Romeo And Juliet Courageous

A wise, Chinese philosopher, Lao-Tzu, said, “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, depicts two lovers’ courageous, somewhat unbelievable love for each other, reaching beyond a stereotypical teenage relationship. Their affection gives them strength to go beyond all means to be together, and if they cannot be together, then they cannot be apart. Romeo comes from the Montague family and his love, Juliet, belongs to their rival, the Capulets. The fighting keeps the teens from being together publicly and drives them to secretly get married. The immense love between Romeo and Juliet remains so strong, the young teens die for each other, forever …show more content…
She knows she cannot have Romeo right away since she agrees to marry Paris only to please her parents; however, the wedding is moved to the following day, causing her to contemplate suicide. She seeks out Friar Lawrence, hoping he has a way to get her out of this second marriage, since it is unlawful and against the church to be married to two men at the same time. She begs the Friar, “Be not so long to speak. I long to die / If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy” (4.1.68-69). Shakespeare confirms that not just Romeo will go to drastic measures for love. Likewise, Juliet threatens her life when being with Romeo becomes a larger challenge than she expected. Though Romeo and Juliet are still young teenagers, their relationship surpasses average teenage affection. Their love is so strong that when Friar Lawrence proposes Juliet fake her death to get out of her betrothal to Paris, she leaps at the suggestion. The thought of marrying Paris and never seeing Romeo again gives Juliet the courage she needs to take the potion, even when she has doubts about its effectiveness. Before drinking the potion she says, “My dismal scene I needs must act alone / Come, vial / What if this mixture do not work at all?” (4.3.20-22). Juliet second guesses her decision to drink the potion, and begins hallucinating that she sees her dead cousin, Tybalt. Juliet cries …show more content…
When Romeo hears of Juliet’s “death” from Balthasar, he cries out, “Is it e’en so? —Then I deny you, stars / Thou knowest my lodging. Get me ink and paper / And hire post-horses. I will hence tonight” (5.1.25-27). Romeo denies the stars, meaning he is denying his and Juliet’s fate or destiny. He immediately begins planning his return to Verona at the news. Upon reaching Verona with the poison he got from the apothecary, Romeo goes straight to the Capulet’s tomb. After fighting and killing Paris in the graveyard, Romeo enters the tomb and finds Juliet “dead.” He pulls out the poison and says, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight / Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift / To enter in the thoughts of desperate men” (5.1.37-39). He sounds unmistakably distraught and it is clear in these three lines how deeply Romeo loves Juliet, that he says he is willing to kill himself and lie with Juliet in death. When Juliet awakes moments later, she finds Friar Lawrence and her dead husband. She refuses to leave with the Friar and weeps on Romeo. She finds the vial of poison and tries desperately to get one last drop from the bottle crying, “O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop / To help me after! I will kiss thy lips / Haply some poison yet doth hang on them / To make me die with a restorative” (5.3.168-171). Her love, passion, and devotion to Romeo

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