Another major decision that led to the terrible ending of the play is Romeo and Juliet 's decision to keep their love and marriage from the world. A reader can see this when their parents and the prince were unaware of their marriage. This supports the main idea of the essay because perhaps if they new about marriage they could have figured a way to make the feud stop or make it not such a big deal like the friar said it might. If their love wasn 't a secret Romeo and Juliet would have never had to have made a plan to escape from Verona. This is important because they would have never committed suicide if the plan was never made. If their love was open to everyone Mercutio and Tybalt would have never had to die. If they never had to die