Week 7 - Prevention of deaths
Friday, February 19, 2010 8:03 PM
As we come to the end of the story of 'Romeo and Juliet', we can see that the story ended in a tragic state. Beloved ones from each of the noble families died due to the conflict and hatred between each other.
The ones who suffered in a tragic death were Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Romeo, Juliet and Lady Montague.
Mainly, to prevent all these deaths from happening, the Montagues and Capulets should have tried to mantain peace with each other in the very beginning. Their hatred for each other may have been due to that their ancestors having an incident with each other which was then passed on to each generation.
However, if they have actually cared to understand each others' feelings by settling down to sort things out, they would have at the least understand each others' mindsets and thus, lowering the amount of hatred they have for each other.
In this story, every death was linked to the hatred between the two families.
Their servants fought with each other in the streets, causing chaos in the town.
Even in frequent fights, it could have caused a life as they fought vigorously using swords.
Mercutio died because he wanted to fight with Tybalt.Romeo tried to stop them and Tybalt accidentally stabbed Mercutio,which eventually led to his death.
Devastated, Romeo wanted to avenge Mercutio.So he went to look for Tybalt and killed him.
As he was caught,he was banish from the city.
This led to Lady Montague's death as she was too sad about Romeo's banishment
Paris wanted to marry Juliet.As Romeo love Juliet too, he fought with Paris for her hand in marriage.It resulted in Paris's death.
In order to escape from her wedding with Paris,Juliet drank a potion that made her look like she was dead.
Romeo did not know of the plan and thought she was really dead.
He wanted to kill himself by drinking poison.
While drinking poison, Juliet woke up.
But it was too late,the poison took effect and Romeo died.
Juliet cannot live without Romeo.So she killed herself with a dagger.
If they decided to live in peace and harmony,Romeo and Juliet could have been together and none of this deaths would have occur.
The nurse witnessed all these things that occured, she could have prevented this things from happening by helping Juliet and Romeo see each other and at least report those incidents to the Prince of Verona.