What Decisions Deadly Caused Romeo And Juliet's Death?

Roby Flores
Ms.Gustafson
FUCP-008
2 May 2023
Which Characters’ Decisions Primarily Caused Romeo & Juliet's Death?
Romeo & Juliet’s death came from their fatal flaws along with Friar Lawrence’s. Had the characters made different choices, they may have had their happily ever after. In Romeo & Juliet, these “Star-crossed Lovers” meet their tragic end because of their plethora of bad decisions and unhealthy mental state. Being from feuding families, they keep their relationship a secret with few exceptions. One of the more important exceptions is Friar Lawrence, who marries the two. In the play, many of these characters contributed to the lover's death. Still, the most responsible were Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence and their flaws which inevitably

In the story we are told that Juliet is 13 and Romeo is about 16, both of them are very young and thus immature, but as a 16 year old Romeo went from “loving” Rosaline to “falling in love” with Juliet the next day, not only does he fall in love with her, he evens makes plans to marry her after this night, they end up getting married the next day. Later on in the play there is a scene where Tybalt stabs and kills Mercutio, and Romeo being unable to control his emotions kills Tybalt which leads to him being banished from Verona and goes to Mantua. If Romeo were more mature and was able to think things through before acting, then he may not have been as obsessed with Juliet and he wouldn’t have killed Tybalt which led to Friar Lawrence’s bad

His flaws were that of bad planning and his desire for peace. Driven by his desire for peace, Friar Lawrence marries Romeo and Juliet despite knowing they had just met the day prior, he then devises a plan so that Romeo and Juliet may escape and live happily after Romeo is exiled. His plan wasn’t so bad on paper but it wasn’t foolproof. His plan was that Juliet woud fake her death before her arranged marriage and Romeo would come back and take her from her coffin and they would run off together. When Juliet fakes her death, Romeo only hears that she has died so he goes off and buys poison and returns to Verona, when he sees the Prince and Juliets body, he kills the Prince and then kills himself, shortly after Juliet awakes and stabs herself with Romeo’s sword so that they may be together in death. If Friar Lawrence had a more secure plan so that Romeo would for sure know the plan, then he wouldn’t have bought poison and he would’ve known Juliet wasn’t really dead so he wouldn’t have killed himself and neither would Juliet. Friar Lawrence never intended for this to happen he just wanted to help these newly weds to live a long and happy life where they wouldn’t have to worry about their feuding families, his fatal flaws are just the outcome of short sighted planning and not