In act v, scene i of romeo and juliet, what role does the apothecary play in the catastrophe? he tells romeo that juliet has died. he sells romeo the fatal poison. he accompanies romeo to juliet’s tomb. he fails to deliver a letter to romeo.

The character of the Apothecary sells Romeo the fatal poison. When his servant Balthasar brings Romeo the "ill news" of Juliet's death, he asks him to hire some horses, since he wants to travel to Verona that same night. When Balthasar leaves, he starts entertaining destructive thoughts. "I do remember an apothecary," he says, and he describes his unkempt look and the inside of his bizarre pharmacy. He then recalls what he thought when he saw him: " [...] if a man did need a poison now [...] here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him." He did not need the lethal poison back then, but he is determined to get it now in order to end with his life, and he is convinced that the pharmacist will sell it to him, even though he could be sentenced to death for doing that, since he surely needs the money. The pharmacist finally agrees, impelled not by his will, but by his poverty.

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He sells Romeo the fatal poison

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.