The commitment of suicide is a very prevalent topic in the story, with the two main characters threatening to do so at any minor inconvenience. Towards the end, either character makes it clear that to live without the other is a fate worse than death and that it is inevitable that if not a happy ending, death will suffice. Expanding on that, when Romeo saw Juliet in the cemetery, he did not perform any analysis of her body- he didn’t even check if her heart was still beating. It could be argued that the heat of the moment led him to prepare for the worst, but denial comes much before acceptance in situations of grieving. I believe that this takes a part in the outcome paired along with the previous point because their love must have been truly to die for if that was how it was destined to
The commitment of suicide is a very prevalent topic in the story, with the two main characters threatening to do so at any minor inconvenience. Towards the end, either character makes it clear that to live without the other is a fate worse than death and that it is inevitable that if not a happy ending, death will suffice. Expanding on that, when Romeo saw Juliet in the cemetery, he did not perform any analysis of her body- he didn’t even check if her heart was still beating. It could be argued that the heat of the moment led him to prepare for the worst, but denial comes much before acceptance in situations of grieving. I believe that this takes a part in the outcome paired along with the previous point because their love must have been truly to die for if that was how it was destined to