Why did Romeo and Juliet die?

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Why did Romeo and Juliet die?

Was it fate?

Was it adolescent passion?

Was it the feud?

Was it fathers?

What other causes?

For many reasons people wonder why Romeo and Juliet died some people think it was by fate and some think it was their adolescent passion, this is what makes Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet one of the greatest love stories and also a great symbol for true love.

Lets revise the story to analyse the cause of their death.

As the story opens we can see that Romeo and Juliet’s family the Montague’s and the Capulets are feuding and at the beginning of the play it is said that the two families have been feuding for so long that the families have forgotten why they are actually fighting. The two families are disturbing the peace in Verona so much that prince Escalus himself had to break up a fight between the two families.

In the beginning the story starts with Romeo who is in love with Rosaline but Rosaline does not show any feelings for Romeo and then coldly rejects Romeo, Romeo then tries to repair his broken heart by going to a party to take his mind off the pain.

At this party he meets Juliet and immediately falls in love with her. Unfortunately Juliet happens to be a Capulet (as discussed before Romeo was a Montague and the two families are feuding)

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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 ...

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