Causes Of Suicide In Romeo And Juliet

Why Did Romeo and Juliet Commit Suicide?

“For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo” (Shakespeare 1993). These were the famous words that the great playwright William Shakespeare, decided to use to bring, arguably, his most well-known play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, to a close. But, it may not be the epic love story that most people make it out to be. In fact, most of the choices that Romeo and Juliet made in the story were irrational. Romeo and Juliet definitly committed suicide because of teenage rationale.
Romeo Montague committed suicide because he thought that he could not live without Juliet Capulet. In a teenager’s rationale, their first love will be their only love. “O, tell me, Friar, tell me, in …show more content…
An example of her having the rationale of a teenager is when she says, “Wash they his wounds with tears? Mine shall be spen when theirs are dry, for Romeo’s banishment. Take up those cords. —Poor ropes, you are beguiled, both you and I, for Romeo is exiled. He made you for a highway to my bed, but I, a maid, die maiden-widowèd. Come, cords. —Come, Nurse. I’ll to my wedding bed. And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead” (Shakespeare 2006, 1055). This quote defends my claim of teenage rationale because Juliet is acting like a spoiled brat. She is basically saying, "Fine! If Romeo isn't coming back then I'll just go and kill myself!" This affects Juliet because she is threatening to kill herself if she doesn't get to see Romeo again. So far in this scene the nurse has told Juliet what has happened and Juliet is upset about not getting to see Romeo again. This scene could lead Juliet to commit suicide because she learns that she can't be with her Romeo and she starts not to think like someone older than she is, instead she acts like someone younger than her. She is clearly upset because she is in love with Romeo and thinks that dying would be better than being away from Romeo. Another reason as to why teenage rationale being the reason that Juliet committed suicide, is in Act 4 she says, “Farewell!—God knows when we shall meet …show more content…
I’ll call them back again to comfort me.— Nurse!—What should she do here? My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Come, vial. (holds out the vial) What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then tomorrow morning? No, no. This shall forbid it. Lie thou there. (lays her knife down) What if it be a poison, which the friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead, lest in this marriage he should be dishonored because he married me before to Romeo? I fear it is. And yet, methinks, it should not, for he hath still been tried a holy man. How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo come to redeem me? There’s a fearful point. Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault to whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, and there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? Or, if I live, is it not very like the horrible conceit of death and night, together with the terror of the place— as in a vault, an ancient receptacle, where for these many hundred years the bones of all my buried ancestors are packed; where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, at some hours in the night spirits resort—? Alack, alack, is it not like that I, so early waking, what with loathsome smells, and shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, that living mortals, hearing them, run mad—? Oh, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,

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