Why were Romeo and Juliet forced to die for their love? In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two star-crossed lovers are forbidden to love each other. No matter what they do, nothing goes their way, which eventually leads them to leave it all to fate. The feud had the greatest influence on the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because the feud forced them to be apart from each other and got Romeo banished from Verona which means banished from seeing Juliet. The first reason the feud had the greatest influence on Romeo and Juliet’s deaths is because it caused their families to have a deep hatred for each other and would not allow Romeo and Juliet to be together. This thought is brought up by many people, including in this article, “Although this play is considered one of the greatest love …show more content…
Let Romeo hence in haste, / Else when he is found, that hour is his last. Bear hence this body, and attend out will. Act 3, Scene 1, lines 179-180 & 187-189)”. Part of the reason the feud led to Romeo and Juliet’s deaths was that their families could not stand getting along. The feud caused Tybalt to kill Mercutio, which led Tybalt to be slain by Romeo and Romeo to face banishment from Verona. Had the feud not made Tybalt hate Romeo so much, Romeo would never have gotten banished and Juliet would be able to see him more often. Juliet feels banishment is worse than Tybalt’s death as she states, “‘Tybalt is dead, and Romeo- banished.” / That “banished,” that one word “banished,” / Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Act 3, Scene 2, lines 112-114). Juliet has already deemed the banishment as the worst possible punishment. She says that Romeo being banished from Verona is equivalent to Tybalt dying ten thousand times. Juliet being already heartbroken by Romeo’s banishment plays a big role in why they both ended up dead. The entirety of Act Three shows how much Romeo and Juliet love each