Who really killed Romeo and Juliet? In the play, Romeo and Juliet fall in love when Romeo secretly attends the Capulets' masquerade. Because the families of the two lovers are feuding, they aren't allowed to be together. Against their parents' wishes, they surreptitiously get married. But by the end of the play, they both end up dying in the name of their love. Although other people and events influenced Romeo and Juliet's predicament, in reality they were both responsible for their own deaths because they didn't consider alternate solutions to their problems and instead made the decision to end their lives.
An alternate solution to their forbidden love could have been to simply tell their parents that although the families were feuding, they had somehow fallen in love. In Juliet's soliloquy in Act II Scene II, she says that she doesn't care that Romeo is a Montague, and that he would be the same person if he had a different name. Despite the feud between her parents and his, she still wants and loves him and doesn't care that he's from the family she's supposed to hate. If Romeo and Juliet had just told their parents about their love in spite of the feud, then their deaths could have been avoided. Talking to their parents might have made the families realize that the two were really in love, …show more content…
Romeo was already banished after his fight with Tybalt, so they could have lived in the town in which Romeo was staying. This way, they would have been away from the feud and their parents' rules. Living together away from home, they would have had a chance to be a married couple and love each other without having to hide it. It would have been the easiest and the best solution to their problem. However, Juliet didn't consider this option. Instead she decided to pretend to kill herself, resulting in miscommunication and confusion for Romeo, who didn't know that his love wasn't actually
An alternate solution to their forbidden love could have been to simply tell their parents that although the families were feuding, they had somehow fallen in love. In Juliet's soliloquy in Act II Scene II, she says that she doesn't care that Romeo is a Montague, and that he would be the same person if he had a different name. Despite the feud between her parents and his, she still wants and loves him and doesn't care that he's from the family she's supposed to hate. If Romeo and Juliet had just told their parents about their love in spite of the feud, then their deaths could have been avoided. Talking to their parents might have made the families realize that the two were really in love, …show more content…
Romeo was already banished after his fight with Tybalt, so they could have lived in the town in which Romeo was staying. This way, they would have been away from the feud and their parents' rules. Living together away from home, they would have had a chance to be a married couple and love each other without having to hide it. It would have been the easiest and the best solution to their problem. However, Juliet didn't consider this option. Instead she decided to pretend to kill herself, resulting in miscommunication and confusion for Romeo, who didn't know that his love wasn't actually