What character traits of Romeo and Juliet may have led to their death?

Answer 1

• an overly passionate sense of love

• a tendency to act impulsively

• a capacity for feeling an emotions too deeply

Answer 2

The main trait leading to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are that of haste. The shakespearian play, Romeo and Juliet, takes place in 6 days and ends tragicly due to coincidences. haste and rashfull thinking lead the two to get married in secret, lead Romeo to slay Tybalt, lead Juliet to fake her death, ect. If the two lovers had stopped to think for a moment instead of pinning over each other their deaths could have been prevented. If they had thought to stop and think they may have simply asked their parents to allow them to marry and that would have been the end. As it seems that both Montagues and Capulets would have agreed to marry them.

Answer 3

He is terribly unlucky. OK, so that's not a character trait, but it is the chief reason for Romeo's death. You can't really call it a downfall, because he is not one of those neo-Aristotelian tragic heroes who starts out a king and ends up blind or dead. Romeo is just a rich kid, just as Othello is just a good soldier. Some tragic protagonists are not great kings. And not all tragedies happen because of the character of the tragic protagonist. The two things that Romeo did which contribute to his tragedy are to fight Tybalt and to ride from Mantua to Verona and kill himself. As for the first, Romeo's character is not belligerent. He is not involved in the brawl in Act 1. He is not invested in the feud; he goes after Capulet girls all the time (Rosaline was a Capulet remember). And faced with Tybalt who was trying to start a fight with him for no good reason, Romeo avoids the conflict. Romeo only fights Tybalt after becoming intensely emotional after Tybalt skewers his friend who then, while coughing up blood, blames Romeo for his death. Who wouldn't be in the grip of his emotions under these circumstances? To say that Romeo is has an impetuous character is ridiculous; if he had, he would have fought Tybalt in the first place. The same can be said about leaving Mantua for Verona. Romeo does not leave without first getting as much information as Balthazar can give him. Are you sure Juliet is really dead? Didn't the friar give you a message to take to me? And all the information he gets adds up to the same thing. What other conclusion could he come to? But he has terrible luck, because if the process of buying poison, riding to Verona, opening the crypt, fighting Paris and killing him, and dragging him into the tomb had taken two minutes longer than it did, Romeo would have arrived to find a bewildered Juliet ready to embrace him. That two minutes' difference cannot be attributed to some imagined character trait.