Theme Of Death In Romeo And Juliet

Ava Boothe

Mrs. Dewberry/ Mrs. Wayt

English 9

7 March 2023 love into death

“Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty” (Shakespeare.5.3. 91-96) In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare describes the story and talks about how foolish and unmature the story gets over “love”. There are many examples of theme in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. One example of the theme is “Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty” (Shakespeare.5.3. 91-96) In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, the theme when feuds are present death can occur can be seen through Romeo,Juliet, and Mercutio. Mercutio takes Romeo’s place in the fight between the two families, which leads to his murder. In Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet he will discuss a lot of death. Mercutio takes Romeo's place because Romeo has never fought before (Shakespeare 3.1.45-70) Romeo bounced out of the fight between him and Tybalt because Mercutio took his place, Romeo doesn’t know how to fight, nor he ever got into a fight before. Without Mercutio taking Romeo's place, Tybalt would have put an end to Romeo. The author further illustrates, “No, ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but ‘tis enough, ‘twill serve. Ask

Juliet’s plan was not known to Romeo, her plan failed and she died as a result. Shakespeare play states, “Yea, Noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger”( Shakespeare 5.3. 169) When Romeo dies, Juliet is so heartbroken. She ends up killing herself to be with Romeo, her husband. Shakespeare keeps going, Juliet and Friar make a plan in which Romeo and Juliet would run off together and live a happy life together, but Romeo didn’t know the plan, so they both misunderstood the plan and both of them end up killing themselves(Shakespeare 5.3.155) Either Romeo and Juliet really planned things out correctly . Clearly both of these unmature teenages did not think ahead nor did they talk through the plan to understand what will