Suicide: It's the gigantic green elephant in the room. You might as well talk about it.

The fundamental thing of the play is that the two main characters commit suicide. Due to miss communication and stupid choices both Romeo and Juliet kill themselves out of "undying love" at the end of the play. Their deaths should have been prevented but because of their immaturity and the problem with communications it ended badly. Neither character had to die. If Juliet truly loved Romeo she would have run away with him instead of staying behind. That would then result in no more dying. Or if Romeo had the common sense to check Juliet's body thoroughly he would have known she wasn’t actually dead, resulting in him not committing suicide. In act 5 scene 3 lines 75 to 120 not a single word shows that he checked her body. He simply looked at her and assumed because of what he had been told. If one is truly in love they would shake the person and try to wake them up purely because they do not want to believe what has happened to their love ones. But that doesn’t answer the fight he has with Paris, whom he kills. If Paris wasn't so thick headed and blinded by prejudices against the families no one who have got hurt or dies. All would have lived. There is so much unnecessary suicide in this play purely due to the lack of communication and common sense of the characters.