He makes a decision to marry her the next day. Friar Lawrence who is the priest marries the couple but by doing this conflict between the two families increases causing the death of Romeo’s friend Mercutio who is killed by Juliet’s cousin named Tybalt.
This causes Romeo to be furious and with an uncontrollable rage causes him to kill Tybalt.
People in Verona decide to banish Romeo from the city as this happens the Capulets were planning Juliet’s marriage to Paris, this makes Juliet sad because she does not love Paris so she asks Friar Lawrence to help her fake her own death with the use of a specially prepared sleeping potion to make her sleep and look like she is dead.
Friar Lawrence would send the message that Juliet was not dead but in a deep sleep but sadly he is not able to send the message to Romeo.
When Romeo hears the wrong story he goes to the tomb where Juliet lay and takes a vial of poison after this the sleeping potion wears off, Juliet wakes up only to see her lover dead beside her.
In deep sorrow Juliet impales herself with a dagger killing her, when the two families find them they organise a funeral and the two families put both their differences behind them and make peace with each other.
After reading the story we can see many causes of their death such as fate, chance, adolescent passion, the feuding, fathers etc.
Feuding: if the two families were not fighting Romeo and Juliet would not have been sneaking around the they were, the families should have resolved there differences a long time ago Shakespeare mentions that they do not now what they were fighting about.
The constant feuding causes violence very good evidence of this is when Romeo kills Tybalt.
Fueding started of with fear, fear of which family would dominate fear led to anger, anger led to predujice and predujice led to violence. The two families could be one of the reasons why the lovers died.
Fate: it is said that Romeo and Juliet were star-crossed lovers (prologue, line 6) meaning that they were not really meant for each other, astrologers say that certain star signs do not fit together because their traits and characters are different, maybe this was the case of Romeo and Juliet.
If Mercutio never persuaded Romeo to go to the party he would have never met Juliet and if they never met they would not have died and Mercutio too.
People believed that fate was not on their side when Romeo and Juliet were in love there were many obstacles, which blocked their full commitment to each other, like their families who forbade their love for each other.
It was fate that caused Romeo to mistake Juliet for dead If Friar Lawrence gave him the letter before he heard of the news he would still be alive.
Fate is able to decide future outcome of events.
Adolescent passion: some people say that Romeo and Juliet were never in love to begin with, if Romeo and Juliet were not young and good looking they would not have had ‘love at first sight’ which led to their immediate infatuation with each other they thought they were in love but they were not, it is impossible to fall in love with someone at first sight.
I believe that they were too quick in their relationship by getting married the next day after just after just meeting them.
Mature people get to know each other well before getting married.
Romeo and Juliet got married without both their parents consent, if they told their parents before getting married they would not have suffered the consequences.
Romeo and Juliet’s adolescent passion can be seen when both of them use the nurse as their messenger, by doing this it shows the lack of maturity from both of them.
You can almost compare Romeo and Juliet with Anthony and Cleopatra as they both died because of their love for one another.
Fathers: the parents of Romeo and Juliet where a great obstacle to their relationship because they where two families who where constantly fighting each other.
If the parents where more friendly and understanding Romeo and Julie would not have had a sneaky relationship.
When Juliet told her father Lord Capulet that she did not wish to marry Paris, he was very angry and also adding the fact that she is married to Romeo makes things even worse.
He felt like he had been taken for a fool after everything he had done for her in the play he says “Gods bread, it makes me mad day, night, work, play, alone in company, still my care hath been to have her matched” (act three scene five, lines 176 to 179).
Which means that all he ever wanted was happiness for his daughter, Lord Capulet who had promised Paris his daughter’s hand in marriage decides to warn her saying that if she does not marry Paris he will disown her, which led to Juliet faking her death and causing the tragedy that is soon to come.
Conclusion: in the conclusion I would say again that there are many reasons why Romeo and Juliet both died, based on my opinion I think it was the feuding of the two families that caused the catastrophic death of Romeo and Juliet. I also believe that fate plays an important part in this story and without it the story would not have gone the way it did.