Teenage “suicide is the second-leading cause of death among children and young adults aged 10 to 24” (Fox, 2015). In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet both commit suicide. Analyzing the story, it becomes obvious that these teens were likely to commit suicide because of the risk factors and lack of protective factors in their lives. When teens feel hopeless they are likely to commit suicide. People have different reasons to die by their own hands. Emotional, environmental, and, mental are the three categories that most people's reasons fall into. Undoubtedly, emotional causes often spur from breakups, or other drastic negative changes in social life. Oftenly, teens will commit suicide to “ escape feelings of pain, rejection, hurt, being unloved, victimization, or loss”(Tracy, 2016). Consequently, when teens have no solutions for their problems they feel that suicide is the solution. “Bullying, cyber bullying, abuse, detrimental home life, loss of a loved one or even a severe breakup” are ways that the environment can increase the chances of voluntary death (Tracy, 2016). Also, “Most teens who attempt suicide do so because of …show more content…
Both Romeo and Juliet were at high risk because they had been grieving over the loss of each other; plus they had nowhere to turn to for help. Additionally, the couple was in a high risk environment.They were both being forced out of their homes for different reasons and felt that life without the other was hopeless. Furthermore, Romeo and Juliet had proven to be rash teens and made impulse decisions taking them to their demise. Romeo commits suicide because he thinks Juliet is dead; Juliet feels helpless when she sees him dead, so she stabs herself. The young lovers seemingly couldn’t cope with their grief; they took their lives in common ways. Romeo and Juliet felt despondent, and they recklessly determined to expire
The Deaths of Romeo and Juliet Was it just one person’s fault, or a mixture? In this essay, I will include many different reasons as to why Romeo and Juliet die. I will explain in detail each point and put forward my own opinions. I will use quotes to back up each point and explain why the historical context is relevant.
Multiple characters are to blame for the tragedy of the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romeo displays his immaturity by liking girls solo based off their looks, Juliet falls for Romeo and his willingness and impatience. While Friar Lawrence know is is a sin, he has an idea to help them be together,
end I will come to a final decision of who actually was to blame for
In “Romeo and Juliet by: William Shakespeare” we know that they commit suicide in the end for love and we probably don’t think about it much, but in real life things like that happen. Many teens commit suicide by medicine or drugs which is shown when Romeo thinks Juliet’s dead and drinks the poison. One issue that is proven in “Romeo and Juliet by: William Shakespeare” is that alot of teens today face certain things like depression which cause Teen Suicide.
Simon Virk Ms. Tsang ENG201-08 02/17/16 Unnecessary Suicide 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. Friar Lawrence’s unwise and poorly crafted plans led to the lover’s death.
Tragedy plays end in a tragedy. This is about Romeo and Juliet, which is a basic love story that
...t on the spot, and are too immature. Romeo and Juliet’s spring of blind love quickly deepens and causes them to face situation that they have never faced before. They do not know how to handle their bizarre complications, as the story takes a quick, unpredicted turn and turns into a nightmare for them. Romeo and Juliet are forced to make rash decisions one after the other and do not consider the possible solutions other than suicide, causing them to look up to suicide as their only hope. Their bizarre complications are caused by their blind, immature, and excessive love and their act of taking their own lives is also caused by immaturity, idolatry for each other, and the shortness of time. Romeo and Juliet suicide at the end of the story, due to the shortness of time and the extremity of their love; they believe that they have no other options, other than suicide.
There are many things which can drive a teen to commit suicide some of them are as simple as making fun of the “fat” kid in class; others can come from the mental images from witnessing a shooting. There are four major issues which contribute to teen suicide such as depression, family problems, risk factors, and teens reactions to there climate. Depression, unfortunately, is one of the biggest factors of today’s teenage suicide problems and some of the reasons for it are from the student’s own peers, “being depressed is triggered by loss or rejection (Joan 59).” Depression can be f...
To many teens, suicide may be the idea of escaping from their reality. They gain this overwhelming sense that if they are dead, everything will be better. But will it really? Teenage suicide has become more and more of an increasing contention in recent times. Even more so since the times of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has the suicide epidemic evolved. What started as a every so often thing you would see on the news has turned into something you hear about more often than you should. Suicide has become a common way of escape and dealing with problems for teenagers, along with many other groups of people. As for in Romeo and Juliet, this is exactly what happens. Romeo and Juliet both use suicide as their way of coping and escaping from what
Suicide is the second leading cause of death in teens. Most teens commit suicide mainly because of bullying which pushes teens over the edge; because they believe what their peers say about them. Studies show that more teens are dying in this generation than any other generation due to suicide. Bullying is the biggest cause of teen suicide because it pushes people to believe that it is the only way out, makes people feel worthless, and causes the most mental problems in teens.
In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Juliet decides three times that the best way to solve her problems is to take her own life. Her first contemplation of suicide is when Romeo is banished from the city-state of Verona; he was banished because he slayed Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin. She ponders “I’ll to the Friar to know his remedy. If all else fail, myself have power to die.” (III, v, 241-242) She beseeches for help from the Friar so that she can return to Romeo and refuse Paris’ marriage proposal, but if the Friar can’t help, Juliet is prepared to kill herself. The second time she tries to fix an issue through death is when Friar Laurence creates a plan for her to feign her own death so that Romeo can be reunited with her in
They both chose to kill themselves because of the big confusion that wasn’t supposed to happen. Romeo wasn’t told that Juliet wasn't actually dead. Also even if the other person was dead they shouldn’t kill themselves they should grieve and move on so their deaths are because they chose to not want to deal with the death of the other and so it was a choice of if they wanted to live and grieve or die and be
Juliet was immature and didn’t think things through, as well as Romeo, which lead to this big mess. So many death’s occurred because of both of them. They both killed themselves and it was because of desperation. Juliet thought she finally got someone who will love her, Romeo thought he found love again. He would not be heartbroken anymore.
The story of Romeo and Juliet is a great play with a very tragic and unfortunate ending. The two main characters, Romeo and Juliet, commit suicide and no one tries to stop or help them. Throughout the play they were trying to figure out ways to be together and they had help from two people, Friar Lawrence and the Nurse. Both of them were just trying to make them happy. Sometimes trying to make someone happy can backfire and the situation can get worse.
There are multiple negative effects of teen suicide. Large numbers of teens that do not have support from friends, peer groups, family, or religious association may and can feel isolated from the world and disconnected. (Larry’s). The tragedy of a young person dying as a result of overwhelming hopelessness is devastating to everyone. Suicide rates differ between boys and girls. Girls think about and attempt suicide about twice as often as boys, and attempt suicide by overdosing. Boys die by suicide about four times as often as girls, due to using more lethal methods, such as firearms, hanging, or jumping from heights. (Nock). There are several different factors that may lead a teenager to take their life, but the most common is depression. Feelings of hopelessness and anxiety, along with feelings of being trapped in a life that one cannot handle, are contributors to teen suicide. It is important to be on the lookout for signs that your teen may attempt suicide. Some of the warning signs are similar to normal adolescent behavior. At times, preventing teen suicide means treating teen depression. Since 75 percent of the people who commit suicide are depressed (according to the University of Texas), it is a beneficial start to begin treating the symptoms of teen depression. (Teen Suicide Overview).