Romeo and Juliet

This fight between Mercutio and Tybalt led to the death of them both, which led to Romeo being banished from Verona, leaving Juliet heartbroken. “O God! Did Romeo 's hand shed Tybalt 's blood?” (Act 3, Scene 2) is a quote said by Juliet, showing how distraught is over this situation. This leaves Juliet visibility upset and her parents notice this sadness of hers. Her parents end up promoting up the idea that to cheer Juliet up, they arrange a marriage to her suitor, Paris, to come earlier than expected.

Shakespeare uses the role of fate in Romeo and Juliet to show how love and bad decisions can change the ending of a story. First, fate brings these two “star-crossed lovers” together (R&J Prologue.6). The lovers are star-crossed because they are from two families (the Montagues and Capulets) that have had an “ancient grudge” (R&J Prologue.4). These two families hate each other so much their servants started a fight in the first scene just because they were from the other family. The fact that the lovers are star-crossed, yet they still love each other is a bad decision because it leads to their doom.

Romeo was so depressed about his unrequited love for Rosaline when it just so happens, he goes to a masquerade party. There, he falls for Juliet, the daughter of Lord Capulet, and forgot about Rosaline. When they're finally torn apart, that's when both Romeo and Juliet realize they are from enemy families. Their love, of course, brings down their immediate marriage and Friar Lawrence agrees in hope to stop the feuding families. Unfortunately, Tybalt and Mercutio are killed and Romeo gets banished leaving Juliet without a husband or a cousin.

Tybalt and Mercutio provoking one another plays a big part in the death of Romeo and Juliet. The family feud causes Romeo and Juliet to keep secrets from their family which also results in their death. Lastly Capulet forcing Juliet to marry Paris is the main reason why they ended up giving their lives for one another. At the end both families admit that it is their own faults that their children died. The death of Romeo and Juliet puts them at peace, after all Romeo and Juliet's love story changes the Capulet and Montague feud into

Juliet says, “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet”. It means that she wishes that Romeo wasn’t a Montague, so she wants him to have a different name. Also because of the family feud Romeo kills Tybalt leading to him being banished and Juliet’s and Paris’ wedding to be arranged.

Speak not, reply not, do not answer," and goes to the friar looking to kill herself. Her father later makes a decision to move the wedding to Wednesday. This greatly upsets Juliet. The desire of her father for Juliet to marry and calling her a wretch and hussy run Juliet into a corner with nothing left to do but marry to save herself. Also, after Romeo kills Tybalt Juliet's mum says, "I'll send one in Mantua, where that same banished runagate doth live, shall give him such an unaccustomed dram that he should soon keep Tybalt company, and then I hope thou wilt be satisfied".

Juliet’s parents (the Capulets) wanted her to marry a young man named Paris, which was not the wish of Juliet but to get married to her lover Romeo. But she (Juliet) is very obedient to her parents and her father told her she will be sent away from the house if she refuses to marry Paris. This gave Juliet a lot of disturbance and went to seek advice from a peacemaker called Friar Lawrence. The violence and conflict affected the whole play because both Romeo and Juliet died at the end of the play and also both parents of the lovers were at conflict. Also Romeo killed Tybalt (a cousin of Juliet) for killing his friend Mercuito.

Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Ed. John Dover Wilson. London: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Romeo, being so angry that he slew his good friend, ran and slew Tybalt to get him back. All of this led to Romeo being banned from Verona, which is what really starts the miscommunication between the couple of Romeo and Juliet, and eventually leading to more deaths. One other character who dies due to the situation of Romeo and Juliet is Paris. Paris is a young count who is kinsman to the Prince. Paris is originally supposed to marry Juliet by choice of Lord Capulet, but since she is married to Romeo, hence she seeks Friar Lawrence for an idea.

After a twist of fate, Romeo is banished and Juliet is engaged to another man by her father. Juliet decides to fake her death in order to stay true to her love, Romeo, but he does not receive the message of her plan. He learns of her death, journeys to her grave, and poisons himself. Juliet, seeing him dead, kills herself. The tragedy of the lovers heals the brood between the two families.