Should Romeo and Juliet have died in Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

1. Romeo and Juliet run away
2. The feud continues
3. Romeo and Juliet have 2 sons and a daughter
4. Romeo dies at 92 and Juliet at 89
5. The Kids have kids and Romeo and Juliet's sons continue on the Montague name

Answer 2

The play was written as a tragedy, because that is what Shakespeare wanted to get across. The audience knew this going in, so to speak, which is why the tragic ending is revealed in the prologue. Therefore it had to end on a sad note. The concept of happily resolved serious dramas or even dramas with ambiguous endings did exist in the days of Shakespeare - plays were not either Tragedies or Comedies without a middle ground. Compare this play with Troilus and Cressida, where the lovers are separated by misfortune but they do not die, and continue to live unhappily. Compare it also with a play like The Winter's Tale where Hermione and Leontes are reconciled after he becomes insanely jealous and attempts to have her killed. Here the story becomes very dark before resurfacing in a happy ending.

It is essentially about gangsters so would tend towards violence- as would a war movie. One way one could save the day would be to use the corny nightmare resolution where either Romeo (Tenente Del Mafia, right) wakes up in his room and finds the whole thing was a bad dream.

Other possible endings might have Friar Lawrence talk Juliet into becoming a nun instead of using the potion gimmick, might have the Friar arriving just in time to save Romeo from killing himself, or at least to hang around longer to keep Juliet from killing herself (she could become a nun at this point too), or possibly having the Friar go with Juliet to reveal to Capulet that she cannot be married to anyone since she is already married (although the next thing to happen might be for Capulet to send some heavies to Mantua), or for Juliet to borrow a suit of clothes from Peter, sneak out of the house and go to Mantua disguised as a man, or for the Friar to send her to Mantua disguised as a nun (there's that nun motif again).

If Juliet could get to Mantua, Friar Lawrence could report that she and Romeo are dead, which would make their parents reconcile so they could be happily discovered to have been alive all the time. (See All's Well That Ends Well and Much Ado About Nothing which both use this false report of death trope.)

Answer 3

Romeo&juliet would have been able to spend more time together and i guess they would have children and everything

Answer 4

They would have escaped to Mantua together and gotten married.

Answer 5

They could have never met. Of course it wouldn't be much of a story in that case.

Answer 6

no