Rash Decisions: Even though the first lines of play tell the audience that fate is a key factor, the rash decision of romeo and Juliet certainly contribute to the play's tragic ending. Which rash decisions contributed the most to the play's tragic ending? Why? Is Shakespeare trying to say that young people can't make good decisions? Is he trying to say that those in love can't make good decisions? Or are romeo and Juliet’s decision just a few among many other bad decisions that led to the tragic end? How is the story more tragic because Romeo and Juliet's own action led to their deaths?
Thesis: The ending of Romeo and Juliet is worse because fate decided that there was nothing that Romeo and Juliet could do to escape their death.
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They felt that if one had died the other one could have no lived on because they couldn't live without each other. The fact that Romeo and Juliet were the reason they died is what made the tragic ending. The driving forces that of their death would be hiding the relationship, all the other deaths and their parents hating each other. “Then move not while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged”(1.5.118-119) When Romeo wants to kiss her right away and thinks that he likes her although they haven't even talked in person yet. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo thinks that right as he sees her that she's his and wants to kiss her yet he was just judging her by her looks and not her personality. “Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here” (2.3.73-74) Friar Lawrence is saying their vows to get married but they were so starcrossed they didn't realise it was too early. Perhaps they're death could have been cause by their rash decision of getting married. When Romeo and Juliet get married they think that it will bring both of the sides together although they were rash about it because they don’t know it will bring the sides together they just assume. “To turn your households rancor to pure love” (2.3.99-100) Romeo and Juliet decide that if they get married that it will bring both sides together although they have no idea that can even …show more content…
Romeo and Juliet met at the party and right away Romeo was trying to talk to her and when they kissed. But Romeo was in love with her that even though he could have known it was too early her decided to marry her anyway. “I Rosaline that thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies” (2.3.73-74) the friar was saying their vows but even he knew it was too early to get married. Not only was it a quick marriage but the both sides hated each other. They thought that it might bring both sides together although it led to death and other chain events before they even died. “Then have my lips the sin that they have took” (1.5.118) When he wants to kiss her right away but doesn't even really know if she has a boyfriend or not. Romeo sees her and immediately falls in love but then after he kisses her she becomes his all of a sudden. Romeo went from heartbroken to in love in the matter of like ten minutes. “I bear a poison, i would temper it”(3.5.109) Juliet is about to take the potion/poison but she wouldn’t have to take it if her and Romeo didn’t ever get
For example, after finding out that Romeo is a Montague, Juliet says, “My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me That I must love a loathed enemy” (I, v, 136-139). Juliet acted too fast and fell in love with someone that is an enemy of her family. When Juliet says, “Too early seen unknown, and known too late”, she means that she fell in love with Romeo without knowing who he was. The most logical conclusion we can draw from this is that their relationship was moving so quickly that Juliet had already kissed Romeo and fallen in love with him before even knowing his identity. Their choice of proceeding with their relationship so quickly is one of the reasons that led to Romeo and Juliet dying. Additionally, when Romeo and Juliet were talking to each other on the balcony by the orchard, Juliet asked, “What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?” (II, ii, 126), and Romeo responded, “The exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine” (II, ii, 127). The fact that after only kissing each other once, and talking for a brief amount of time, Romeo and Juliet want to get married, illustrates that their free will and decision making got them killed. Since their families are enemies, it was an obviously terrible choice for Romeo and Juliet to get married. The choice to get married this early in a relationship definitely played a big role in the tragic deaths of Romeo and
There are many forces in the tragic play of Romeo and Juliet that are keeping the two young, passionate lovers apart, all emanating from one main reason. In this essay I will discuss these as well as how love, in the end, may have been the cause that led to the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Their strong attraction to each other, which some call fate, determines where their forbidden love will take them.
Throughout the play, Romeo makes very hasty decisions, a number of that lead to unnecessary consequences. Heretofore, Romeo sneaks into the Capulet Ball with Benvolio and to cover their identity they each wore masks. Capulet allows them to enter the ball, not knowing they are from the Montague family, because he thinks it 'll be amusing for his guests,and because he remembers when he young doing similar things in pursuit of ladies. Benvolio wanted Romeo to go, therefore he could see that there were other women there who were even prettier than Rosaline, however this is where Romeo meets Juliet and quickly forgets about his initial true love whom he solely desired lust for and Romeo quickly changes his timeless love he felt with Rosaline to Juliet without any remorse. Romeo spontaneously decides he has fallen infatuated all over again, this reflects Romeo’s impulsive character. “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
In the beginning of the play Romeo is presented with a plethora of choices. The audience is introduced to Romeo as he sulks over his lover Rosaline. Mercutio, Romeos kingsmen invites Romeo to crash a Capulet party. Romeo at first passes on the offer but then decides to go. The choice to attend the party made way for so many negative things to happen. The choice to attend the Capulet party gave him the opportunity to meet Juliet but also create more bad blood with the rival family. Essentially Romeo doomed himself right from the start Many choices contributed to the end of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo's choice to go to the
The play shows that hasty and rash decisions can have fatal and tragic consequences for some characters in ‘Romeo and Juliet”
Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the two lovers make their own personal choices that impact both their lives in a very tragic way. While the readers are hoping that Romeo and Juliet will end up together, their impulsive behaviors lead to death. Juliet's impulsive behavior to fake her own death without clarification that Romeo had received the friar's letter caused Romeo to kill himself.
In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, two star-crossed lovers betrayed their own family in order to be with each other. Given that both Romeo and Juliet are both young, they made endless sacrifices and decisions just for them to be together without considering the consequences. All of their sacrifices resulted in vain as their tragic conclusion was their own death. Although fate played a significant role in the star-crossed lovers' downfall, Romeo and Juliet paid the consequences of their dreadful decisions due to their reckless rebellion which eventually led to their catastrophic ending. In the first few events that happened in the play, the readers have already seen some poor choices Romeo and Juliet made that eventually led to their death.
In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers lost their lives when hate and love collided. From the Montagues came Romeo and from the Capulets came Juliet. The two families were feuding and Romeo and Juliet could not stand being without each other. They both killed themselves because they thought life was not worth living without the other. Though there are many who can be blamed for this tragic ending, there are three that are the most responsible.
The choices Romeo and Juliet make are poor, and eventually resulted in their death. Getting married, killing Tybalt, and thinking with hastyness were all poor choices that lead to both of their deaths. Once in a while making bad choices doesn’t affect someone as much, but making then many times regularly does affect one’s life. This teaches people that we must think our actions through before committing them.
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare is a play about two lovers from different families that have an internal feud between them. It ends in both lovers, Romeo and Juliet, committing suicide as they could not openly live with each other. An important idea in this play is that of the impetuosity of youth and the rash decisions that young people may make. This idea is continuously brought up throughout the play and is explored through the concepts of overreacting and being blinded by anger, desperation in forbidden love and taking your life for love.
An example of Romeo’s rash decision is when he gets revenge and kills Tybalt. Romeo is in full anger and really is not thinking about what he is doing. He ends up defeating Tybalt, but his punishment is that he is banished from Verona and is forced to live in Mantua. Romeo now has to leave Juliet behind and live on his own. After Romeo kills Tybalt he says out loud, “O, I am fortune’s fool!” (3.1.130). Romeo realizes that he has made a huge mistake and that now he is going to have to pay the consequences. He flees the scene and later realizes that he is banished. It shows how Romeo’s unthoughtfulness has caused him trouble. Juliet also, makes a rash decision in begging the Friar to help her be with Romeo or she’ll kill herself. She doesn’t think about how she could think of a different plan instead of threatening to kill herself. Juliet tells the Friar that he must help her or else. Juliet tells the Friar, “ Tell me not, friar, that thou hearest of this, Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it/I long to die.” (4.1.51-67). This reveals that Juliet is “dying” if she doesn’t have Romeo with her. All Juliet needed to do was calm down and think of a plan by herself. Of course, the biggest rash decision was the decision to kill themselves. If Friar John would have went by himself and brought Romeo the message, they would have lived together in Mantua. Instead Balthasar
“For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” (5.3.309-310). Was this catastrophic ending the cause of fate or was it the consequences of their actions? Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, is where this tragic story occurs. Romeo and Juliet hastily getting married, Capulet forcing Juliet to marry Paris, and Romeo killing Tybalt all lead to a disastrous ending. It is hastiness and stubbornness that causes the demise of Romeo & Juliet; therefore, Shakespeare's play is a warning that impulsive actions lead to negative outcomes.
Star-crossed lovers, to a preventable dual suicide, this is the tragic tale of “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare. As the author of the play, Shakespeare deems it logical to blame their deaths on fate. Simply, to say Romeo and Juliet’s deaths were the stars’ fault; the story was always destined to end tragically is easy. However, Romeo and Juliet made their own decisions. They made their own choice to fall in love, just like they made other decisions which had consequences. While Shakespeare led the audience to believe that fate is the “dark force” that pulls Romeo and Juliet apart, it is their own choices that cause their deaths. Ultimately this shows that people cannot escape the consequences of their actions.
This hasty action resulted in not only his death, but also the death of his love(r) Juliet. Therefore, through reading William Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet, the audience learns an important lesson — that impulsive behaviour will have negative consequences as seen through Romeo’s actions starting with him crashing the Capulet’s party with his friends, to his killing of Tybalt, and finally his haste in killing himself to reunite with Juliet, with each action leading to a different consequence for not only Romeo, but also those around him.
Ultimately, Romeo and Juliet become embodiments of impulsiveness. Through their rash words and actions in the tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare sets forth that both are too hasty in their decisions, leading them into unfortunate events. As the plot unfolds, Romeo and Juliet’s futile love is torn apart by their family’s hate and animosity towards each other. Despite their constant struggle to let their love survive, it is doomed from the beginning of the tragedy. It is plain that lack of foresight and wisdom leads to disaster all around.