Which line in this excerpt from act V of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet shows the conflict of person versus self?
APOTHECARY: Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law
Is death to any he that utters them.

ROMEO: Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks,
Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,
Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back;
The world is not thy friend nor the world's law;
The world affords no law to make thee rich;
Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.

APOTHECARY: My poverty, but not my will, consents.

Respuesta :

Answer: APOTHECARY: My poverty, but not my will, consents.

In this excerpt, we see an apothecary (the equivalent of a pharmacist nowadays) and Romeo. Romeo wants to buy poison, while the apothecary refuses to sell it to him because it is illegal. However, Romeo can tell the man is very poor. He is thin, looks hungry and is obviously in need. Romeo tells him to ignore the law, because he could use the benefit of the money he is willing to pay. The apothecary sells him the poison, but tells him that he does so unwillingly, because of his poverty. The conflict is between two factors that are important to him: on the one hand, his values tell him that it is wrong to break the law, and on the other, his poverty forces him to break it anyway.

Answer:

APOTHECARY: My poverty, but not my will, consents.

That's what I got on Plato