Romeo and Juliet essay, Topic: How far is haste responsible for the death of the teenagers

Eloise B Romeo and Juliet Essay In the play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, two only children from feuding families, fall desperately in love, and after a cruel sequence of events, take their own lives. There is no single cause for the tragic loss of teenagers Romeo and Juliet, but the haste displayed by some of the characters sets some immense things in motion. These cannot be undone, and so play a part …

…recess stabs herself. "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath, there rust, and let me die." (A5S3L174-175). Had Romeo not acted with such rapidity he would have lived, and so would have Juliet. Haste, and the consequences of its action, is more responsible for the tragic suicides of the teenagers than any other element of the play. Both teenagers die, whether by their own haste, or by that created by other characters.