Romeo and Juliet question?

Question

I just asked a question about how Romeo and Juliet die. Why does Juliet take something that only puts her to sleep for awhile?

Answer 1

Juliet takes the potion as part of a plan made with Friar Lawrence that will get her out of her arranged marriage to Paris and allow her to run away to Mantua with Romeo (where they can be together). Being a tragedy, it obviously doesn't work out, as Balthasar (Romeo's servant) hears of Juliet's "death" (and not knowing that she's not actually dead) rides to Mantua to give Romeo the news. Romeo returns directly to Verona, and actually poisons himself beside what he believes to be Juliet's dead body just before she awakes. Finding him dead, she then takes is dagger and kills herself.

Answer 2

Juliet's father insists that she must be married within two days to Paris. She loves Romeo, who belongs to her father's most hated enemy's family. So, to avoid the arranged marriage and to enable her to run off with Romeo, Juliet takes a potion which gives her the appearance of death. But, messages get delayed and Romeo believes her really dead and so kills himself. Juliet when she wakes up sadly joins him.

Answer 3

Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare

http://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/romeo-and-juliet/

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Essentially, Juliet cuts herself loose from her prior social moorings—her Nurse, her parents, and her social position in Verona—in order to try to reunite with Romeo. When she wakes in the tomb to find Romeo dead, she does not kill herself out of feminine weakness, but rather out of an intensity of love, just as Romeo did. Juliet’s suicide actually requires more nerve than Romeo’s: while he swallows poison, she stabs herself through the heart with a dagger.

http://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/RomJul/index.htm


http://litsum.com/romeo-and-juliet/

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http://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=363

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http://www.clicknotes.com/romeo/index.html

An analysis of the play by Shakespeare

http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/romeoandjuliet001.html

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Characters

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/romeojl11.asp

Good luck.

Kevin, Liverpool, England.

Answer 4

Common treatment for "The Vapors".

Answer 5

~It is pretty obvious if you read the play. If you are interested, read it. If it's homework, do your own.