In play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, young love and passion play the most important themes throughout the entire play, the elements were being discussed and questioned when the passion and love had form between Romeo and Juliet by each other’s first sight. The play become dramatic when the two lamentable star-crossed lover had to face their family feud and other obstacles in order to obtain the relationship, risking their own life to see each other, it become tragic when they kill themselves because of their intense love and passion had became unrequited; However, because of the suicidal impulse that both Romeo and Juliet exhibit is emotional, reckless, and not logical, it relate and support the theme of young love. Beside the conveying the theme of young love, Shakespeare does not seems to consider that self-destructive tendency inextricably connected with love. Romeo and Juliet committed suicide because they can’t live without their love one, toward the ending, the star-crossed lover actually have an another choice beside for killing themselves for many reasons.First of all, the theme of young love in the play, is that when a young person falls in love, love replaces all types of emotion and makes the persons neglects different types of rules. The suicidal impulse that both Romeo and Juliet exhibit relate to this theme in many ways. For example, Romeo indirectly exhibited a suicidal impulse after when Balthasar (Romeo’s servant) informed him that Juliet had died. He immediately went to an apothecary to buy an illegal and strong poison, a poison strong enough that “if you had the strength of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.” (Act V, scene 1, line 77-79) Romeo actually refers to the drink as a “cordial” (Act V, scene 1, line 85) saying that it is the poison is good for his heart. Juliet exhibited a suicidal impulse in right after she woke up, discovering that Romeo had just kill himself because of her. She said, “Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. What’s here? A cup, closed in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after?” (Act V, scene 2, line 160-170) Juliet was also blaming Romeo for not letting her to with him by not leaving any drop of poison, she try to kiss Romeo so she actually get some poison. According to both Romeo and Juliet’s suicidal impulse, they were acting reckless and emotional, relating that the young love is reckless, young people to neglect all types of rules because they fall in love.
Second according to Shakespeare, self-destructive tendency does inextricably connected with love for many reasons. One evidence to prove this statement is Friar Laurence’s speech depicting different types of love and predict Romeo and Juliet’s relationship in Act II, scene 6, line 9 to 16. Friar Laurence’s role in the play is to help Romeo and Juliet’s relationship going, he is a logical man. In the speech he states, “These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness. And in the taste confound the appetite. Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” Friar Laurence is depicting that Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is too fast, since the relationship is form in a violent situation, because their family is feuding with each other. The relationship is going to have a violent end. In the speech, Friar Laurence is only predicting the star-crossed lover’s relationship, he also include how a relationship can be long-lasting. Beside the Friar Laurence’s speech, Juliet’s personality growth is also another evidence that love does have a self-destructive tendency. In the beginning of the play, Juliet is only an 13-years old, innocent, obedient child. When Lady Capulet was requesting her to look Paris as future husband, she actually agree, and said, “I’ll look to like, if looking liking more; But no more deep will I end art mine eye than you consent gives strength to make it fly.” (Act I, scene 3, line 98 to 100) Meaning she will actually do that as long as Lady Capulet said yes. But when she madly fall in with Romeo, she actually say cannot marry Paris. But when her father refused, she became more determined to be with Romeo, and was willing to do anything. In Act IV, scene 4, line 25 to 58, show how determined she wish to with Romeo no matter what, she had become more independent. So the Juliet’s personality change is actually positive due the passion she has for Romeo. This means that Friar Laurence’s speech and Juliet’s personality change help to support that love does not has self-destructive tendency.
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Finally the reasons for Romeo and Juliet’s suicide, is that Juliet was planning to stay in a unconscious state of mind by the sleeping potion Friar Laurence had give to her. Then Friar Laurence will write a letter to Romeo about the plan, but Romeo didn’t receive the letter because of the plague. While accidentally hear the new for Balthasar that is Juliet is dead, so he kill himself with a potion at Juliet’s tomb, feeling that he can’t live without Juliet. When Juliet saw this, she stabbed herself with Romeo’s dagger, feeling the same as Romeo does; however, beside for killing themselves, they actually have another choice beside for killing themselves for many reasons. First of all, it was Romeo that doesn’t understand Juliet’s situation, he believed that Juliet was actually dead. Even though Juliet was not dead at all, she was just an unconscious state of mind, Romeo could just wait later for Friar Laurence’s letter to come in order to know what really had happened. And instead of he buy a such strong potion, he could just buy a weaker one. That way, he could just died later and Juliet and Friar Laurence will probably save him, and Juliet won’t kill her self. Also beside waiting for the letter, Romeo and Juliet could just tell their parent about they fall in love, so they should stop feuding. Their parent can be convinced, because according to the feud in Act I, the Montague and Capulet family was feuding because a small tiny thing. Showing that the family feud is really negotiable and stupid, but they just refuse to do that. They were acting emotionally because they fall in love. Which could prevent Romeo getting exiled, both of them trying to commit suicide because the time problem in the plan. This means that are lot more choices that Romeo and Juliet could have beside for just to commit suicide. Like telling the truth to the Montague and Capulet family.
Therefore, the suicidal impulse that Romeo and Juliet both exhibited relate to the theme of young love by showing that the impulse is reckless and emotional, and Shakespeare does not seems to suggest that a self-destructive tendency is extricably connect with love, and Romeo and Juliet both have another choices beside for committing suicide.
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