Summary: The Tragedy Of Romeo And Juliet

“O Romeo, O Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” This quote from one of Shakespeare’s most well known plays “Romeo and Juliet” is probably one of the most well known quotes from the story. The tragedy of “Romeo and Juliet” starts out as a tale of two star-crossed lovers whose fate led them to meet while they each came from two families who hate each other. Throughout the play, they fall more and more in love and are so desperate to be together they end up killing themselves in the process. This may have ended the feud, but it still ended with two teenagers, one’s mother, one’s cousin, and one’s best friend dead. Romeo and Juliet may have killed themselves, but their deaths were caused by fate, and their families’ hatred toward one another.

Fate

and the feud between their families are ultimately to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet. Others may think that Romeo and Juliet themselves are to blame because they let their emotions get the best of them and ended up killing themselves. However, they are wrong, because Romeo and Juliet’s feelings were normal human emotions. If it weren’t for fate, they never would have met, and all of this wouldn’t have happened. Also, if it weren’t for the feud, they wouldn’t have needed to hide their emotions. Since they had to hide their emotions, everything built up and they got so overwhelmed they killed themselves. Although they may have actually killed themselves there are many more people/things to blame for the death of these two teens

Fate is one of the number one causes of the early deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet were just feeling normal human emotions like love, and sadness, and anger. Lots of people have experienced love at first sight, the only difference is that Romeo and Juliet’s love at first sight was more intense, and strong. If it wasn’t for fate, Romeo might have met Juliet at a later time, but fate caused them to meet at the dance and fall in love with each other while their families hated each other. If he hadn’t met Juliet until later in the story he might have been more in love with Rosaline. His love for Juliet wouldn’t have been as intense, and the family feud might have been solved by then. Fate also caused there to be a plague when Friar Lawrence’s letter was supposed to be delivered. “I could not send it – here it is again – Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, so fearful were they of infection.” Said Friar John to Friar Lawrence. In this quote he states that he couldn’t get the letter to Romeo because no one wanted to go to Mantua as a result of the plague. This caused Romeo to not know Juliet wasn’t actually dead. Not only were Romeo and Juliet killed by fate, but they were also killed by the feud between their

families.

Again, another big cause of Romeo and Juliet’s death was their families’ feud. If the two families hadn’t been fighting, Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t have needed to hide their relationship. Romeo and Juliet got married in secret, slept together, and became so desperate to be together they had Friar Lawrence come up with a plan to help them run away together. The plan would have worked if Friar Lawrence’s letter had delivered to Romeo. Since it didn’t get delivered their plan didn’t turn out and it ended with both teens killing themselves. The family feud caused many deaths, and Romeo’s banishment. The families hating each other resulted in Tybalt wanting to kill Romeo, but instead he killed Mercutio. Tybalt killing Mercutio angered Romeo, who then killed Tybalt and was banished. Juliet and Romeo loving each other put together with the family feud made Juliet very upset. “My only love sprung from my only hate!” said Juliet while she was being sad about not being able to be together with Romeo. Romeo and Juliet were just two teens who fell in love at the wrong time.

The deaths of Romeo and Juliet were ultimately caused by their families’ hatred for one another and fate, even though they are the ones who actually did the deed of killing themselves. In the end, Romeo and Juliet’s deaths were caused by their own fate because if it wasn’t for fate they wouldn’t have met while their families were fighting, and they wouldn’t have fallen in love while the feud was going on. The deaths were caused by the feud because if it weren’t for the feud Romeo and Juliet could have been together in peace, and nobody would have needed to die.