Suicide In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare, it was a play, publicized in 1597. It was tragic drama about two people who fell in love, but their families didn’t approve their relationship. In the end, the two lovers committed suicide. Since, Romeo and Juliet committed suicide, there is absolutely a cause for this incident, their parents. 3 main points I think their parents caused this, is one, if their parents didn’t have bad history, Romeos and Juliet’s love would have been approved. Two, if the parents didn’t push Juliet into marriage with Paris. And third, Juliet’s wedding changes. In the beginning, Romeos parents, Lord Montague, Lady Montague, And Juliet’s parents, Lord Capulet, Lady Capulet, didn’t not approve their relationship and love for each other. When two people love each other, they do
Juliet’s and Paris’s wedding date was changed by the parents. Previously, Juliet’s cousin has passed away, when Juliet went to the Capulets house, they assumed she was emotional because of her cousin’s death. But Juliet is hiding that the Wedding day is not happening, this was decided earlier, and about her true lover Romeo, Act 4 Scene 2 Lines 21-22 Capulet says “Send for the county. Go tell Him of this. I’ll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning.” From those lines, this means if the day of wedding wasn’t changed, Friar idea would have had more time to be fulfilled and would had solved the problem. This plan had several unthought out things, for example friar was supposed to give Romeo a letter, saying to go get Juliet out of the tomb, time was running out and the messenger wasn’t going to make it. The parents caused the death because Romeo and Juliet would have been together in Mantua, if the date of the wedding wasn’t

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