The Death Of Juliet In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

We all know the classic story Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's play about rivaling families in Verona, Italy. When the daughter of the Capulet family and the son from the Montague family fall in love after meeting at a Capulet party that Romeo snuck into, they fight for the chance to be together. Juliet drinks a potion given to her from Friar Lawrence to imitate death to get out of marrying a family friend, Paris, like her parents were pushing for. Before that, Romeo was exiled for breaking the ‘no fighting’ rule and killing Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt. Romeo thinks that Juliet is really dead since he wasn’t around to know the plan Friar Lawrence and Juliet had with the potion, and kills himself too. When Juliet wakes up and finds her love dead, she kills herself as well. With both lovers gone, the opposing families rethink their
There are many reasons why Romeo caused him and his love Juliet to die. First, he falls in love too easily. “With Rosaline, my ghostly Father? No. I have forgot that name and that name’s woe” (II. iii. 48-49). This was when Romeo told Friar Lawrence about Juliet right after they had met. Friar Lawrence thought he was still talking about Rosaline, his old love, but Romeo had already moved on. If he would have slowed down with girls and even just with Juliet, they might have not been so rushed and desperate to be together. Another reason Romeo was responsible for his and Juliet’s death is because he reacts too quickly without thinking. As he said after the fight with Juliet’s cousin Tybalt: “Oh, I am fortune’s fool” (III. i. 142)! What Romeo was meaning when he said this was that he has terrible luck and shouldn’t have done that. This quote and event in the story shows Romeo reacts too quickly out of anger. He should have stopped and thought