Gender Roles In Romeo And Juliet

On average, 34,000 Americans commit suicide every year, and over half of those deaths are made up of teenagers. In the play “Romeo and Juliet”, the two teenage lead roles end up killing themselves. Most readers believe the main theme in this play is that parents shouldn’t control their children’s hearts or else an act of defiance like this can occur. A less obvious message though that Shakespeare could be trying to tell readers is that often teenagers do not think before they act and do immature, stupid things before thinking about the consequences. This would make sense because Romeo’s character is one who conveys this theme a lot in the drama. In “Romeo and Juliet”, Romeo and Juliet fall “madly” in love with each other and think they need to be married after meeting each other for the first time at Juliet’s dad’s party. This is the first time in the drama that this theme of immaturity and stupidity comes about between these two. Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. They know they can’t marry each other, in fact, love between the two families is forbidden. Only hate can be felt between anyone in the two families. Also to add to the mixture, they don’t

Knowing this, she can’t bear to cheat on the one she loves so dearly and makes a plan with the Friar to fake her death. Romeo was supposed to get word of this plan, but a series of events prevents this and instead of hearing about the plan he hears otherwise. Balthasar tells Romeo she is actually dead, unaware of the scheme between the Friar and Juliet. Romeo is devastated, buys poison from an apothecary, comes back to Verona, kills Paris and then kills himself before even thinking. When Juliet awakes, she is devastated Romeo has committed suicide and then does the same. The only good thing that came out of the deaths was that they paid the price for peace, and the feud