Question

What motivates the apothecary to risk his life to "help" Romeo?

Greed
Malice
Compassion
Poverty


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Answer 1

Any ideas on this?

Answer 2

here is the relevant passage from Romeo and Juliet:

Romeo.
Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor:
Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have2870
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
As will disperse itself through all the veins
That the life-weary taker may fall dead
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder fired2875
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.

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,2880
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.2885

Apothecary.
My poverty, but not my will, consents.

Romeo.
I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.

Answer 3

major lines to pay attention to:

- Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor:
Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have2870
A dram of poison

- Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,

- My poverty, but not my will, consents.