Suicidal Impulses In Romeo And Juliet

For ages 10-24, suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death throughout the world. Most people commit suicide due to bullying, abuse, rape, negligence, put-down, and/or other various negative situations. However, not many suicide cases occur due to loving someone for four days, and then killing his/herself when their “lover” dies. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, that is the exact reason the couple took their own lives. Although it may seem like a strange case, they believed it was true, young love. However, young love drove them to commit suicide, thus young love is it’s own self-destruction. The suicidal impulses that Romeo and Juliet experience do relate to young love, which shows how young love typically ends in self destructions.

Throughout the play, Juliet displays suicidal impulses, starting from the moment she met Romeo. After the party, where Romeo and Juliet meet, they speak nearly ten

The couple only worry about the other, which causes them to stress over every little thing they should not be stressing about. The stress then causes them to become depressed when the other is not there for him/her. The depression they experience leads them to suicide, since they believe that they will not be happy without the other alive. Young love is clearly immature, and what Romeo and Juliet are experiencing obviously is not true love. Even the Friar realizes this when he says, “Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!/Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,/So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies/Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”(2.3.65-69). They begin to only like each other out of lust, and lust is not anywhere near love. The young love that they experience leads them into the wrong forms of temptation, and the temptation to which they gravitate leads them to ending their own lives. Suicide is a form of self-destruction, and the couple’s suicide emitted from young