The side characters in the story give life to Romeo and Juliet, and that the side characters determine the fate for Romeo and Juliet. “I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire, the day is hot, the …show more content…
In the story, we see more of how the side characters are affected than Romeo and Juliet. The nurse in the story tries to comfort Juliet and Romeo many times, but they still both refuse (3.5.223-245). Romeo and Juliet are flat characters throughout the whole story, as they have only found suicide as a way out to a situation. Romeo becomes a little more violent killing those who stand abrupt in his way such as Paris. In the end of the story they kill themselves for each other when they knew from the beginning that marrying would be a legitimately bad idea. Although, they display their love in the balcony scene the side characters caused it to happen and gave Romeo chance to be with