5.1 A Fatal Message

Prompt B: True love clouds ones vision and prevents them from acting and thinking clearly.

Prompt C:
1. Romeo: Why did you go to such lengths to buy poison from the apothecary when you could have killed yourself with a dagger?
2. Romeo: How did you believe that Juliet died - from natural causes or suicide?
3.  Why hasn't anybody else told Romeo that the Capulet's were planning to marry Juliet to Count Paris?
4. Balthasar: Why are you so dedicated to Romeo- are you an employee of the Montagues?
5. Romeo: Why are you so lighthearted at the beginning of the scene? Are you not sad about your situation with Juliet?
6. Apothecary: How have you become so poor and desperate for money to break your morals and sell the poison to Romeo?

Prompt F: Although Romeo is portrayed as heroic and well-intentioned, it is clear that he still holds to the common class structures of their time. This is evident through his brief yet revealing encounter with the apothecary, who is far less fortunate than Romeo and the Montagues.  Off to his self-inflicted death, Romeo could have left this starving man with any amount of money for his services, yet he only gives him enough to bribe the man into letting him buy the illegal poison. Romeo has been accustomed to a certain lifestyle, and lacks sympathy for the people who are considered below him. He tells the apothecary to "buy food"with the little money he has given him, and does not show much compassion.  Throughout the novel, Romeo is too tied up in his own grief to care for others.