Risking Relationships In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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In the play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Romeo is constantly willing to risk anything to maintain his relationship with Juliet. Since both of Romeo and Juliet’s families are rivals it’s difficult for him to keep a good relationship with his family while he loves Juliet. Throughout, the book Romeo and Juliet are both risking their relationships with their families to save their love. Not only are they risking their relationships with their families, but there also risking their lives for their love. The choice they make, of love over family, is a difficult choice, and one that ends in tragedy.
Romeo continues to prove that he will do anything for Juliet, even change his name just to be with her. In Act 2, Juliet is speaking to herself but doesn't know that Romeo is right under her balcony listening. She says that she wishes Romeo wasn't a Capulet and that he can disobey his father and change his name. Romeo responds to her and says, “I take thee at thy word. Call me but love, and I'll be new …show more content…
Friar Lawrence ends up giving her a vial to drink that will make her sleep or “die” for 42 hours. She will take this the night before the wedding, and won’t be able to wake up the next morning. Juliet speaks to her father before she takes the vial, and can't find a respectful way to tell her father that she doesn't want to marry Paris. Juliet says to her father, “To beg your pardon. Pardon, I beseech you! Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.” (4.2.22-24) She begs her father for forgiveness, and promises to forever obey him, and agrees to marry Paris. Immediately after she says this, she goes against her father by drinking the vial to Romeo so she can miss the wedding the next morning. She is portraying a two-faced character here because she acts to her dad as if she wants to get married to Paris but she really would rather death than to marry
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