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Theme Of Poison In Romeo And Juliet

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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 …show more content…

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 …show more content…

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

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Friar Lawrence guilty of wrongful death? Friar Lawrence is not guilty of wrongful death. He committed no serious crimes, and was not responsible for the tragedies committed by Romeo and Juliet. For it was Romeo who drank the poison, and it was Juliet who forced the dagger through her abdomen. Friar Lawrence did not know Juliet was going to turn the knife on herself after realising Romeo was dead.

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Friar Lawrence is to blame for Romeo and Juliet's death because he does not think things through, he does not come up with a good plan. He came up with all these three ideas, the potion, the message, and the marriage of them, and neither of them worked out correctly, or as he thought. Due to him not thinking things through enough, it resulted in both of them killing themselves. Friar Lawrence's idea of giving Juliet a potion to make her appear dead turned out to be a mistake as it was overly complicated and risky. Even though he wanted to help Juliet escape marrying Paris and be with Romeo, the plan relied too much on everything going perfectly.

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Friar Lawrence should be considered as partially responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because of his actions throughout the play. Even though he might have been trying to help Romeo and Juliet, what he did throughout the play is questionable as helping Romeo and Juliet. In Act 4 Shakespeare writes “Take thou this vial, being then in bed,And this distilling liquor drink thou off; When presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse Shall keep his native progress, but surcease. No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest'' ( lV. i. 95-100). This establishes that Friar Lawrence gave Juliet a “ sleeping potion” to have a sleep for a certain amount of time.

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Anyway those are just a few of many examples of symbols in romeo and juliet. Out of all these symbols I think the biggest symbol is poison. Poison is a big symbol in this play and here is why. Poison is symbolized in a lot of ways in this play death is the main way it is symbolized two more ways are selfishness and love. In Romeo and Juliet poison is used as a symbol multiple times.

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