In Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet the immaturity of the characters affected the outcome of the two Star Crossed Lovers because they make very irrational decisions and they weren’t at an old enough age to make the most mature actions either. While reading the play you could come across the deaths of the main characters as decisions not fate. One immature decision that influenced the death of Romeo and Juliet was the choice to keep the feud going between the Capulets and the Montegues.
Not until the end of the play did they decide to end the feud and come together and that was because children from both sides were dead. At the end Capulet said, “As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie, Poor sacrifices of our enmity” (V. III. 307-308).
When this was said you could tell that it had to come to the death of their children to finally end an immature feud. In the play it wasn’t just the immaturity of the feud that contributed to the outcome, Romeo and Juliet had a big part in it themselves.
When Juliet found out that Romeo was banished she was really upset and said, “But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed. Come, cords, come, Nurse, I’ll to my wedding bed, and death, not Romeo take my maidenhead” (III. II. 135-137).
In this quote you could configure that Juliet was saying that she was going to kill herself which is not a mature or stable decision by any means. Romeo made immature decisions and had just as much fault as Juliet. When Tybalt killed Mercutio in a very immature fight Romeo got very mad and decided to kill Tybalt.
The Essay on Who Is Ultimately Responsible for Romeo & Juliet’s Death and Why
Death is and always will be a hard topic to talk about, especially when someone is to blame. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, many characters could take responsibility for the deaths of the young lovers, but who is ultimately to blame? In my opinion, Romeo is the main cause of their deaths. He rushed into marriage without thinking ahead as to what they would do or ...
When Romeo finds Tybalt he says, Alive, in triumph, and Mercutio slain. Away to heaven respective lenity, And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now! Now Tybalt, take the ‘villain’ back again That late thou gav’st me, for Mercutio’s soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company. Either thou, or I, or both must go with him. (III. I. 118-125) By reading this quote from the play, you know that Romeo is thinking that the only way to solve this problem is for him, Tybalt, or both of them to die which isn’t true.
But, it was also immature for Tybalt to provoke the fight between himself and Romeo in the beginning. Throughout the play Juliet seems to believe that the only way to solve her problems is to kill herself. When the nurse tries to convince Juliet to marry Paris Juliet says, “If all else fail, myself have power to die” (III. V. 242), and if she would just tell her parents that she is already married she wouldn’t have to kill herself. Another resolution would have been to have the nurse help her to tell her parents because even the nurse wasn’t making the most mature decisions.
Nurse wanted to Juliet to marry Paris when she was already married to Romeo and wasn’t thinking about informing Capulet about it. Not just from the two main characters, but the nurse, Capulet, Lady Capulet, Montague, Mercutio, Tybalt, and Friar Lawrence’s immature actions all had a part in the outcome . Even though some actions weren’t meant to draw Romeo and Juliet to their choice to kill themselves, it was a group fault. In the play of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the cause of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet was based on pure immaturity.
