Miscommunication Can Be Deadly Miscommunication is the root of misunderstanding what people want in their daily life. In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, many of the characters do not communicate thoroughly resulting in a tragic incident happening to them. The lack of clarifying their wishes, and requests, refusing to say what is happening in their lives, as well as judging things too soon is what causes the tragedies to happen. In Romeo and Juliet, the failure to communicate properly is the reason for the tragedies to happen in this play. The lack of clarification of Juliet’s desire lead Nurse, and Capulet to assumptions of what she wants. After Nurse comes back from searching for Romeo around town to deliver him messages from …show more content…
Marry come up, I trow; Is this the poultice for my aching bones? Henceforward do your messages yourself. Here’s such a coil! Come what says Romeo? … Go, I’ll to dinner, hie you to the cell. (2.5.54-77) Since Nurse went off topic multiple times during their conversation, it is a failure of being assertive and getting right to the point of the topic. Capulet is reluctant to allow Juliet to marry Paris, but later on when Juliet did not express her feelings about Romeo and her marriage with Romeo, it allowed them to be opposed of Juliet’s feelings and enforced Juliet to marry Paris. She tells her mother that she does not want to be married; “Now by Saint Peter’s Church and Peter too, He shall not make me there a joyful bride.” (Shakespeare 3.5.116-117). Capulet is now irritated by Juliet’s obedience that he curses her