The Cause Of Romeo's Death In Romeo And Juliet

What would it be like to have six deaths in one town in less than a week? In the play Rome and Juliet by William Shakespeare one person caused the death of six people, his name is Romeo. In the beginning of the play Romeo is depressed about Rosaline, she is his love until the next night when he finds Juliet his new love. Romeo’s best friend Mercutio gets in a fight with Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt and he kills Mercutio. Romeo gets mad and fights Tybalt and ends up killing him and gets banished to Mantua. In result of Romeo getting banished Juliet has fake suicide so she will not have to marry Paris. That fails and both Romeo and Juliet and Paris all die. In the play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare portrays Romeo as responsible for the tragedies because of his impetuous personality; he acts quickly with no thought. Romeo is impetuous, and acts quickly without thinking when dating girls. He swears …show more content…
Romeo establishes that he doesn’t like Paris and killed him; “I’ll bury thee in a triumphant grave” (5.3.83). William Shakespeare expresses Romeos words with irony. Romeo uses the word triumphant to signify the depth of his emotion towards Paris. Romeo doesn’t like Paris and because of that anger, kills him. Romeo does not think about his actions and lets his emotion control him which leads in a lot of chaos. In addition the Prince punishes everyone for what had happened, “All are punished” (5.3.305) William Shakespeare shows a metaphor in Prince’s words. Prince is using the word “All” to convey that not just the Montagues and the Capulets are not hurt from the six deaths but he is hurt too. Prince is trying to show that through the actions of everyone in the play resulted in everyone being punished, loosing something important to them. For example Romeo lost Juliet and his best friend Mercutio. Through Romeo’s impetuous actions has resulted in the six deaths in the