Banishment In Romeo And Juliet

Words: 1178
Pages: 5

When 9/11 occurred people all around, not only people who experienced it first hand, felt the need to do something with the impact of it lingering in their heads till they did something. This is the normal reaction.When the brain goes through a horrible event it first goes into shock but then has the need to rush into action. Medical science has learned a lot about our brains recently and how they react to trauma. We have recently learned that not only the people who were immediately affected by the event will show a certain response of needing to do something but also bystanders or witnesses. It is the brains instinct to want to do something because of the horrible thing that has happened. This reaction occurs in the brain due to 3 abnormal …show more content…
Throughout the play, not only did the two houses children die but also Tybalt, Paris, and Mercutio. These deaths might have been painful but when the tragic events are added together they gave the two families perspective on how much unnecessary suffering has occurred because of the feud. Romeo’s banishment seems horrible to not only him but his family and his love, Juliet. This horrible circumstance that they were put in leads Romeo and Juliet to take the extreme measures they did to be together even if that meant dead. The banishment was an effect of the feud and was one of the root cause of the two houses children taking the actions they did. When the Capulets and the Montague's are able to finally see that their feud was the cause they ultimately knew that it needed to come to an end. Everything in the play adding up on each other was what was needed to get through to the families about how much harm their senseless hatred was causing. These dreadful events are what finally gives the families this new and clear perspective. Capulet was even able to admit that the awful things that happened were “poor sacrifices of [their] enmity” (5.3.320). It was these painful moments that were crucial for the fued to finally be able to …show more content…
At the beginning of the play it started out with Romeo being in love and fascinated with Rosaline, not Juliet. A greater force made a messenger find Romeo and inform him of the party. If this hadn’t happened the two lovers never would have become in love with each, and the ending would have never occurred which lead to the feuds end. The Friar had tried to send a letter to Romeo informing of the plan, but “they [were] of infection”(5.2.16). The chances that there would be a plague infecting the town that the messenger needed to go through would have been a slim chance. If Romeo knew the plan they both would have been able to leave Verona and the families feud would have lasted and probably only become stronger. In scene 5 Romeo and Friar Lawrence both ended up coming, but they ended up missing each other by minutes. Them missing each other was a rare possibility but it did happen. Shakespeare could have done this to make it so they would end up dying and the families would be able to finally see they need to get over their feud. The greater force made the two characters miss each other by minutes even though they were both planning on going to the tomb. Even the character Friar Lawrence at the end of the play admits defeat to a greater force that “thwarted [his] intentions”(5.3.159). By