Romeo & Juliet Nevaeh Allison Final Draft Document. Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight it dies. This quote by Mary Roberts Rinehart especially applies to Romeo and Juliet, for the love they had for each other was ultimately their downfall. Friar Lawrence only played a minor role in their deaths. In the end it was Romeo and Juliet's fault due to them already knowing it was nearly impossible for them to be together, yet they still chose to risk it. Furthermore, Romeo and Juliet were reckless, the Montague and Capulet feud, and Romeo and Juliets false concept of love. First and foremost, Romeo still went to the Capulet party knowing the risks. Not only that, Romeo snuck into the Capulet's garden knowing that if he were to be discovered it would be his ruin. On another note, after Juliet found out she was being forced into marrying Paris, her first thought of escape was killing herself without stopping to think of another solution. And finally, when Romeo was alerted of Juliet's death, he immediately decides to go buy a poison from an apothecary so he can kill himself. …show more content…
Another illustration is after they both found out each other's true identities, and they still selfishly decided to continue meeting up in secret and sneak around. To further prove my point, in the play when Juliet says, “What is there in a name? She knew deep down that in her and Romeo s case there is everything in a