This happiness is sharply contrasted to the sadness and anger that takes over, when Balthasar tells Romeo of Juliet’s death. The true tragedy is that the reader knows Friar Lawrence sent a message to Romeo telling him of Juliet’s fake death and that Romeo had not yet received the news. Balthasar’s news results in Romeo immediately buying poison and rushing to Verona with the intent of dying beside Juliet. “A dram of poison; such soon-speeding gear/As will disperse itself through all the veins/That the life-weary taker may fall dead” (5.1, 63-65). It is through all of these errors and mistakes that the plot of Act 5, Scene 1 helps to make Romeo and Juliet a true tragedy.
Their relationship is doomed from the outset, which is made clear to the audience within the prologue, ‘two star- crossed lovers take their life’. There are many factors that take place prior to this scene that can be argued as contributing to the death of the protagonists but overall the family feud seems to play the leading role. The purpose of this essay is to discuss both the feud and the effects of the other factors on the young lovers’ fragile and fate- driven lives. The scene begins outside the tomb with Paris and his page; he is visiting Juliet with flowers because he is under the illusion that she is dead, ‘Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew’. She is in fact only sleeping for 24 hours as a result of a poison she has taken as part of a plan concocted by her and Friar Lawrence in order to ensure her love for Romeo survives.
(Stabs herself) There rust and let me die.”-P. 579 lines (169-171). It’s really sad that all of this could have been avoided if Juliet would’ve just left with Romeo or if their families gave up their hatred for one another. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet’s personality drastically changes. At first Romeo was love-sick and Juliet didn’t want anything to do with marriage. Then they meet, fall in love and get married.
Romeo, in an act of revenge, kills Tybalt. The Prince, trying to maintain peace, banished Romeo from Verona. The Nurse brought the news to Juliet “Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished; Romeo that killed him, he is banished” (Romeo and Juliet 2. 2. 69-70 ) This made Juliet miserable over Romeo's banishment, meanwhile her parents thought her unhappiness was over Tybalt's death.
Romeo was told by Balthasar that Juliet was now living with the angels, and without the letter from the Friar, Romeo did not know Juliet was in fact still alive, and miscommunication once again played a toll on Romeo and Juliet. When Romeo goes to visit Juliet at her tomb he is devastated, he can’t live life without Juliet and decides to kill himself. In his last speech he says “Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe that unsubstantial death is
Antigone was also doomed from the beginning. She was doomed from the beginning despite her noble intentions to bury her dead brother. Antigone from the play “Antigone”, by Sophocles, is a tragic her because she exhibits all the qualities of a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a protagonist in a tragedy who must have a tragic flaw. Antigone from the play “Antigone” indeed does have a tragic flaw.
This mirrors the scene in which Romeo and Juliet first catch each others eye, and fall in love instantly. When the Capulets enter the bedroom with the bad news, this corresponds with when it all begins to go pear-shaped for the star-struck couple, when Romeo kills Tybalt in revenge. Shakespeare uses foreshadowing and foreboding to hint to the audience at what the lovers' fate will be. We know something bad
Also, he is saying that she is about to become his wife. For Paris to express his feelings to Juliet in such a short scene would be very difficult for him. Paris is genuinely heartbroken when he thinks that Juliet is dead; 'Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew...The obsequies that I for thee will keep nightly shall be to strew thygrave and weep. Paris goes to visit Juliet's tomb and talks to her whilst she lies there in apparent death. He compares her to a flower, which seems to be his way of showing affection.
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, it might have been.” -Kurt Vonnegut. After reading Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, all one can think about is what might have been. Set in Verona hundreds of years ago, two rival families continue to fight because of an “ancient grudge” (Prologue.3) Two teens, Romeo and Juliet, fall in love, defying their families rules. After only a couple of days, their love cause both of their deaths. Friar Lawrence was the cause of their deaths for his irresponsibility and lack of urgency to solve the conflict he started.
For the death of Romeo's mother, I put the blame on Tybalt and for Mercutio's death, Romeo is to blame. Romeo and Juliet are the offspring of the two most important families in Verona, who are also enemies. When they meet each other, they automatically fall in love, and start defying the feud. It is Romeo and Juliet's forbidden love that gets Paris killed. When Romeo is in the tomb to see Juliet's 'dead' body, he comes across Paris.