going through a tough time, but she never told anybody. Soon some of my other friends, even my music teacher saw that she had started to change. Now we were all in a singing group and we were rehearsing for a competition, the next year, and things were going great, but as time went on, she would slowly stop turning up to rehearsals yet, she would always say she still wants to do the competition when we would ask her. The girls and I we were starting to get fed up. We all discussed at one of the rehearsals if we should just drop her from the group, but I had this nagging voice in the back of my head saying “Chelsea don’t do it”. A couple weeks later, the girl and I

It shows a passion within the relationship of Romeo and Juliet. Yet, I always seem to think that these two had run into the relationship a little too fast. In the play, Romeo is around the age of 15-16 and Juliet is around 13-14 years old. Now back when the story was set, which was around the late 1500’s, it was normal for couples at this age to marry as lifespan back then was very short. Romeo and Juliet were already of age to get married off, Juliet was even set to meet her arranged husband, Paris, at the feast. Romeo and Juliet are offsprings of Lords meaning, there was a large amount of pressure to get them married as the family needs to have a monarch in line for the throne when the lords finally step down. Living in a society where there are laws around getting married at that age, I sit and look at this like ‘your only kids, what are you doing’, I have a whole life ahead of me I have to finish high school, go to university, get my PhD and only then will I start to think about building a family. Times have changed dramatically, and we are able to live longer because of developed technology, which they didn’t have back then. But, like I said before, Romeo and Juliet were a bit too enthusiastic with the thought of being in love. They wanted to get married the next day! I think age played a big role in this as they are only teens. I know that back then, teens mature faster than teens in my generation as all they