Romeo and Juliet

Explain what the punishment is for selling poison and why the apothecary decides to sell it to Romeo.

Act 5

Asked by
Last updated by Aslan
Answers 1
Add Yours

The punishment for selling poson is death but the Apothocary sells it because he is so poor:

Then be not poor, but break it, and take this. My poverty, but not my will, consents.