In Romeo and Juliette: When Romeo drinks the same potion as Juliette shouldn'

Question:In Romeo and Juliette: When Romeo drinks the same potion as Juliette shouldn't he too, fall asleep only not die instead? Because I'm sure it can't be over dose since the bottle is small and Julitte already drank the half of it. So what gives? Anyway if you have a good reason for this please share and no funny stuff!! I'm just curious.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: In Romeo and Juliette: When Romeo drinks the same potion as Juliette shouldn't he too, fall asleep only not die instead? Because I'm sure it can't be over dose since the bottle is small and Julitte already drank the half of it. So what gives? Anyway if you have a good reason for this please share and no funny stuff!! I'm just curious.

Wow, amazing how many people have it mixed up on here. What happens in Juliet gets something from Friar Lawrewnce to FAKE her death, that's the poison that she drinks. Romeo then, being exiled from Verona, gets poison from someone in Mantua because he hears that she is dead. He goes to her tomb (Juliet really being alive, just haven taken something to make her unconcious) and drinks the poison because he thinks she's dead. Juliet then awakens and see's her true love dead, and tries to drink the poison that he just died from, alas there is none left. ("Drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after?") so she tries to kiss his lips in order to poison herself ("I will kiss thy lips; Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them, To make me die with a restorative." but that does not work. She then hears people coming, so she finally plunges Romeo's dagger in her heart. ("Yea, noise? then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger!
This is thy sheath; [Stabs herself.] there rest, and let me die.")

It's fiction...anything can happen.

he doesn't drink the same potiion!

i thought he had a different potion or someone had placed another one too....? good question...

I think you need to re-read that part.

He doesn't drink the poison- there was none left and there was no 'sweet poison on her tender lips' or something like that. He stabs himself, I think.

he drinks poison he got from someone else, then juliet wakes up from the potion she drank and had some of the left over poison, she got the poison by kissing him cause the bottle may have been empty and poison was still on his lips. or she took a dagger to herself

read more carefully, romeo drank the poison not the sleeping potion because he thought Juliet died, then Juliet woke up and found out Romeo died, then she drank the poison and died

Juliet got her "drug" from the Friar. Romeo bought poison from the Apothecary. They were two different vials.

No, Juliet didn't take poison, she took a drug to make her seem dead when she really wasn't...Romeo didn't know and thought she was really dead so he took real poison because he didn't want to live without her.

Romeo didn't take the same potion as Juliette. She drank the sleeping potion which made her appear dead. He took a poison that killed him. When Juliette woke up, Romeo had just taken the potion.

Potion.
Poison.
Different.
See?

Juliet gets her potion from the Friar prepared from herbs. The vial is never found, because she does drink all of it in her bedroom.

Romeo purchases his posion from an Apothecary, who explains how it will kill him. That is the posion he takes.

You might be getting confused as a result of Juliets monologue when she awakes and finds Romeo's dead ("posion I see hath been thy untimely end") - she trys to drink some from the vial, but there is none left. She tries to kiss him hoping some posion still lingers on his lips. Then she takes his sword to commit suicide.