Essay Question

The most significant part of the play Romeo and Juliet was when the pair of star cossed lovers both committed suicide because they couldn't live without eachother because they loved eachother so much. This moment in the play is significant because this showed that Romeo and Juliet really and truly did love eachother and that they weren't going to let anything seperate them which is what makes this scene stand out from all of the others.

This scene is the final scene of the play so nothing can really change per say, but in this play, the emotion in this scene goes from being dramatic to just outright hearbreaking in the span of about a minute, not even. The fact that two kids would go the distance for love is truly a heartwrenching thought and that is what makes the scene so hearbreaking. There were evidence that this scene was coming, both Romeo and Juliet threatened to or suggested it as an idea, most notably Romeo, when he said "Thou cutt'st off my head with a golden axe and smils't upon the stroke that murders me", he was referring to the Prince when he said Romeo was exiled, he basically said that if he is exiled he is as good as dead which is what he will make himself to which the Friar replied "O unheavenly sin, O rude unthankfulness". This moment as a whole is so significant in this play because it encapsulates all of the things that have led up to this moment. It makes you think about what caused it while will make you realize the situations with their families were stressful, they couldn't be with eachother which must have been stressful as well. Also this scene makes you think back to the scenes where they threatened suicide, why wasn't this threat taken more seriously? Why didn't the Friar further investigate the situation? Well the answer to this question is because that killing yourself in this period was against religion and those who commited suicide were not entitled to a Christian burial because they took away "God's greatest gift" which is life. 

A lot of this scene was significant because it changed the whole feeling of the play. The play was dramatic and over the top and sometimes a little bit sad because of the struggle that they were in to be together but when the deaths happened it changed the perspective of the play at last minute from a weird, sarcastic, dramatic performance to a heartbreaking tragedy in a matter of minutes which I think was true genious by the playwrite. This scene made a personal connection with me because, not that I would actually kill myself for someone, I have had the feeling that I would, that I loved someone so much that I would actually die for them and take a bullet for them which I believe was the initial feeling of Romeo and Juliet but seemed to change in this scene.

In conclusion, this scene summed up the play perfectly because in many ways this scene was preditcable. This scene definitely proved that love and death do connect and this scene did show that Romeo and Juliet loved eachother. The moment is signigicant because this showed that they were not going to let anything seperate them, not even death.