Within the play Shakespeare uses death to show the downsides of love and the ultimate result in conflicts. To show the impact of death, Shakespeare successfully uses Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet and other minor characters to develop the effect of death.
From the very beginning of the play, Shakespeare introduces death as the penultimate result of love, displaying a common theme of tragedy. First shown in the prologue the story of the 'star crossed lovers' is demonstrated to be destructive as the 'death marked love' is the root of their troubles. Shakespeare successfully shows the negative effects of love and sets a tragic tone for the rest of the play as the audience is already aware of the 'violent end' of the play and pick up on the irony of knowing the ending before the plot. Continuing the idea that love is taunted by death both
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Juliet demonstrates this learning about the banishment and wishes for' death, not [to take] Romeo, take [her] maidenhead' instead which Shakespeare uses to later mirror Romeos equation of 'banishment' to 'death' which expresses how the idea of death is entwined with their love and feeling she whole time. At the end, much to audience expectations, both lovers die and Shakespeare uses this to emphasis the sadness that come about in love. By using the death of the two as a physical representation of loves pain and grief, Shakespeare successfully shows death to be an inevitable action that concludes in tragic ends.
Furthermore Shakespeare presents death as having drastic effects on those around them and that death is linked and caused by many others lives. for example throughout the play Shakespeare shows many characters death such as 'Tybalt', 'Mercutio' and 'Lady Montague' all of whom