Violence In Romeo And Juliet
Love as a cause of violence can be seen throughout William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy about two lovers whose love for one another leads to their double suicide. Act 3 Scene 3, Act 4 Scene 1, and Act 5 Scene 3 demonstrate this link between Romeo and Juliet’s passionate love and violence that leads to their deaths.
A tense atmosphere is present when Romeo, hiding in Friar Laurence’s cell, hears news of his banishment in Act 3 Scene 3. The Friar is struggling to make Romeo see his banishment as a blessing, as he is not being executed. Romeo, unable to see beyond his banishment asserts, “‘Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here, where Juliet lives” (III.iii.31-32). The torture from his banishment is the violent result of the love …show more content…
Juliet approaches Friar Laurence for a solution that will prevent her marriage with Paris. Having been already married to Romeo, Juliet tells the Friar, “Give me some present counsel, or, behold, ‘Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife” (IV.i.62-63). Juliet threatens violence to kill herself unless the Friar can help. Her loyalty already remains with her true love, Romeo. Juliet would rather die than betray him, similar to Romeo’s threat previously made. Later in the Capulet’s tomb, Juliet wakes from her death-like sleep to find Romeo dead. She realizes he killed himself with poison and decides to, “kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,” so that she would die with him (V.iii.169-170). However, it didn’t work and when she hears a noise promptly resolves to, “Be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust and let me die” (V.iii.174-175). Romeo and Juliet commit a final act of violence because of their love for one another with a double suicide. Both overcome with grief over the others death, give up their own life to be with the other. Both Romeo and Juliet link their love to violence, which finally lead them to end both their lives in a double suicide.
Love as a cause of violence continues throughout Romeo and Juliet until the inevitable conclusion of Romeo and Juliet’s
A tense atmosphere is present when Romeo, hiding in Friar Laurence’s cell, hears news of his banishment in Act 3 Scene 3. The Friar is struggling to make Romeo see his banishment as a blessing, as he is not being executed. Romeo, unable to see beyond his banishment asserts, “‘Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here, where Juliet lives” (III.iii.31-32). The torture from his banishment is the violent result of the love …show more content…
Juliet approaches Friar Laurence for a solution that will prevent her marriage with Paris. Having been already married to Romeo, Juliet tells the Friar, “Give me some present counsel, or, behold, ‘Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife” (IV.i.62-63). Juliet threatens violence to kill herself unless the Friar can help. Her loyalty already remains with her true love, Romeo. Juliet would rather die than betray him, similar to Romeo’s threat previously made. Later in the Capulet’s tomb, Juliet wakes from her death-like sleep to find Romeo dead. She realizes he killed himself with poison and decides to, “kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,” so that she would die with him (V.iii.169-170). However, it didn’t work and when she hears a noise promptly resolves to, “Be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust and let me die” (V.iii.174-175). Romeo and Juliet commit a final act of violence because of their love for one another with a double suicide. Both overcome with grief over the others death, give up their own life to be with the other. Both Romeo and Juliet link their love to violence, which finally lead them to end both their lives in a double suicide.
Love as a cause of violence continues throughout Romeo and Juliet until the inevitable conclusion of Romeo and Juliet’s