'Romeo And Juliet, The Star Cross'd Lovers Are Doomed From The Start Not By Fate, But Their Own Personalities And People. Who Surround Them' Discuss?

These few ideas might help:

Romeo and Juliet are very young (she is only 14) and impulsive, as is shown by their eagerness to marry after one meeting. This same impulsiveness could be said to be the reason why the Friar's plan isn't carried out properly: Each one rushes to commit suicide on hearing or believing the other is dead - in both cases, if they had waited a little, they could have been saved. But I think Shakespeare makes this rashness seem like a natural quality of youth, rather than a special quality of Romeo and Juliet themselves.

They are definitely doomed by the people around them. In Shakespeare, love has to fit into society, and Romeo and Juliet's love has no chance of doing this. The Montagues and Capulets have been so poisoned by their feud that love has no chance to flourish; the lovers can only change/ heal their society by dying. Hope this helps.

I agree that their love was doomed because the friar had the idea to make her play dead and romeo thought she was dead and because of that he killed himself. Then juliet woke up seconds later and saw him laying their and so she stabbed herself and the feud between the families went away and they got along. They loved eachother but could not be together because their families hated each other so their love was doomed before it began