Self-Destruction In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is considered a tragic story of love between adolescents. They claim to know what love is but the actions they display throughout the play show that what they share is nothing more than a fascination with each other and the unknown. From the minute the two young lovers met, they become captivated with each other. Their need for each other mattered more to them than the lives of their friends and families. Romeo and Juliet both become obsessed with the idea of true love and quickly became convinced that they had found it with each other. The two of them disregarded everything they had known and been taught their whole lives in order to be together. In the end of the play Romeo and Juliet proved that what they shared was nothing …show more content…
Romeo and Juliet both had their lives decided for them from the day they were born. They were essentially pawns in a game. It was predetermined what groups of people they were to associate with and in Juliet’s case who she was to marry. Paris had been chosen for her by her father and it was her duty to marry him and have his children. Romeo had more freedom, but still his parents had a say in his life. These restrictions caused them both lack understanding of the real world. They did not really understand the consequences of exactly what they were doing. This made their deaths that much more tragic, they did not only die because they couldn’t be together, they died because they had no chance to be who they really were. They couldn 't accept not being able to live their own lives. They threw everything that they had away in order to be together. Their deaths represent being trapped. Some people feel that there is no other way out besides death. They never would have thought that their first glance would cause so much death and despair to all the people around them. There were so many repercussions to their love, but they were both to blinded by adolescent love to see …show more content…
Their double suicide had to do with so much more than just their love. It had to do with a collection of all the elements through their lives that they had no control over like most suicides do. The act of it was for love, but it had to do with what they both wanted and what they both could not have. The deaths of the two demonstrates that young love isn’t going to work out most of the time. Overall, when young love is at its best it makes one feel as though they are on top of the world, but when it starts to fail or has to face what seems extremely difficult choices, it quickly lead to irrationally and to the desperate choices made to have what they so desperately lack and