Romeo And Juliet Cause And Effect Essay

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The Cause of the Death of Romeo and Juliet Two households that are alike, but have hatred for one another have their own children who fall in love. The children are clueless and would do anything to be with each other, even if it meant disobeying their own families. The child from each household, Romeo and Juliet, fall in love with each other at first sight. Although their families don't like each other, they would do anything to be with one another, even if it meant doing something dreadful. In addition, their actions have affected their families, in a way they’ve ruined their relationship with their parents. In the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, their impulsive decisions are responsible for the deaths of …show more content…

After that, her parents discuss with her she will be marrying Paris the next day. She doesn’t wanna marry a man she doesn’t love and goes for help to Friar Lawrence. He then discusses his plan with Juliet and on how she can secretly be reunited with Romeo again. He brings up that she must drink something that will make her be asleep for forty-two hours, but make her appear dead. Juliet begs for it “Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!” (Shakespeare IV.i.121-125). Furthermore, when Juliet is begging for the drink without thinking about what can happen to her, something can go wrong making the plan not work. Then again, Romeo and Juliet act on sadness and kill themselves. When Romeo was supposed to receive word from Frair Lawrence to be at Juliet’s tomb when she awakened, he never did. When he saw her in the tomb, he assumed she was dead. He never made sure she was alive by checking her pulse or making sure she was breathing. Seeing her dead made him drink poison and died beside Juliet. When Juliet had awaken, she saw Romeo dead and said “Yea noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” (Shakespeare …show more content…

More importantly, they were acting recklessly and emotionally because they were in love and didn’t take anything into consideration. In conclusion, the deaths of Romeo and Juliet were driven by their love, neglecting any consequences that would affect them. While it is possible that their impulsive decisions are to blame, ultimately adult interference caused the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. For example, Lord Capulet agrees to Paris that Juliet will marry him the next day, but Juliet doesn’t want to and needs to find a way she can get out of it. She goes to see Frair Lawrence to see what she can do about it and he discusses a plan with her that includes drinking a certain liquor, that will make her appear dead. Something can happen throughout the process, but she didn’t mind because she was willing to take a chance on dying in order to