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Essay On Suicide In Romeo And Juliet

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Suicide is not a great thing to encounter or witness. It 's horrible for the family and friends who love have been with the person who takes their life. Romeo and Juliet are not mature to understand and deal with the feeling of love and so their impulse is suicide. They need to grow up more and become real adults so they can find away to marry each other without the family 's fighting each other. Romeo was older but he didn 't understand love unlike Juliet which she was younger and knew very little too. The reason they would choose suicide to be together is because of 3 reasons. These reasons were Romeo’s banishment, Juliet forced to marry paris, both believe the other is dead.

Romeo’s banishment was a tragic thing for Juliet and the Montague family because no they won’t be able to see each other. Romeo doesn’t like it one bit that he says he would kill himself and Juliet thinks the same way too. The way this happened was Romeo killed Tybalt for Tybalt killing Mercutio. That was Tybalt’s fault so the prince said he won’t die just be sent away which Romeo of course said that being away from his Juliet is worse than dying. They argued but it happened which was a bad thing …show more content…

Their plan was going well but friar laurence ask a guy to give a letter to Romeo which would tell him that he should go to Juliet and take her out of death area and be free with her. Romeo got a different message instead which was Juliet was dead not she was pretending to be. Romeo returns to verona to buy poison so he could die with his lovely Juliet and they can be together. Friar laurence tries so hard to find Romeo but he was on his way to Juliet death bed and on his way Paris was there he was blocking Romeos way to Juliet. Romeo kills Paris which he didn 't know who it was but soon went to Juliet was lying there peacefully and he drinks the poison. When he drinks it juliet wakes up and tries to drink the leftover poison in his mouth but then kills herself with Romeo 's dagger which is

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