Romeo And Juliet's Death

We first see a choice by either Romeo or Juliet that begins to affect the tragedy of their death when we see that Romeo decides to go to the Capulet’s ball. What had happened was Romeo was on the streets of Verona when a servant, who is illiterate, comes up to Romeo and asks for his help reading a list of people to invite to a party. Romeo begins to read through this list and sees that a girl named Rosaline is being invited to this party. At this point in the story, Romeo is in love with a girl named Rosaline and wants nothing but to marry her. After seeing Rosaline’s name on the invitation list, Romeo also notices that the party is being thrown by the Capulets, his family’s adversary. While Romeo knows that he should not attend this ball due
Romeo would have never met Juliet, had he decided not to go the party, and in effect him and Juliet may have never fallen in love and killed themselves. Another time we see a choice made by the two leading characters of this story that affected the tragedy of their demise is when Romeo and Juliet choose to get married in secret. They know their families are enemies, and fear that if they tell their families they’re in love, then they will be forced to no longer be together. For this reason, Romeo and Juliet go to someone they can trust to marry them, who happens to be a friend of the couple named Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence knows marrying them will come with consequences if Romeo and Juliet’s families find out, but he decides to marry them anyway. We see this confirmation from Friar Laurence from this line on page 1042 of our English literature textbook, “Come, come with me, and we will make short work.” Consequently, the Montagues and Capulets continue feuding since they do not know that Romeo and Juliet are together. Instead of marrying in secret, Romeo and Juliet should have “manned up” and told their parents that they were together. At the very least, Juliet’s wedding to Paris would never have been
After Juliet agrees to marry Paris, she makes a plan with Friar Laurence to drink a sleeping potion that will make her seem dead; the reader sees why after reading Juliet’s line “O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris.” on page 1074 of our Literature Textbook. Since Juliet agrees to do this, the people around her, be it family, friends, etc., actually believe that Juliet is dead. Her family holds a funeral for her and are in unbelievable pain over her “death”. Romeo also believes that Juliet is dead and kills himself not knowing Juliet is alive. Of course, soon after he has done this is when the potion wears off and awakes in her family's mausoleum to see a dead Romeo. This causes her to literally freak out and search Romeo for some more of the potion he used to kill himself to kill herself. When Juliet is not able to do this, she finds a knife on the ground that she uses to stab herself in the stomach with. Their deaths’ were almost like an unspoken suicide pact. So, had Juliet not gone along with Friar Laurence’s plan, Romeo would not have killed himself, which means Juliet would not have killed herself and the two would’ve had the opportunity to tell their families’ that