Romeo And Juliet: Overview Essay, Research Paper

Romeo and Juliet: Overview

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star crossed lovers

take their life.” Romeo and Juliet’s death was a result of many misfortunes, but

they were mostly victims of the society in which they live, malignant fate, and

there own passions.

Romeo and Juliet are members of two families that are each others two biggest

enemies, there both rich families and with that comes expectations that you are

expected to live up to. If something was done incorrectly or a wrongful action

was taken, the consequences for that action might be different from a person who

was not as rich, because people look up to the Capulet’s and the Montague’s and

will more likely follow them, and want to be like them more then a poorer person.

Therefore Romeo and Juliet are influenced by this and marriage with a member of

the enemy could result in being looked down upon in your family, cause even more

anarchy between the two families or possibly banishment from your house. They

are victims of this because if their families did know of this marriage, they

would have had no reason to cover up or hide anything, and there would have

possibly been peace between the two families.

Evil fate played a major role in the lives of Romeo and Juliet because of all

the things that could have happened differently, the events that transpired just

didn’t flow in their direction. A few of the malignant fate situations were the

servant asking Romeo to read the invitation list and inviting them to the party

where the star-crossed lovers meet and fall in love, they are discovered by

Tybalt and he is furious, he consults Lord Capulet, but he says let them stay.

Later, Tybalt decides to take matters into his own hands and picks a fight with

Romeo, but Romeo backs down and Mercutio steps up to fight Tybalt. They fight

and Tybalt kills Mercutio, this results in Romeo losing his temper. Avenging

Mercutio, Romeo slays Tybalt and is banished from Verona, he hides in Mantua and

receives word that Juliet is dead. In turn another act of fate transpires, where

Friar John cannot deliver the letter from Friar Lawrence to Romeo which says

that Juliet is not really dead. So Romeo thinks Juliet is really dead and

returns to Verona to kill himself. He succeeds and Juliet wakes up and finds her

lover dead beside her and she kills herself as well. So fate plays a major role

in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet’s passions for one another also plays a role in their deaths

because they fell madly in love right away and needed to get married. They also

needed to be together as well, so Juliet needed to get out of the marriage with

Paris, so she takes the Friars drug and it all results in them killing

themselves. Another part of their love is that they would die for one another,

this results in that actually happening.

In conclusion, Romeo and Juliet are star-crossed lovers, who had many events

transpire, which were not in their favour, but are the victims of their society,

there own passions and malignant fate which just didn’t seem to travel in their

direction.