Where are you going? Romeo, your foolishness will kill you and Juliet. It is not a rational idea to rush back to Verona this instance. I am your ghost from only a few hours into the future. You are not thinking straight Romeo; however, I know how to fix this. I know exactly how to avoid this situation unless you would rather watch your poor Juliet kill herself over your death. Romeo, as a young adolescence, your brain is not fully developed, which may lead to regretful decisions. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, teens have a “tendency to act on impulse -without regard for risk.” Therefore, you may not see how irrational this idea is; although, you will when it is too late. Also, Friar Lawrence has devised a plan that reunites you and your Juliet. His plan is to fake Juliet’s death, steal her away in the night, and hide the two of you from your families so that you may live happily ever after. When you die in a matter of hours, Friar explains to both houses how the plan went wrong starting with how he gave Juliet a sleeping potion and he claims he, “intended for it wrought on her the form of death.” He continues to say, “Meantime I writ to Romeo that he should hither come as this dire night to help to take her from her borrowed grave.” Finally he pleas that, “Friar John was stayed by accident, and yesternight returned my letter back.” In my ghostly form, I witnessed him explain the unfolding of these events. Take it from me that making this impulsive decision is unwise and will only ruin Friar’s plan. In addition, poor Juliet is unfortunate enough to awaken to your …show more content…
Your brain is young and it makes impulsive choices. Furthermore, I have lived through these disastrous events, and all of it could have been avoided by staying in Mantua. Take a step back and think to yourself if you really want to end up in my position as a regretful, heartbroken, and foolish
When Juliet goes to the friar and threatens to kill herself if he doesn’t help her get out of marrying Paris he agrees to help her. He gives her a potion to temporarily stop her breathing so she appears dead. The friar says, “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.” (Act IV.i 95-99) “In the meantime, against thou shalt awake,/Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,” (Act IV.i 115-116) He is saying that Juliet doesn’t have to worry about Romeo freaking out about her death because he will tell Romeo about her fake death and they will be there to dig her up once she wakes up from her sleeping potion. Juliet is 100% on board with this plan because she really does not want to marry Paris. She is even willing to make her family think she is dead to be with
Juliet is to drink a potion to make her appear dead, and later wake to be free of the shame of marrying Paris. Here, Friar Lawrence is assuring Juliet that he will send a letter to Romeo, explaining their plan. Romeo doesn’t receive that letter, and he does not know what is to happen. Free will comes with great consequences. Friar Lawrence and Juliet inflicted their own wounds by not telling Romeo of their plan. If they had taken the time to make sure that Romeo got the information, their plan might have succeeded, and Romeo and Juliet would be free to marry each other. A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our intents. (V, iii, 154-155)
Juliet, desperate to avoid wedding Paris, visits him, with a dagger in hand. In order to avoid her death in that moment, Friar Laurence promises to give her a potion that will allow her to appear dead long enough so that Romeo may be able to return from Mantua. Thus, the two will be able to escape Verona together. He explains “And this distilling liquor drink thou off/When presently through all thy veins shall run/A cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse/No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest” (4.1.94-96). Friar Laurence describes his plan, saying that the potion Juliet will drink will make her appear deceased. It will give Romeo time to get to the Capulet tomb, and they will be able to live together for the rest of their lives. Although he explains his plan somewhat thoroughly, Friar Laurence goes on to say he will deliver a letter to Romeo, that of which is never delivered by Friar John. Romeo hears news of Juliet's so called passing by his companion, Balthasar. He tells Romeo “Her body sleeps in Capels’ monument/And her immortal part with angels lives/I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault/And presently took post to tell it to you” (5.1.18-21) Due to how the citizens of Verona believe that Juliet has really passed away, Balthasar truly believes that she is deceased. He explains that he has seen her laid to rest in the
He also tells Juliet that "Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, and hither shall hem come; and he and I shall watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee to Mantua" (Act 4, Scene 1.) Unforeseen to neither the Friar nor Juliet that an error such as the one of Friar John’s would prove to be deadly. Poor Romeo was not able to receive the letter. Friar Lawrence plays a significant role in the plan for Juliet to "sleep."Friar Lawrence plays an important rule in the actual deaths of Romeo, Juliet, And Paris. Friar Lawrence is unable to reach Romeo with the news of Juliet’s "death." Romeo, thinking Juliet is dead rushes to Verona, but not before buying some fast poison.
However, Juliet wakes up at the moment when Romeo falls dead on her lap and she exclaims, “Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end” (5.3.167), signifying the untimely death of Romeo that occurred due to his unnecessary haste. The suicides of Romeo and Juliet reflect their hasty and impulsive decisions as well as the dishonesty of Friar Lawrence and the Nurse. Romeo’s haste in drinking the venomous poison, Friar’s cowardice in handling the consequences as well as the Nurse’s choice of standing against the relationship of Romeo and Juliet contribute equally to their fatal end. Therefore, dishonesty and haste can result in undesirable circumstances to any individual.
News about Romeo’s banishment were delivered and Juliet suffered terribly. Her father, Capulet, was distraught by her grief, although he believed it was over Tybalt. Capulet arranged a marriage to cheer her up, but Juliet dissatisfied and Capulet responded, “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!” (3.5.222). Because of Romeo’s choices, Juliet’s relationship with her father was ruined. Romeo’s self-centeredness barely damaged his life, while others paid. When Romeo got himself banished, his mother killed herself out of misery. Because Juliet was taken, she could not marry Paris. Romeo’s banishment wrecked any chance for them to be together so Friar devised a plan. By drinking a vial that would make her seem dead, it would allow them to be together undisturbed. The plan ended up being complex and everything went awry. To explain the impact of Romeo’s decisions, C.S. Lewis said, “Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.” Several deaths could have been prevented if Romeo had this advice. Furthering Friar’s plan, a letter was supposed to be sent to Romeo explaining the plan, but something stopped the delivery and Romeo was left clueless. The plan was working until Romeo had heard that Juliet was dead. Paris saw and attacked Romeo, trying to stop him, but he protected himself and ended Paris’s life. Romeo looked inside her tomb and found Juliet dead. Now with Juliet gone, he thought that he would never find love again so he killed himself with poison. Juliet then woke up to find Romeo dead. She took a dagger and stabbed herself. The other character’s choices were guided by Romeo’s decision to pursue his relationship with
When Romeo and Juliet realize they can’t be together, and Juliet is expected to marry Paris, she needs an escape plan. Juliet pays a visit to the Friar, who creates a plan for Juliet to fake her death with a sleeping potion. When Juliet asks the Friar to help her break free from her wedding with Paris, he replies that: If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou has the strength of will to slay thyself; Then it is likely thou wilt undertake A thing like death to elude away this shame, That cop'st with death himself to scrape from it; And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy. IV i 71-76. Therefore, for the second time, the Friar acts unwisely and agrees to give Juliet this deadly potion.
Romeo is the kind of guy who doesn’t take a lot of time to think about things. He loves to jump to action quickly. This is a bad character trait to have as it can easily lead to many negative things. In fact, this is one of the character flaws that lead to Romeos downfall. After being misinformed about Juliet’s “death”, he plans to kill himself right away. He takes no time to think of another solution. “Come, Cardial and not poison, go with me / To Juliet’s grave; for there must I use thee” (5-1-82). Romeo buys a deadly poison with the idea to go to Juliet’s grave to kill himself. He is in distress and he obviously does not know the right thing to do. As if there’s no other way, Romeo travels to Juliet’s grave. He then proceeds to do what he wishes to do, to kill himself. After he kills himself, Juliet wakes up to see Romeo’s corpse. She kills herself shortly after seeing Romeo dead. Romeo could be living a life alive with Juliet if he didn’t conclude things so quickly. Consequently, Romeo has to endure the “death” of Juliet and the actual death of
After making the plan to fake her death with Friar Laurence, Juliet tells her father, “Pardon, I beseech you! / Henceforward I am ever rul’d by you” (4.2.22-23). Here, Juliet is lying to her father by telling him she will marry Paris when she really plans to fake her death. This is important because it reveals that Juliet’s eagerness to be with Romeo causes her to lie to her parents, putting the person she just met above the parents that raised her and love her very much. Not caring about how her actions will affect them may also cause conflicts later on in the play. Romeo is also deceptive to his role model, Friar Laurence. After learning that Juliet has “died”, Romeo tells Balthasar, “Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars! / Thou knowest my lodging. Get me ink and paper / And hire posthorses. I will hence to-night” (5.1.24-26). Here, Romeo is being deceptive of Friar Laurence by not staying at Mantua like Friar Laurence told him to. This is important since Romeo is still banished, so going back to Verona may cause even more conflicts later in the
Juliet sees Romeo, and eminently falls in love. One of her first bad decisions was falling in love with someone who her family ie enemies with, marrying him and keeping it a secret. Lord Capulet introduces Paris and Juliet, and wants them to get married not knowing that Juliet already has a husband. “Sir paris, I will make a desperate tender of my child’s love. I think she will be ruled in all respect by me; nay more, I doubt it not (Shakespeare 3.4.15). Even though she barely pays attention to him, Paris is convinced that Juliet loves him. Juliet was supposed to marry Pairs that Thursday, but did not want to. Juliet complains to Friar on how she doesn’t want to marry Paris. Friar then gave her a sleeping potion to take, and he would notify Romeo that she was taking it so he wouldn’t think she had died. “What if it be a potion which the friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead,lest in marriage he should be dishonored because he married me before to Romeo (Shakespeare 4.3.25). After she took the potion, she felt nothing. Romeo never received the message, so he thought she had passed. He then drank poison next to Juliet as she was waking but unfortunately never saw her hand move. Her hand shaking, she then realized that Romeo killed himself right before her
Once Juliet has found out that she was to be married to Paris the next day for sure she asked Friar Laurence to help her get out of her situation. Friar Laurence has a suggestion that she should take a potion that will leave her in a deep sleep for about 48 hours and will trick her family into thinking she was dead. She will then not have to get married to Paris and go live with Romeo instead once she had woken up. After Friar Laurence Explained the plan to her she hastily says, “Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!” (IV.i.124). Juliet is desperately asking for the potion without fully understanding the risks involved with taking it. This clearly shows that Juliet chose to agree with the plan. The problem with her choosing to go along with Friar Laurence’s plan was that there were too many risks she was taking. Some of those risks actually turned out to occur which was Romeo not receiving the message about Juliet’s plans. Romeo then mistakenly found out that Juliet was dead without being informed about her plan. Romeo then makes a rash decision to commit suicide while with Juliet still alive. In turn, Juliet then wakes up from her deep sleep only to find out about Romeo’s death and commits suicide along with him. Juliet’s choice of going along with Friar Laurence’s plans was not fully thought out but it was the choice that she made that led to both Romeo and Juliet’s
Do you have a point to your life? Or is it to live just to die. In the final scene of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet chooses to kill herself because of the death of Romeo; but what if there was a way to stop this? Imagine going back in time and sitting with juliet before she killed herself. What would you say?
Romeo believes that he needs to kill himself to be with his true love: "I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh...Here’s to my love! [Drinks] O, true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss, I die" (page ). Romeo needs to be with Juliet because of his deep love for her, his desire to be with her leads him to kill himself. Romeo’s decision to end his life has a disastrous impact on his family and Juliet's, this destruction directly leads to two more deaths. After Romeo has ended his life Juliet awakens and sees Romeo’s dead body. This causes the young teenager to take on a course of action similar to her love's believing that it is the only way to be with him, " O happy dagger![Snatching ROMEO’s dagger]This is thy sheath; [Stabs herself] there rust, and let me die. [Falls on ROMEO’s body, and dies]" Juliet is eager to end her life and considers it to be the best and only option to maintain her love. Although she considers death the best option it leads to a disastrous impact on her family (once again) and Friar Lawrence the one who helps her to stage her fake
Juliet says, “...Romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee” (4.3.58). This shows that Juliet does not know if Romeo found out the truth that truth being that even though she is dead to the world she is actually still alive, and without knowing if Romeo knew or not she drinks the potion. Romeo says, “...Here, here will I remain with worms that are thy chambermaids./O here will I set up my everlasting rest and shake that yoke of inauspicious stars from the world-wearied flesh…” (5.3.108-112). Romeo enters the tomb to see Juliet dead or at least it looks as if she is so he decides to take his own life but in reality he could have done so many other things or he could have at least waited a few more minutes until Juliet had awaken seeing that he kills himself moments before she wakes up. Juliet states, “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger./This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die”(5.3.169-170). This shows that Juliet chose to drink the potion and in turn she wakes up to find Romeo dead so in turn her solution is to take her own life rather than seeing how things play out. Shakespearean critic Edward Dowden states, “The moment that Romeo receives the false tidings of Juliet's death, is the moment of his assuming full manhood. Now, for the first time, he is completely delivered from the life of dream, completely adult, and able to act with an initiative in his own will, and with manly determination” (Dowden 57). This shows that Romeo is now a man and this means that he is now able to make responsible choices and act as his own person, that means that in him taking his life he chose to do so and not because he was a kid and did not know better because as shown he is now a man and can make his own decisions.
Friar wants to make his life a peaceful one, in which he later on does: “Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone:/ Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber./ Take thou this vial, being then in bed,/ And this distilled liqour drink thou off;/ When presently through all thy veins shall run/ A cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse” (IV. i.ln 101-106). Juliet believes that his plans are only to help herself and Romeo. The Friar tries to make them believe that it would be for them and their well-being, but in the reality of it all it was for the well-being of his own. Due to Romeo and Juliet’s desperation for love they became rash in their actions; an opportune time to use someone to achieve your goal. Friar Laurence found this quite useful, the two lovers listened to every word Friar