What Is The Role Of Suicide In Romeo And Juliet

Reflection Paper
“I’m sorry…” she wrote on a sticky note. The silence that surrounded her was interrupted by the loud sound of gunfire. That was the last of Claire Woods. Suicide is a very serious matter that has affected people of all backgrounds for a long period of time. In Webster's dictionary, the proper definition of suicide is: “The act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally, especially by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.” When victims reach a breaking point in their lives, they believe that there is no other option, that this difficult period in their lives isn’t going to end. So they tend to choose a very permanent solution that they believe will help solve the problem. That solution is suicide. In Romeo
No one will fully understand why they went through with the decision that they made, but the marital couple. When Romeo found out that Juliet was dead, there was an overwhelming feeling of depression that enclosed him, all he could think about was that he needed to be with her, he needed to be with his true love. That what was probably running through his mind when persuaded that apothecary to give him that vial of strong poison. Unknowingly Juliet was still alive and awoken and tried to kiss the poison off of Romeo’s lips, but failed then she resulted in stabbing herself. Juliet was, at the time most likely thinking, there would be no happiness in her life without her husband. Which shows how naive the marital couple was, Romeo had many options to prevent himself from the banishment that resulted to the miscommunication about Friar Lawrence's plan. One would be avoiding the confrontation with Tybalt. Juliet also could have chosen the option of telling her parents about her secret marriage to Romeo. The couple were very young and naive leading them to not know how to approach a challenging situation