Longer Essay : Why did this tragedy happen?

2. Romeo and Juliet's tragedy, I think, was a result of circumstance and strong personalities.

Firstly, on the basis, there was a great grudge between Romeo's Montague family and Juliet's Capulet family. They have hated each other for a long time and that hatred was really serious that the two families even killed each other. In the circumstance, it is pretty obvious that Romeo and Juliet's romance will never flow smoothly. Even in the beginning of their pure crush, they had to worry about their future. "Is she a Capulet? O dear account! My life is my foe's debt" said by Romeo (Act 1 Scene 5 Line 131) and "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!" said by Juliet (Act 1 Scene 5 line 152) clearly show that they had a huge problem before they started to love each other; it was a family-family conflict. Also as teenagers, they could not simply neglect what their parents said, so the problem might be felt bigger for them. However, they began their brave and reckless journey despite the fact that is mentioned above.

After since they started to love each other and got married, one big problem appeared. Romeo killed Tybalt who was a cousin of Juliet. It was totally unexpected for both Romeo and Juliet. "O, I am Fortune's fool!" (Act 3 Scene 1 Line 142) said by Romeo shows that he actually did not mean to necessarily kill him and so forth his very naive personality as he failed to control his emotion. For punishment, he got banishment to Mantua. The news sounded worse than the death of Romeo to Juliet, and then making the matter worse, Juliet's parents forced Juliet to marry Paris when Romeo was in banishment. Juliet said to Lady Capulet that "Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies"(Act 3 Scene 5 Line 212). She really did not want to marry Paris that she would rather choose to die. Her mind was set to Romeo, and she was obstinate about it. Then, poor Juliet talked with Friar Lawrence to resolve this problem.

The period of this tragedy dotted after Juliet decided to follow Friar Lawrence's plan. It was very uncertain and risky, but under the circumstance, she had no other choice but to take the risk. Friar Lawrence's plan to resolve the problem was to make Juliet be fake-dead to avoid the wedding and send a letter on which the plan was written down to Romeo to take her and run away. However, unfortunately the letter did not reach to Romeo, so the plan failed. What is worse is that I don't this tragedy could have been prevented. They were too young and weak, and the circumstance they had did not give any other choice that they could choose.

There was too harsh circumstance for them to overcome. Also there were also their naive and immature personalities. These factors led to the inevitable tragedy of two beautiful young lovers.