Shakespeare helps to demonstrate how two lovers that believe the world is against them, they make decisions that will hurt them just to end up together. In Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2 by William Shakespeare it involves the story of two forbidden lovers and the path they take to just see each other. Within Romeo and Juliet these to lovers wanted to be together and they would do anything to see each other even if it went against everyone else’s wishes. These two lovers establish how people make decisions based on their emotions especially when they are in love they do things that can hurt them and so when they have the extra pressure of everyone against them they lose their rational thought process and proceed to do things that a rational
In a study released by the Mayo Clinic, they found that over 3 million people in the United States are alcoholics. Not only is drinking alcohol addictive, but it can lead to injuries and deaths. According to the CDC, in 2015, 10,265 people died from car crashes that were because of drivers being drunk on the road. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two lovers who come from rival families. After being secretly wedded they find themselves facing hard situations. Like driving under the influence of alcohol, emotions cause them to make decisions that lead to a deadly end. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the author reveals how love can manipulate the actions and decisions of people, characters like Mercutio, Romeo, and Juliet are examples of how
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.
Those who have viewed a tragic play may recognize that some characters, even with good intentions, can have inferior judgment and make unfortunate decisions. The characters of the Nurse and Friar Lawrence make such poor choices that eventually lead to devastating events. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the blame for Romeo and Juliet’s premature deaths falls on the Nurse and Friar Lawrence because of their immature decision making and flawed plans, supporting the theme that making decisions carelessly can lead to negative consequences. While the Nurse and Friar Lawrence both serve as parental figures in the lives of Romeo and Juliet, they fail to act responsibly and instead feed into and enable Romeo and Juliet’s fantasies. At the end of
William Shakespeare is one of the most well-known authors for his famous tragedies. He uses many techniques, like fate, that lead to these endings. However, in Romeo And Juliet, timing seems to be more of his approach. He makes plans so perfect that they must go wrong. Decisions seem to be made to ruin the time frame of the game.
Didn’t Elvis say it best when ever he said, “Wise men say only fools rush into love”. This idea is expressed throughout the world because so many mistakes are made whenever people rush into love. It seems as though love has a powerful hold on people and they just can’t help what they do once they are in love. It is as if they are almost blind to everything else around them, and also blind to the consequences that might come from their choices that they make. Teenagers seem to be more at risk for such frivolous love due to the fact they have lived such ephemeral lives. Since teen brains are not fully developed it can lead to fickle or poor decision making, and sometimes leads to making choices that result in teen pregnancy. Poor decision
Romeo and Juliet is a romantic drama play written by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet is about two characters that love each other, but have families that hate each other and forbid their love. The two love each other so much that they get married in secret. When Juliet is forced to marry Paris she goes to the Friar to get a fake death potion that will make her seem dead for a few days until Romeo gets a message from Friar John to come back and wake Juliet up. Friar John doesn’t get the note to Romeo so Romeo hears the bad news and kills himself.
Shakespeare wishes of his audience to understand something about the decisions people make when lovers believe the world is against them. The act 2 scene 2 excerpt from Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet includes the parts of the play where Romeo and Juliet speak on Capulet’s balcony. Shakespeare explains metaphorically that when people are in love and believe the world is against them, they make abysmal decisions. One way the author gives evidence to this is when Juliet goes on a massive monologue about her crush, Romeo, in which she asks him to renounce his family, renounces hers, and goes on about Romeo (2.2.3-46). When Juliet engages in this behavior, she loudly expresses her controversial and possibly dangerous opinions
What happens when people make decisions based on their emotions? In the tragic play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo marries a girl from his rival family which leads to both of them dying. The decision of Romeo killing Tybalt and buying the poison based on his emotions leads to him and Juliet dying. Romeo killed Tybalt because of his emotions. In Act 1 Scene 4, Tybalt sees Romeo at the party and is upset that he’s there and later on attends to the spot Benvolio
In 1597, Elizabethan poet and playwright William Shakespeare composed the famous tragedy Romeo and Juliet. While the story is representative of the trials of the period, it does not fully encompass the tribulations of women living in the set era. The story follows two star-crossed lovers born into battling families and unable to marry because of the feud. The pair ends up following their hearts, a decision that causes a butterfly effect of hardships that ends in an early demise. Shakespeare created a immortal classic with death, destruction and romance that examines the consequences of making personal choices in a society that depends on conformity.
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo”(Shakespeare 478). Take a moment to think about this question:Which has a greater impact on the characters in the text: destiny or person choices? In the The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe the characters personal decisions are what caused the greatest impact on them. Personal choices had a greater impact on the characters in these texts. The first reason why personal choices had a greater impact on the stories characters is because if they had never made these decisions then destiny would have not had to take place.
A boy and a girl had set eyes on each other for the first time just a few hours before, and now they had already fully committed to the marriage of each other. This occurred without the consent of each others family, without the knowledge of who each other are, and without the knowledge of each other’s inner personalities. These types of decisions are made consistently throughout the story by characters who don’t think about their actions and the consequences that they will have. In the play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses characterization in order to argue that many tragedies occur because of characters being too hasty with their decisions.
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. It is about two young kids from feuding families who fall in love and because of complications between the two families, end up killing themselves. Through the actions of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare enforces the theme of always thinking before making decisions related to passion. Shakespeare primarily shows this through the decisions made by Juliet. Juliet is impulsive and giddy with the thought of her first boyfriend.
Brennan, Ava English,1 Romeo and Juliet Essay Shakespeare’s famous play, Romeo and Juliet, is easily a perfect example of a tragic love story. With murder, forbidden love, and suicide all playing a role in the storyline, Shakespeare has little problem in showing the darker and gorier aspects of love. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses light and dark symbolisms to represent love and how paradoxical it is. When Romeo and Juliet first lay eyes on each other, it was immediately an impossible love. A romance destined to die except in the twisted fate of the lovers dying and not the emotions of love itself.
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.
William Shakespeare is widely known for all of his literary works; one of his most famous love tragedies being 'Romeo and Juliet'. A Shakespearean definition of tragedy exemplifies the sense that human beings are inevitably doomed through their own failures or errors, the ironic action of their virtues, or even through the nature of fate and destiny (Sayour, Susan, 2007). Romeo and Juliet is a tragic tale based on two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. Throughout the play, Shakespeare intentionally draws on text structures and language features in order to replicate the attitudes, values and beliefs of Elizabethan audiences and intertwine it into his