Bad Decisions In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a beautiful story by William Shakespeare in which the reader observes the bold and rash character of Romeo. He falls in love at the first sight with his wife, Juliet. Their families have been feuding for generations; therefore, they make a plan to run away and live a life of joy. However, this plan falls through and many are killed throughout this dangerous journey including both lives of the lovers. Because he does not think before acting, Romeo is brought into dangerous and avoidable situations. His biggest flaw of being rash and rushing things affects himself and the people around him physically, mentally, and emotionally.

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.

They were focusing on trying to find the quickest way to sew together their torn emotions. Romeo was struggling to put back the pieces of his heart that were shattered by Rosaline, while Juliet was determined that the perfect man for her was not Paris. "...the period from roughly 15 to 25 brings peaks in all sorts of risky ventures and ugly outcomes,” (Dobbs). It is already common for teenagers to make cheap decisions, but it can become worse when strong emotions are added. Teenagers take plenty of risks due to their heart-felt decision making. When these damaged teens first met each other they were prone to making quick decisions, like falling for each other without thinking about the consequences

To begin with, teenagers, like Romeo and Juliet, don’t yet have a fully mature brain to make wise and reasonable decisions. In particular, the region of Romeo and Juliet’s brain that assists in making knowledgeable decisions, the prefrontal cortex, also recognized as the frontal lobes, are not completely connected until the mid 20’s. Dr. Adriana Galaván, a Director and Principal Investigator of the Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory, with an expertise in adolescent brain development, commented in her Ted Talk that “the prefrontal cortex is the part of your brain that helps you think of the consequences or potential consequences of your actions before you do them, it helps you regulate your behavior and your emotions”. Throughout the book, Romeo and Juliet have

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.

Romeo and Juliet definitely believed that they were ready for much more than they were capable of handling. Now knowing when teen’s minds actually are developed we can see why Juliet made so many poor mistakes. One example of a poor choice by Juliet was actually agreeing to go along with the plan that Friar Lawrence concocted. ( Act 4. Scene 3. Line 58.) Another piece of evidence of being blind to love is when she falls for a young man, Romeo, that she has known for like a short amount of time. ( Act 1. Scene 5. Line 108.) The fact that Romeo’s brain was underdeveloped could show us why he was drawn to such a younger girl. Juliet’s mother tells us that she is only 13 when they were discussing the idea of marriage.(Act 1.Scene 3. line 13.) Juliet’s poor choices and the under developement of the teen brain shows the reader why teen love is futile and

Life and joy left the bodies of two teenagers in love as they died on the cold stone floor of a tomb, looking at their loved one’s lifeless body. The blossoming love of two young and sanguine lovers turned dark and perilous as their undying love for each other lead to their untimely deaths. Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare is a story of two adolescents whose only ambition, to be together, was deterred by copious amounts of obstacles and setbacks. Their inextinguishable love was tested by opposing parents, feuding families, marriage proposals and morbid murders. While the adolescent brain and the brain in love are partially responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, Fate is mostly to blame.

First of all, Romeo and Juliet took a risk they risk were dangerous because their family could start a fight with each other for getting married. Romeo and Juliet took a risk by marrying each

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

“What’s meant to be will always find a way” (Trisha Yearwood). There is always a way to be with the person you love, Romeo and Juliet found that way. In the city of Verona there are two rival families, the Montagues and the Capulets. The children of each family end up meeting each other and falling in love. Over the course of the story the two make naive decisions so they can be together. In Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare uses character to reveal that adolescence can lead to making misguided decisions.

Somewhere in Verona Italy there is a young girl, Juliet, from the Capulet family and a boy, Romeo, from the Montague family. Both families have a fued with each other. Romeo was in love with this girl, Rosaline, and went to the capulet party where Rosaline was going to be. Romeo and Juliet both caused tragedies throughout the story by making poor decisions of being together and then getting married in secret. Romeo makes poor decisions by killing innocent people.

William Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet has been around for hundreds of years. Romeo and Juliet fall in love; when they find out they can’t be together, they have a hard choice to make. They both decided to end their lives at a young age. Romeo and Juliet’s decisions were what led to the tragic outcome; destiny didn’t play a part.

“The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, reveals that teens like Romeo and Juliet go through their own phases during life that many teens like them have. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, whose families are rivals end up falling in love, but many problems are pushed their way. Since teens value reward over risk they tend to make decisions that could potentially affect them in the long run. Many teens, like Romeo and Juliet, would prefer the to receive rewards despite the risks.

The characters of Romeo and Juliet's decisions were not thought through which led them to their untimely

In the article The Teenage Brain people talk about how the brain is not fully developed. “This physical difference in adolescent brain activity “shows that adolescence is a unique phase in development.” ” The reason is that the brain is not fully developed because it is still growing at this time. So sometimes teens make little but stupid decisions. This goes into the next part Romeo and Juliet.