Romeo And Juliet Flaws

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The tragedy, Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare's focus of the downfall of two star crossed lovers. An ongoing feud between the Capulets and Montagues has separated Verona in half. Romeo a Montague, and Juliet a Capulet are doomed by flaw from the start. With Verona being split in half and the two sides having a low tolerance for the other, it caused Romeo and Juliet hide their true love and act in secrecy which lead to a handful of their problems. In Romeo and Juliet, there are many flaws that led to Romeo and Juliet's downfall from a lack of communication between people and Romeo and Juliet acting on haste.
In Romeo and Juliet a leading flaw that lead to their downfall was a lack of communication between the characters. A major sense of lack of communication is between Juliet and her parents. Juliet has already married Romeo and has yet to tell anyone besides the nurse. This causes a problem when her father wants her to marry Paris but she can’t because she is with Romeo and she is afraid to say anything because he is a montague and her dad will disown her if he were to find out.
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Juliet feels as if this new found love that she has with Romeo might have been created on lust or looks and that as fast as this love came, it could be gone just as fast. As the story progresses Juliet continues to make decisions on impulse one of those being to end her life. As you reach the final scene of Romeo and Juliet we see that there plan did not go through as planned because of lack of communication which was mentioned before. When she wakes up from her potion that made her fall asleep and sees Romeo dead she decides to kill herself “Juliet's decision to kill herself because she is unable to be with her lover in life is quite a brash and thoughtless Decision” (Essay