William Shakespeare brought us what some may consider the most well-known romance in history; and it killed both lovers. According to an article posted by Google Sites, contributing factors to teen suicide include “feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness, emotional/physical/sexual abuse, and lack of a support network (parents, peers), or feeling of isolation.” While these factors apply to society today, many of them also apply to Romeo and Juliet. Among other factors, hopelessness, emotional abuse, and lack of support apply to the unlikely couple. To begin the play, Romeo is already downhearted over the loss of his previous sweetheart, Rosaline. Romeo and his friends secretly decide to a party thrown by his family’s enemy, Capulet. When Romeo arrives at the party in a depressed mood, he has high hopes of seeing Rosaline. Instead he spots Juliet and instantaneously falls in love. In a split second, Romeo transforms from heartbroken to entirely lovesick. From Juliet’s point of view, she is a thirteen year old girl isolated in her home. This party is where she has been told she will meet her future spouse; an older man. The plans for the night take an alternate route. Upon a short conversation between Romeo and Juliet, a passionate kiss occurs. Juliet has no knowledge of Romeo’s marital status, and states that if he is married, “My grave is like to be my wedding bed” (Peele). Clearly the two have quite a bumpy ride ahead of them. Romeo proceeds to sneak back to the
At one part in the play his friends think he is still in love with Rosaline when in fact he has forgotten about Rosaline and is in love with Juliet. Romeo is quick to arrange the wedding and doesn’t wait to visit Friar Lawrence. The fact that Romeo and Juliet didn’t stop to think about marriage is one of the factors that contribute to their deaths. The Friar also thinks Romeo is in love with Rosaline and expects that he has spent the night with her, because he is in a good mood “God pardon sin! Wast thou with Rosaline”, but instead he has spent the night with Juliet. Romeo has a close relationship with the Friar, he acts as a father figure. This is shown when the Friar tell him he is banished. Romeo threatens to kill himself but Friar Lawrence stops him and gives Romeo some advice as Romeo knows he can trust the Friar “ Let me dispute with thee of thy estate”.
One morning there is fight between the servants of the Capulet and Montague families and soon after is stopped by the Prince. The prince tells all of them that the next time they disturb the peace the punishment will be banishment by death. After that Capulet plans a feast to introduce his daughter Juliet to Paris, who plans to marry her. By mistake Romeo and his friends Benvolio and the Prince’s cousin Mercutio, hear about the party and decide to go in disguise. Romeo hopes to see see Rosaline but instead he meets Juliet and falls in love with her. Juliet’s cousin Tybalt recognizes the Montagues and have to leave the party just as Romeo and Juliet find out who they are. Romeo stays near the Capulet’s house and has a conversation with Juliet when he sees Juliet on her balcony. With the help of Juliet’s Nurse, they arrange to meet at friar Lawrence’s cell the next day when Juliet goes for confession, and they get married.
At the beginning of the story Romeo chooses to attend the Capulet’s party to see Rosaline, who he was secretly in love with. Romeo
Many teenagers make bad decisions, and act in a way most adult would say is unintelligent. Romeo and Juliet was a story about two feuding families with the same wealth living in Verona. After a big fight Prince Escalus tells them that if there is another fight they will be killed. Later that night Romeo meets Juliet at her father’s party and they both fall in love, after the party Romeo talks with Juliet about getting married and she agrees to have the wedding the very next day. After the wedding the two families get into another fight. Due to the fight Mercutio and Tybalt gets killed. Romeo who was also fighting was sentenced to banishment even
They’re parodied, sometimes even demonized in the media for their type of typical teenage behavior. They take risks, they’re sometimes moody, they’re very self-conscious.” (Doc A). The intellect of teens is evidently the reason for Romeo and Juliet taking all the risks. As they both were still teens, they more willingly took risks to spend as much time with each other as possible, which resulted in their deaths. However, they were both self-conscious as Blakemore said as they knew when to separate and leave or when to kiss or not kiss. Furthermore, they both may have committed suicide as a result of going into depression because initially, Romeo thought Juliet was dead and ended up drinking the poison. Later on, Juliet had woken up and realized Romeo had killed himself which brought her into a state of depression and ended up stabbing herself. Furthermore, Blakemore mentions that students are more likely to take risks when compared to mature adults: “We know that adolescents have a tendency to take risks. They do.
Romeo and Juliet have got to be the some of most immature teenagers to exist. Even if they are fictional characters. In the not so much love story, “Romeo and Juliet”, by William Shakespeare, They never managed to improve with maturity, just becoming more immature once they fell in love with each other. If the two teenagers threatening and actually killing themselves over one’s separation or death of the other doesn’t prove that, then there’s not much else that would. Suicide is just one of many ways they were immature and didn’t get any mature throughout the story.
The reason they commit suicide is because they both deal with depression. In the story you can tell that these two teenagers love each other, but you know that juliet is going through a hard time because romeo killed her cousin out of revenge. Rome got banished for that action and that is where all the depression from both of the lovers come into play. The reason that it comes into play here is because they were suppose to be getting married but now they can’t because Romeo is no longer in the city so Juliet and the Friar come up with the idea to have juliet fake her death and have romeo come back for her. When Juliet is faking her death a messenger was suppose to be sending romeo and letter about the plan but it never reached him. When Romeo shows up to Juliet's family tomb he finds her and he doesn’t know that she isn’t dead, he kills himself then Juliet wakes up to find him dead. Juliet finds his dagger then she kills
Today’s world, 2016, an average of 1 person every 15 minutes commits suicide a day in the United States. When someone loses a loved one they ask, why that person did such a grand action. Was it work, school, or family that caused such emotional trauma? Even with direct reasons pointing to those close to a depressed person, people always blame the one who physically did the killing, the suicidal person. But what if they were pressured to do things they didn’t want to, harassed about choices they made, or ignored for the things they liked? All of these things happened to Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, the Shakespeare play containing two star-crossed lovers, two enemy families, and two suicides that have stood the test of time and has captured the
Teenage romance tends to be really confusing and painful. However, even if it ends badly, it typically does not end in the death of either party. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, this unfortunately is not the case. Romeo’s love for Juliet ends with both of their suicides. In the prologue to the play, it says “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”(Prologue line 6), suggesting that fate determined the deaths of these teenagers. This may be a romantic idea for a play, but this tragic ending likely results from the unwise decisions made by a fourteen year-old boy and a thirteen year-old girl. Romeo and Juliet’s deaths happen due to Romeo’s fickle attraction, Juliet’s submission to his advances, and both of their reactions
Romeo and Juliet In the novel Romeo and Juliet, two “star-crossed lovers” are on a journey to marry and live together forever. They meet at a ball and fall helplessly in love, or so it seems. Them meeting at the ball soon leads to them both dead, a tragic suicide. They killed themselves, after knowing the other for only a few days, because they “loved” one another.
“The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, reveals that teens like Romeo and Juliet go through their own phases during life that many teens like them have. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, whose families are rivals end up falling in love, but many problems are pushed their way. Since teens value reward over risk they tend to make decisions that could potentially affect them in the long run. Many teens, like Romeo and Juliet, would prefer the to receive rewards despite the risks.
Romeo is depressed because the girl of his dream does not show affection back to him. Until the moment he lays his eyes on the most beautiful young women he has ever seen. The one he can not stop staring at is a 13 year old girl named Juliet. Romeo had drawn the beautiful Juliet’s attention, and the two official met. Romeo and Juliet hold hands and which Romeo says they are meant to be together. In which Romeo and Juliet both share a kiss back and forth taking the sin of each other's lips. Eventually Juliet has to say goodbye to Romeo because the nurse needs Juliet to find her mother who had not attended the mask
The suicide was a price for the only way to bring the streets of Verona to peace. The Prince Escalus had only wanted the feud to end without violence. Unfortunately Prince Escalus had tempted fate even more by having the family's some what get along or else the penalty for fighting in the streets was death.
Romeo, a young man from the Montague family, is in love with a woman named Rosaline but she has sworn to be a nun for the rest of her life. Romeo and his friend Benvolio happen to stumble across a Capulet worker named Peter, who is trying to read a list of invitations to a masked party at the Capulet house. Romeo helped Peter read the list and decides to attend the party because Rosaline will be there. He plans to wear a mask so that he will nobody will recognize him as a Montague. When Romeo arrived at the Capulet’s party in his costume he sees Juliet. It was love at first sight. However, Juliet's cousin Tybalt recognizes Romeo and wants to kill him on the spot. Lord Capulet gets involved, insisting that Tybalt does not disturb the party because it will anger the Prince. Romeo quietly approaches Juliet, talks to her and then they kissed. After the party, Juliet told her Nurse about Romeo and Juliet asked her Nurse to go find Romeo. When Juliet's’ Nurse tells Romeo that Juliet is a Capulet, he gets upset. Meanwhile, Juliet is similarly upset when she finds out that Romeo is a Montague. Later that night, Romeo climbs the wall into Juliet's garden. Juliet is standing on her balcony and speaks her thoughts out loud not knowing that Romeo is there. She wishes Romeo could marry her. Romeo hears her and
The play begins with a fight between the Montague's and the Capulet's. Romeo enters the scene thinking about a girl named Rosaline, and Juliet enters the scene after just hearing that someone named Paris likes her. Paris and Juliet plan to meet at a party that night, and Romeo and some of his friends decide the crash the party because Rosaline is planning to attend. Later that night, Romeo and Juliet lay eyes on each other and instantly fall in love. They later learn that they are enemies, however that cannot keep them separated. The two decide to have a secret marriage with the help of Friar Lawrence and Juliet's Nurse. Juliet's dad decides that Juliet will get married to Paris in just two days. She is frightened by this idea. She runs to Friar Lawrence's