Bad Decisions In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we meet the characters and how their actions led to a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet met, end up falling in love, and – since both cannot dream of living without the other – take their lives. While the play ends in a tragic death for both characters, it was their own reckless decisions; though others might believe that it was destiny that played a large role in the lovers’ downfall. However, the majority of the text evidence points to them making their own choices leading to their demise.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. Both Romeo and Juliet are young and sprightly teenagers, Romeo being 15-16 and Juliet with the age of 13. They are teens that make impulsive decisions without thinking about the consequences. David Dobbs the author of the article “Beautiful Brains” explains why teenagers act the way they do throughout scientific research and studies. This article helps to understand Romeos and Juliets actions which led to their deaths.

Rushing and taking impulsive actions can be goo sometimes, but mostly can lead to a downfall. I Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, readers enter he city of Verona and observe two lover struggle to keep there love alive. In William Shakespeare’s Rome and Juliet, the lover’s own decisions to rush marriage, family member deaths, and dying for each other revel how impulsive choices lead to their untimely death.

Destiny, something we determine or is your fate already set in stone? Pity and tragedy words used to describe William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet for hundreds of years. The play was tragic in the end, but Romeo and Juliet's last breaths were the cause of their own irrational decisions.

Romeo led several people to their defeat because of the irrational choices that he made. He speaks boldly, but when he comes to action, he behaves like a coward. When he was challenged by Tybalt, the Prince of Cats, he refused to fight, therefore ending his best friend’s life, Mercutio. His quick actions overcome his words and the situation mostly concludes with failure. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo made a rash and desperate decision to fall into love with Juliet resulting in death and sorrow.

Romeo and Juliet is a play about two star-crossed teenage lovers. They are from opposing families; Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. They meet at a party at the home of the Capulet’s and fall in love at first sight. That night Romeo comes to Juliet’s balcony and he watches her for awhile. Finally, he calls out to her, and they talk, him on the ground her in her balcony. After talking they decide to get married. Romeo rushes off to make the arrangement for their wedding. Only days after the wedding Romeo is banished from Verona for the murder of Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, and only days after that Romeo and Juliet take their own lives. Romeo did first believing Juliet had died, however, she was only in a death-like sleep. She woke up and saw her beloved Romeo dead and stabbed herself with his dagger. Although they chose to take their own lives I believe Romeo’s friend Mercutio is most to blame for the two lovers deaths.

In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers take their lives after their family feud reignites . A variety of decisions along with circumstance no one person could account for set the story of Romeo and Juliet up to be a tragedy. Many of the decisions in the play are made quickly and while emotions are running high, so frequently they result in bad outcomes. So, the rash and impulsive decisions made by men in Romeo and Juliet create the problems within the play.

Romeo and Juliet killed themselves, but how did it happen? Was it destiny or their own actions? A lot of it was them trying to hide, but Romeo got in trouble, so it was by their own individual choice that they died. Romeo had made some wrong decisions. First one was going too quickly with Juliet as he met her on Sunday and is marrying her on Monday as Juliet said “of love be honorable thy purpose marriage” and Romeo replied “by the hour of nine”(Shakespeare page 40-42) this evidence explains that they married one day after as they are speaking at night on the day before.

Decisions Based on Emotions Lead to Negative Events Each day, people make decisions, both good and bad. Good decisions are based on logical reasons; such as survival, well being, and people’s own self-interests, while bad decisions are based on something other then those things, such as emotions. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the characters exemplify the latter, meaning that they base their decisions in emotions instead of logical reasoning. In both books, bad decisions are made based on emotions, leading to bad consequences and ultimately, death. Decisions based on emotions rather than logic always lead to bad consequences.

In the beginning of the play, Romeo is madly in love with a girl named Rosaline. His heart is longing for her and he can’t seem to do anything without thinking about Rosaline. He’s very depressed about it, so Mercutio and Benvolio, Romeo’s friend and cousin, take him to crash the Capulets party. Romeo tells them that he isn’t going to dance at the party because he is still hurting for Rosaline.

In William Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet”, a tragedy, two young star-crossed lovers marry and set in stone, a course of bad decisions, which leads to their untimely death. Romeo a Montague and Juliet a Capulet are part of two feuding families, who against their parents wishes marry and with their death, end their parents feud. Throughout the play these two teenagers make irrational decisions leading to their death, which can be explained through scientific data collected by studies on teenage brains and sleep deprivation. Teenage brains are underdeveloped until the age of 25 causing teenagers to act without thinking and lack of sleep leads to teenagers reacting negatively to news. Romeos irrational actions of killing Tybalt and

Moreover, Romeo through his infatuation with Rosaline learned valuable lessons that help him come to appreciate and understand the feelings he experiences with Juliet. Romeo felt rejection, sorrow, and misery from his infatuation with Rosaline which is seen when he is talking to Benvolio, “In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman” this particular quote shows the sadness or sorrow he feels from the feelings for Rosaline (1.1.201). Also when he says “She hath forsworn to love”, the words Romeo speaks allow it to be inferred that his feelings for her have been rejected (1.1.220). “At the opening of the play [Romeo] is maundering about like an erotic woman novelist, sighing and groaning because Rosaline will not listen to his tenders of affection” revealing that Romeo’s love was rejected and was upset because of this, allowing him to learn these feelings and what it is like to be rejected by the one he had feelings for (Northwood 19). Due to having felt these emotions from his infatuation, when he finds his love for Juliet and receives love and acceptance from her. Since he went so long, feeling sorrow and rejection when he finally finds Juliet, he can fully appreciate the love and acceptance he is given which intensifies his love for her and does the opposite of weakening the credibility of his love. Through his infatuation with Rosaline, he was able to grow as a person and become able to fully commit to his love for Juliet.

Shakespeare does this by noting how Romeo and Juliet do not actually love each other. This is represented by Romeo and Juliets actions and rash decision making. Their decisions are very impulsive and rushed. As a result, it impacted them negatively in the future and as well as their relationship. Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other is not actually how love really is. They’ve mistakenly confused lust for love.

Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare that tells a tragic tale of “star crossed lovers” doomed to die. The tragic end of the play is the result of the irresponsible actions and selfishness ok key characters in the play, the Nurse and the Friar. Another person in the play but isn’t responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet was Mercutio, but his actions were rash and premature.

In Romeo and Juliet and in life, hasty decisions can heavily affect the outcome of the story and your life. In William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, hasty decisions heavily affect the tragic outcome of the play. One of Shakespeare's most famous plays, Romeo and Juliet is a play about two star-crossed lovers who will go through anything to be with each other. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare reveals how hasty decisions can lead to catastrophe through events such as Romeo’s exile, Tybalt’s death, and the two star-crossed lover’s death.