Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a story of two lovers, who are forced to end their own lives in an attempt to be together. There are many people throughout the story who are partly to blame for this outcome, but the main influence on Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths is Romeo himself. This is because of his impulsive behavior and forcing others to carry the burden with him. At first, it seems that Romeo and Juliet would have just as much influence on the final outcome as each other, but the difference couldn’t be bigger. Unlike Romeo, Juliet takes almost no action in this story. She doesn’t go out looking for trouble or force things to happen. Towards the beginning of this play, this is shown when Romeo attends the Capulets’ party in disguise, leading to him meeting Juliet and them falling in love. Even though it wasn’t really his decision to attend the party, he had much more influence on it than Juliet, who, as shown in the quote “The only man I …show more content…
He is a careless person, blinded by his love for Juliet. The biggest example of this is when Romeo hears of Juliet’s “death” and doesn’t waste a minute to run to her grave and kill himself. If he hadn’t acted so quickly, he and Juliet would have been able to live happily for the rest of their lives. Proven by how in the movie, Juliet wakes up only seconds after Romeo drinks his poison. It is unreasonable to expect Romeo to assume Juliet’s death to have been a fake one, set up by her and Friar Lawrence, but there was no reason that he couldn’t have gone to talk to Friar Lawrence to learn what happened, or at least he didn't need to rush. Along with that, after the Capulet party, Romeo wastes no time to abandon his friends and get back to Juliet, while Juliet just sits on her balcony already thinking of ways that they could possibly be together, “Romeo, lose your name. Trade in your name-- which really has nothing to do with you-- and take all of me in