Romeo and Juliet
In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Laurence all make bad decisions. These hasty decisions include the fast marriage between Romeo and Juliet, the Friar’s plan to make Juliet look dead, and as a result Romeos quick decision to kill himself. The quick decisions made by Romeo, Juliet, and the Friar ultimately cause the lovers' deaths.
Not only did Romeo and Juliet make a bad decision to marry so quickly in Act III, but their marriage causes a lot of problems throughout the rest of the play. These problems include Romeo trying to defend Mercutio from Tybalt which ultimately causes Mercutio’s death, followed by Tybalt’s death, and Romeo’s banishment from Verona for killing Tybalt. Their deaths could have been avoided if Romeo and Juliet had left Verona after being wed. Before the marriage even begins the Friar warns Romeo “These violent delights have violent ends.”(2.6. 9) Friar Laurence’s warnings come true as the play continues and Juliet is betrothed to Paris. As the Friar continues to speak to Romeo he says
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“So smile the heavens upon this holy act that after-hours with sorrow chide us not.”(2.6.1-2) The Friar is wishing Romeo and Juliet’s good luck with their marriage, expressing a desire that nothing bad will happen between them, and hopes that their marriage will last a lifetime. After Friar Laurence hears about Juliet’s forced engagement to Paris, he comes up with a plan to make Juliet appear to be dead so she can avoid marrying Paris the next day.
However, the plan has many flaws that are pointed out by Juliet while in her bedroom before she drinks the potion she states, “How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo come to redeem me?”(4.3.30-32) Juliet worries that the potion may fail, that she may wake earlier than she is supposed to and that she will be locked alive in the crypt with her dead relatives including Tybalt. She also points out that the potion may be poisoned by saying “what if it be a poison which the Friar gave me.”(Act 4 Scene 3) She expresses her worries that the Friar may want her actually dead instead of putting her into a deathlike sleep. If she is dead then he wouldn’t be caught and shamed for the secret marriage that he was
arranging. Upon hearing about Juliet’s death from Balthasar, Romeo almost immediately goes and buys a potion of poison so that he may die alongside Juliet. Romeo talks about how money is the greatest poison of them all in Act 5 Scene 1 when buying the poison from an apothecary saying “There is thy gold-worse poison to men’s souls.”(5.1.80-81) Romeo is able to bribe the apothecary into giving him the potion even though it is illegal in the city. Before finding Juliet, Romeo foreshadows his own death. Romeo says “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead.”(5.16-7) His dream comes true after Romeo breaks into the crypt and drinks the poison. Juliet wakes to find Romeo dead on the ground within the crypt next to her. So she in turn kills herself with Romeo’s dagger In brief, Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Laurence's terrible decisions in an effort to control their own destinies have lasting consequences. Their poor decisions cause problem after problem and result in the death of both lovers in the end. From Romeo and Juliet’s fast marriage, Friar's plan to put Juliet into a deathlike sleep to hide his involvement in the secret marriage and Romeo and Juliet’s quick suicidal decision, bad decision are a common theme and ensue throughout the play.
His actual plan was to send Juliet with Romeo to Mantua after she regains her consciousness from the effect of the potion. He sent a letter to Romeo telling him about his plan but Romeo did not receive his letter. While telling about the plan Friar says, "Take thou this vial, being then in bed,/ And this distilled liquor drink thou off;/ When presently through all thy veins shall run/ A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse" (4.1.94-97). Because Friar gave Juliet the potion and was not able to tell the plan to Romeo, Romeo thought that Juliet was dead. Eventually, this misconception leads to both Romeo and Juliet's
In William Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence plays a major role. He makes not just one, but three fatal mistakes; he marries Romeo and Juliet, gives the potion to Juliet, and gets caught up in their love. Romeo and Juliet knew they could trust Friar Laurence because he was a priest, and he always did what was right. Since Friar Laurence was so quick to make decisions he made these three fatal mistakes, which is why he is most to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Unfortunately, their love comes to an end, along with their lives, because of a misunderstanding and a persistent feud between their families. Although there are many characters in this play that have contributed to Romeo and Juliet’s death, Friar Laurence is the person most to blame. Friar Laurence’s actions throughout the play resulted in the two star crossed lovers’ death. He assisted the two when they wanted to get married, which began the disastrous events in the play. Friar Laurence says to Romeo:
“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.
When Romeo and Juliet realize they can’t be together, and Juliet is expected to marry Paris, she needs an escape plan. Juliet pays a visit to the Friar, who creates a plan for Juliet to fake her death with a sleeping potion. When Juliet asks the Friar to help her break free from her wedding with Paris, he replies that: If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou has the strength of will to slay thyself; Then it is likely thou wilt undertake A thing like death to elude away this shame, That cop'st with death himself to scrape from it; And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy. IV i 71-76. Therefore, for the second time, the Friar acts unwisely and agrees to give Juliet this deadly potion.
...re her fake dead body is kept, and drinks the poison he brought with him, hastily, without giving it a second thought, assuming that Juliet was dead and that he might not be able to live without her. However, Juliet wakes up at the moment when Romeo falls dead on her lap and she exclaims, “Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end” (5.3.167), signifying the untimely death of Romeo that occurred due to his unnecessary haste.
The deaths of Romeo and Juliet occur because of the crucial mistakes that Friar Lawrence makes. Friar Lawrence mishandles the situation by marrying the young couple that should not have been together. In addition, he has Juliet take his homemade concoction which ultimately leads to Romeo's and Juliet's actual deaths. Finally, he has a quarantined friar try to deliver a letter to Romeo about a secret plan that had been created by Juliet and him. Even though Friar Lawrence has good intentions and was just trying to help Romeo and Juliet, he ends up creating a huge problem that kills the young couple and devastates their families with sadness. The consequences far outweigh the good intentions. But, sometimes the people who are thought to be knowledgeable and trustworthy may turn out to be irresponsible and poor decision makers.
Choices determine every outcome, A better way to put it is “What we do in life, echoes in eternity”, essentially every single decision one makes , no matter how minuscule, will always have an impact in one’s life. Fate isn’t real; Fate is a term commonly used by those that refuse to accept that they control their own future. Teenagers ever since the beginning of time were and still are expected to make poor choices due to their age. But once they learn to take responsibility for their actions they become adults. Both Romeo and Juliet make multiple decisions such as marrying, killing and suicide without stepping back and thinking about the consequences. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare all the choices made by the star crossed lovers have consequences. The two lovers blame fate for their misfortune. They refuse to believe that fate does not determine the end result, only they can do that.
Romeo decided, at the spur of the moment, that his only solution to deal with Juliet’s death was to kill himself. Romeo’s impulsiveness caused his preventable death, but he is not the only one who was impulsive and hasty in the play.
With all the conflict arising between Juliet’s family, Friar Lawrence creates a plan that unfortunately does not succeed. His plan for Juliet is to tell her father she will marry Paris, then go to bed with no one, not even the nurse. After, she will drink a potion to make her seem dead for forty two hours and then have a messenger tell Romeo about it. He will have her put in a vault to wait for Friar to bring her out so she and Romeo can elope. The plan was perfect until tragedy occurs, Benvolio sees Juliet dead and immediately tells Romeo about it.
Romeo was a Montague and Juliet was a Capulet, but they fell in love with each other, and both of their fathers do not like each other. Later on in the scene they get married secretly, not anybody knowing that they got married. But only two people know, there are some people in the book who picked decisions they made and really should not have made it, because of what has happened in the scenes. First person that had made a bad decision is Friar Laurence. When Romeo and Juliet wanted to get married, he was the one who married them both.
How does the teenage brain make decisions? In all honesty, everything is based off impulse. Teens have already developed the part of their brains responsible for immediate reactions. However, the part of the brain specializing in controlling reasoning and thinking before acting doesn’t develop until later, leaving the teen to do crazy, impulse decisions without the full ability to stop. In the story of Romeo and Juliet, both teens fall into a very quick love, lasting about 3 days. Several reasons can be attributed to the why it all ended so tragically. For instance, the never-ending feud played a big part, about 30%. Then there was their personalities, which includes impulsive decisions like what’s mentioned above, that made up the other 70%.
Once in a while many people make bad decisions. Usually these decisions don’t cause them any harm in their futures, unlike Romeo Montague’s and Juliet Capulet’s decisions. In Verona, a city in Italy, two lovers fall in love. The catch is their families despise each other. Eventually Romeo get’s banished from Verona, and Juliet is forced to marry someone she doesn’t want to marry. Juliet takes a potion that knocks her out for 42 hours, and feigns her death, hoping she does not have to marry Count Paris. Romeo assumes Juliet is dead, and drinks a potion that kills him, and when Juliet wakes up and realizes that Romeo is dead, she stabs herself. In William Shakespeare’s tragic play, Romeo and Juliet, the main protagonists, Romeo and Juliet, make poor choices which eventually lead to their death at the end of the story.
Benjamin Franklin advised, “Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste”. No story can convey Franklin’s message more distinctly than William Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet. The significant passion of love and history-induced loathing between the Capulets and Montagues compels Romeo and Juliet, as well as other characters, to make prompt decisions that should have been more thought out. Acting in haste can lead to disastrous consequences that cannot only impact the person making the decision, but can also affect many people at the same time; these consequences include complication of lives, further inappropriate decisions, broken hearts and lives destroyed. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare presents us with the idea that
Shakespeare writes an affectionate play, told of the love of Romeo and Juliet, that expeditiously grows into a tragedy: Anger glows red into hastily mistakes, choices are never our own, and patience is merely absent. This is what creates a dilemma between oneself, families and foes. The play “Romeo and Juliet”, told by Shakespeare, portrays a message to readers that being patient will lead to one's fate. However, thinking hastily will bring one to bad fate and unpredictable outcomes. This can be brought into my life with Romeo’s hasty decisions and Juliet’s fate to marry.