Romeo and Juliet is a play based on love, fate, and tragedy. Like most stories, the major characters play an important role, such as the decisions in which make. Yet, the minor characters also have a good deal of influence over the final outcome of Romeo and Juliet. The first minor character to be mentioned is Tyblat. He was an enemy of Romeo, and had he not been killed, Romeo would have never been banished. …showed first 75 words of 369 total…

…showed last 75 words of 369 total…have been delayed, giving Friar Laurence time to tell him the truth. The examples above are only opinions on what might or might not have happened, but it does explain the role that the minor characters hade in shaping the destiny of Romeo and Juliet. Perhaps their deaths could not be prevented. One thing is known for sure, there has never been a “story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo”(5.3.320-321).