The friar is trying to show us here that he only agreed to married them to bring peace between the families. Romeo then has a fight with Tybalt and kills him and gets banished from Verona.
Juliet makes a plan to fake her own death so she can go and live with Romeo but the plan goes wrong when the message telling Romeo what is going to happen doesn’t reach him. Friar Lawrence who was supposed to make sure the letter gets to Romeo cannot send it to him as his currier can not go out side because of the plague. But this is too late Romeo reaches Juliet and sees her there unconscious because she has taken some poison which slows your heart beat right down as part of the plan which was unknown to Romeo. Romeo didn’t know about the plan so he thinks she is dead and kills him self and then when she wakes up Romeo is dead so she kills herself as well.
The ancient (had been going on for a long time) feud between the Capulets and Montagues could also be said to be the reason for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. This feud lead to the on going grudge within the two very alike house holds.
‘From ancient grudge break new mutiny’
In this quote it is saying that the ancient grudge will carry on through new younger people such as Romeo. In the prologue it also talks about the blood shed on both family sides.
‘Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean’
You can tell that the family arguing has been going on for years and is strong when the prince of Verona catches some of the two families fighting in the streets, neither family would back down because of their pride. When the prince arrives he commands the fighting stop or he will give them the penalty of torture. The Capulets and Montagues throw down their weapons. The Prince declares the violence between the two families has gone on for too long, and proclaims a death sentence upon anyone who disturbs the peace again.
Romeo’s fight with Tybalt with led to him killing him I think this was coursed by Romeo love, of when he went to see Rosaline when he shouldn’t have been there. This made Tybat very angry and Tybalt, a person who was always up for a fight, wouldn’t let this go away. Mercutio had some blame in Romeo killing Tybalt because he was also up for a fight and he would not leave like Benvolio was telling him to.
‘I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire:
The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,
And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl;
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.’
In this quote Benvolio is saying to Mercutio lets go because the capulets are about and if we see them then there will defiantly be a fight because of the growing tension. When Mercutio was killed this made Romeo kill Tybalt and I think that if Mercutio had listened to the advice of Benvlio there would not of been any deaths at that time. In the first place Romeo did not want to fight and he said that he likes the Capulet family. He says this because he has just married Juliet there for Tybalt is his cousin, as he shown in this quote.
‘And so good Capulet,—which name I tender
‘As dearly as mine own,—be satisfied.’
Romeo has these feelings because unknown to Tybalt or Mercutio or anyone else he is married to Tybalt cousin Juliet. Romeo had to pay deeply for this murder as he was banished from Verona. I believe that if Mercutio and Tybalt hadn’t been fighting then Romeo wouldn’t of killed Tybalt. There for he wouldn’t have been banished. With Romeo banished from Verona the only way Juliet felt she could see him was to use her plan.
Juliet’s father had a part to play in the deaths of his daughter and Romeo. The arrangements for Juliet’s wedding are already being made without Juliet agreeing or willing to go forward and with her still currently married to Romeo. This shows that Juliet cannot make decisions herself, her father makes them for her and doesn’t want her making any input into the matter. If she had told him that she wanted to get married to Romeo then it defiantly would not been allowed. Fathers ruled their daughters at the time. Fact that her and Romeo could not to be together was because if they were known to be a couple it would bring disgrace and shame to both families. Juliet had to make her plan so that she could try and get out of the marriage with Paris and be with Romeo. So I think that if Juliet’s father had let her choose who to marry she wouldn’t have been pushed into her plan and therefore killed her self.
states that Romeo and Juliet have ‘death marked love’ and that they are “star-crossed”—that is to say that fate (a power often for told in the movements of the stars) controls them ,‘A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life’. ‘death marked’ is saying that they were approaching their untimely deaths .This sense of fate goes right through the whole play, and not just for the audience, the characters also are quite aware of it.
‘Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy’
In this quote Romeo states that he does not care what misfortune might come, as it will never be in comparison to the joy he feels right now. Romeo and Juliet constantly see omens. When Romeo believes that Juliet is dead, he cries out, “Then I defy you, stars,” completing the idea that the love between Romeo and Juliet is in opposition to the destiny of the ‘death marked love’.
If the friar Lawrence’s letter had reached Romeo telling him about Juliet not really being dead then I think that Romeo defiantly would not of killed him self and Juliet wouldn’t of neither. They would have then went away together and live peacefully.
Romeo and Juliet loved each other so much after not even knowing each other for very long. Like in the balcony scene, Romeo is so in love with her that he sneaks up to the balcony of her room to see her. He then talks to him self about how much he loves her. Juliet suddenly appears at a window above the spot where Romeo is standing. Romeo compares her to the morning sun, far more beautiful than the moon it banishes. He nearly speaks to her, but decides not to. Juliet, talking to her self and unaware that Romeo is in her garden, asks why Romeo must be “Romeo—a ”, and therefore an enemy to her family. She says that if he would refuse his Montague name, she would give herself to him; or if he would simply swear that he loved her, she would refuse her Capulet name.
“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.”
Romeo responds to her appeal, surprising Juliet, as she thought she was alone. Juliet wonders how he found her and he tells her that love led him to her, this relates back to fate. But it is not just Romeo who feels so strongly about their relationship as shown by this quote
“Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.”
Juliet is saying here that she could kill Romeo by cuddling him too much, that shows how she loves him and that it would be extremely difficult for her and Juliet to part.
“Parting is such sweet sorrow”
This quote is an oxymoron as ‘sweet sorrow’ is contradicting its self as sorrow can not be sweet. In this scene Romeo makes lots of references to the sun, moon, light, the stars and angles and heaven about Juliet to show that he is inferior to her. He does this because she is his light and finds her so beautiful that he finks she could be an angle. They fell in love with each other at first sight and they were so curious about each other and wanted to find out so much about each other as soon as they met.
I think that they might have been too deeply in love and might have died because of this. Like when Romeo found Juliet and thought she was dead he killed himself and if he wasn’t in love with her so much then he might not have done is atrocity. This proves that their love for each other is so pure that they would even sacrifice their own lives then rather be with out each other. She so much wanted to see him again when he got banished that she decided to rush into a plan and not take time in planning in.
‘It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight’
In this quote from the marriage scene Romeo is saying that he gets so much joy out of one minute of seeing Juliet. In Act 3 Scene Five when Romeo has to leave Verona for Mantua early in the morning so that he doesn’t get caught, Juliet is begging him to stay there with her for longer. Juliet tries to convince Romeo that the birdcalls they hear are from the nightingale, a night bird, rather than from the lark, a morning bird.
“Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree:
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.”
Why did Romeo and Juliet die? And who or what was to blame for their tragic deaths? I think that there are several key factors which lead to their deaths. One being the feud between the families (this hatred is never explained so the reader must accept it as a certain aspect of the play) because if it was not hostile they would have been able to be together and they would not have to turn to faking Juliet’s death for them to be together.
Another very significant reason for the deaths I believe is that they loved each other too much. I believe that it was just an adolescence crush which went to far. And if they did really love each other as much as they fought, it was dangerous. As it leads to Romeo’s determination to spend eternity with Juliet resulting in his suicide. Of course you can also say the same about Juliet.
The main deciding factor in their deaths I believe is fate, and how all the events lead up to the tragedy. Fate works in all of the events surrounding the lovers: the feud between their families, the series of accidents that ruin Friar Lawrence’s well-intentioned plans at the end of the play, and the tragic timing of Romeo’s suicide and Juliet’s awakening. These events are not coincidences, but fate helping to bring the unavoidable deaths of the young lovers.
