People die every day and many from suicide, it may seem ordinary. Most of these suicides may come from the loss of a loved one. Yet, the family wishes for answers for their loss of their loved one and may begin to ponder who is to blame for this tragic suicide. During the Renaissance time a man by the name of William Shakespeare wrote a play called “Romeo and Juliet”. These star-crossed lovers have to battle through a feud between their two families, and in their case it is not easy. Plenty of unfortunate events are put into place which result into a suicide of the two. However, many people are to blame for the devastating self inflicted deaths of the star-crossed lovers. Still, there are a few specifically that play a enormous role.
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Lord Capulet tried to force Juliet to marry Paris. The reason why Juliet wanted the potion from the friar was because she did not want to marry Paris. The wedding was already on Thursday, and she had no say in what her father had planned. Lord Capulet stated, “Get thee to church o’ Thursday, or never after look me in the face” (3.5.162-163). Caplet is now threatening Juliet by saying if you do not come to your wedding I will disown you. Because Lord Capulet said that, Juliet asked for help from the friar, which that turned into a catastrophe, that lead to her death. As well as the Capulets, the Montagues played a great position in Romeo’s suicide. Romeo’s parents were oblivious towards him by not caring that he is out all night, and they never seem to try to talk to him. Romeo’s parents being oblivious resulted in Romeo acting the same way in the situation where he killed Tybalt and thinking nothing would happen to him. Children gain most of their parents traits. Due to Romeo being unaware of his consequences he got banished from Verona, and moved to a place called Mantua. If his parents were not so insensible of his feelings and choices, he might have thought a tad bit harder before murdering Tybalt. Later on, when Romeo was at the tomb with Juliet starting to kill himself. There is a possibility that he thought it would be the right choice …show more content…
The first key factor that caused their deaths is his impatience. Romeo was way too quick to marry Juliet. He met her at a party and immediately wanted to have a long lived life with her. Even the Nurse from the Capulets tried to talk to Romeo about taking his time, but he was not taking no for an answer and was too impatient, and needed to marry Juliet. The marriage caused some complications. For example they are on opposite ends of a family feud and Romeo still does not put that into consideration and still proceeds even though there are possibilities that they get caught and can’t see eachother anymore. Those anxious examples carried on into Romeo being by her unconscious body about to drink a potion that would kill him. He was too snappy to kill himself that he did not notice Juliet’s eyes moving then staring at him. As well as that, Romeo even states, “is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, and death’s pale flag is not advancѐd there”(5.3.104-105). Her lips are crimson and her cheeks are not pale because she is not actually dead. According to Quora.com they state, “after 30 minutes, the lips, finger- and toe nails fade to a pale color or turn white as blood leaves”. Juliet has been assumed dead for many hours now, so her lips would not be crimson. Romeo then jumps to conclusions and takes his own life. Impatience is the main attribute of Romeo’s,
Juliet strategizes her disastrous plan and worries, “How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo come to redeem me?” (Lines 30-32 of Act Four, Scene Three). Juliet is desperate to see Romeo, ergo she plans to fake her death. Her thoughts of Romeo finding her lifeless foreshadows their future. Romeo is deprived of the news of Juliet’s real state of health, therefore he says, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. O mischief, thou art swift to enter the thoughts of desperate men!” (Lines 34-36 of Act Five, Scene One). Once again, Romeo’s perception is only focused on Juliet. His mental instability leads him to think Paris is in the way obtaining true happiness, thus he slays him. Romeo acquires poison, stands beside Juliet, and states, “Here’s to my love! (Drinks.) O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” (Lines 119-120 of Act Five, Scene Three). Romeo observes Juliet’s body and determines that he should die beside her. Juliet wakes to his lifeless body, and determines she should commit suicide, as well. Romeo’s foolish decisions lead to the death of himself and
Another character who is responsible for the deaths of the lovers in Romeo and Juliet is Lord Capulet. Knowing that her father would disagree with her being married to Romeo, a Montague, Romeo and Juliet were forced to keep their love a secret. In the beginning of the play, Lord Capulet tells Paris that Juliet is still to young to woo and that he should wait two years. However, later in the play, he tells Paris that Juliet will be married to him in two days. After hearing that she will be wed in two days, Juliet goes to Friar Lawrence asking for help. If Lord Capulet did not force Juliet to marry Paris, she would not have had to fake her death. The plan that Friar Lawrence devised to prevent the wedding led to death of Romeo and Juliet.
The lack of communication between the young couple killed them. Romeo’s reaction to seeing juliet dead (not actually dead) was to kill himself. “Oh my love! My wife, death that hath sucked” (3.5.141-142) If Romeo and Juliet planned out the rescue of Juliet's body more thoroughly, Romeo would not have killed himself.
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare is a play about two lovers from different families that have an internal feud between them. It ends in both lovers, Romeo and Juliet, committing suicide as they could not openly live with each other. An important idea in this play is that of the impetuosity of youth and the rash decisions that young people may make. This idea is continuously brought up throughout the play and is explored through the concepts of overreacting and being blinded by anger, desperation in forbidden love and taking your life for love.
Romeo fights and kills Tybalt just because Tybalt slays Mercutio, despite knowing the consequence of fighting -death- he still takes it upon himself as a way to seek repentance for Mercutio’s death. He is able to restrain himself before the death of Mercutio but after his death Romeo falls to his impulsiveness and fights Tybalt. After killing Tybalt and getting banishment instead of a death sentence, Romeo refuses to look on the bright side and goes to Friar Lawrence where he says “Ha, banishment! Be merciful, say ‘death’.” (Act 3, Scene 3 line 12), this shows that he deems life without Juliet life not worth living. He then continues weep then decides to take his own life, the Friar stopped him but had Romeo stopped being so quick to make decisions he would have realised banishment is much better than death and would be rejoicing instead of weeping. Romeo hears about Juliet's “death” from his servant Balthasar he instantly decides to kill himself, he doesn't mourn his loss or even cry, he simply buys poison, rides to Verona and kills himself. Had he spoken to anyone and taken any advice he would realize that suicide is not the answer but he had his mind made in a minute, he wanted to be dead with his wife. Romeo impulsiveness to make decisions is a very important characteristic for him to have and for the rest of the
...re her fake dead body is kept, and drinks the poison he brought with him, hastily, without giving it a second thought, assuming that Juliet was dead and that he might not be able to live without her. However, Juliet wakes up at the moment when Romeo falls dead on her lap and she exclaims, “Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end” (5.3.167), signifying the untimely death of Romeo that occurred due to his unnecessary haste.
Juliet, like Romeo shouldn't have rushed into marrying each other, and Juliet said, "It was too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden. " But she never did anything about this. She went along with the marriage that resulted in death. Also Juliet was already engaged to marry Paris at the time, and she was happy with that and happy with her parents, she shouldn't have disobeyed them, then their love for each other would never have happened. Tybalt is another character that could be to blame.
Unfortunately, Romeo wasn’t informed of the plan, and after he heard about Juliet’s death, he sincerely believed she had died. Balthasar, who told Romeo of Juliet’s ‘death’, didn’t want to leave Romeo unaccompanied because he believed that he looked ‘.pale and wild and did import some misadventure. ’(116) lines 28-29. Balthasar’s suspicions were valid because Romeo decided to take his life. He did not stop to ask how she died, or what Friar Laurence had to say about her death.
If Romeo had not been banished, Romeo and Juliet would continue living a happy life together. Benvolio witnessed the entire fight, the authorities came, Lady Capulet wants Romeo dead which is completely blowing things out of proportion, and in the end, poor Romeo is banished even though he was defending himself and trying to get justice for his best friend’s heinous death. Lady Capulet states, “Benvolio is part of the Montague family. His loyalties to the Montagues make him tell lies. He’s not telling the truth. There were twenty Montagues fighting in this awful riot, and together those twenty could only kill one man. I demand justice. You, Prince, are the man who can give me justice. Romeo killed Tybalt. Romeo must die” (3.1.153). This proves that because of Tybalt’s actions, Romeo was punished, and unfairly banished from Verona. Only one can imagine what it must feel like to be banished from their love, from their family, from everyone. This fact led to their death. This was not the end of Tybalt’s wrong doings however. He had one more trick up his sleeve, even for being
The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet published in 1597 by William Shakespeare is a suspenseful and romantic story about two lovers whose love cannot part them from their feuding families. Although they were responsible for killing themselves, there are certain individuals who influenced them to commit suicide. Those who are most responsible for the unfortunate deaths of Romeo and Juliet include Friar Lawrence, for his selfish desire to be a hero, Capulet, for imposing an ultimatum and his disconnection from his daughter, and the Nurse, for her irresponsibility and betrayal to Juliet.
Romeo denies the fate of Mercutio who fought against Tybalt and lost, so he challenges Tybalt to fight in defense of his honor. His sense of honor would not allow himself to ignore the death of Mercutio. It mandated his absurd behavior to take Tybalt’s life which even further separated the Montague and Capulet family. Moreover, Romeo still decides to marry Juliet after he takes Tybalt’s life. His sense of honor leads him to find Father Lawrence who will marry both Juliet
Although there are many factors to the tragedy of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, some are greater than others. The major contributor to the downfall of these lovers was Capulet, Juliet's own father. He brought upon the death of Juliet by forcing her to marry Paris, separating her from her Romeo, and rejecting her.
The day after he spotted Romeo at a party hosted by his family, he went out looking for him – and a fight. He accidentally murdered Mercutio, Romeo later killed him for revenge. Juliet, rather than being upset by Tybalt’s death, sobbed for Romeo, who was banished for the murder. The misunderstandings regarding Juliet’s grief led to a marriage she felt she could only escape by faking her own death. While Tybalt was not immediately involved in Juliet’s ‘death’, he played such a major role in starting the events that would ultimately lead to it that he must be deemed partly responsible.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a story of two young lovers who caused five deaths, an exilation, and a holy friar to do deceitful works. The fatalities have some controversy with how they were dealt with and reacted upon. Death affects loved ones, and from that comes justice and injustice. The most affected group in one’s death is the family and close loved ones of the victim.
They not only encounter problems they can't cope with because of their youth, but their passionate involvement with each other prevents them from thinking and behaving rationally. Their deaths seem to come as an inevitable conclusion to their star-crossed relationship; it couldn''t end any other