Juliet - Deaths Toy

Dalton Parkinson Green 7th Due Date: 12- -12 Prompt #1 Death is a cold, cold soul. He plays with people, traps, and then releases people back into their lives after seeing their life flash before their eyes. But he can just as easily end your life with the drop of a hat. In Romeo & Juliet, Death decides to have some fun. The lure? Juliet. The winning prize? Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Romeo and yes, Juliets lives. O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead! That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds, Which too untimely here did scorn the earth. (Benvolio, Act 3, Scene 1) Death makes his mark by Mercutios murder at Tybalts hand. Juliet attracted Romeo. And this brought the family feud among the young generation higher. Then, out of revenge, Romeo murders Tybalt. Romeo, away, be gone! The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death, If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away! (Benvolio, Act 3, Scene 1) This causes Romeo to be forced to go to Mantua. A land of the exiled citizens. Juliet has mesmerized Romeo through her beauty. He is not himself anymore. He is malicious, murderous, and love struck. Not to mention infatuated. And towards the end of the play, Romeo has not received word of Juliets awaking from the poison, and in panic, goes to Verona to bid farewell to his lost love. He travels to her sepulcher, and there, he meets Paris. Paris accuses Romeo of arriving for purposes such as tomb-raiding and defiling the body. And so Romeo taunts Paris to fight him. Paris and Romeo fight, and Paris falls. O, I am slain! Falls If thou be merciful, Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet. Dies (Paris, Act 5, Scene 3) Romeo goes to Juliet, kisses her farewell, then drinks his poison, to lay with his bride. Here's to my love! Drinks O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. Dies (Romeo, Act 5, Scene 3) As Juliet awakens, she realizes Romeo has drunk the poison and has passed. Juliet has caused all of this trouble, simply by her beauty. So she takes a knife, and decides to end her life to be with her love. Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! Snatching ROMEO's dagger This is thy sheath; Stabs herself there rust, and let me die. Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies (Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3) Multiple deaths, tragedies, and feuding all traced back to a young womans beauty. Death works in crazy ways. Crazy, maniacal, and evil ways. And to sum this whole tragedy up, I will provide the prologue. Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous

overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. (Prologue)