Like the hypothetical kiss between fire and powder of Brother Laurence, Romeo and Juliet spend a night together, then the situation implodes, Romeo being banished for having killed Tybalt and Juliette engaged in Paris. The obsession that the unhappy lovers have for each other is, in the very extremity that brings them together, deadly. Romeo's obsession with Juliet and her honor, and, therefore, mortality, leads to the deaths of many characters, both innocent men and pugnacious brawlers. Romeo's obsession with seeing Juliet and dying next to her leads to Paris' death in front of Juliet's grave. Likewise, the obsession with honor leads Romeo to kill Tybalt, his cousin an hour after the wedding of Romeo and Juliet. At the intersection of his shared obsessions with Juliet and honor, Romeo poignantly declares: “My reputation tainted/By the slanders of Tybalt.” — Tybalt, that hour/Was my kinsman! (III i 73-75). The theme of obsession is a powerful undercurrent in Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare wastes no opportunity to emphasize its importance. When Romeo goes to Friar Laurence to requisition a marriage with Juliet, the Friar says in a mocking tone: "To adore me, not to love, raise mine." » (II iii 82). Here, Shakespeare implies that the attraction that lovers feel for each other is obsessive and reinforces the difference between obsession and true love. Furthermore, he uses frequent and deadly duels to emphasize