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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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
Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's first authentic tragedy. It is about two lovers who commit suicide when their feuding families prevent them from being together. The play has many characters, each with its own role in keeping the plot line. Some characters have very little to do with the plot; but some have the plot revolving around them. While the character of Friar Lawrence spends only a little time on stage, he is crucial to the development of the conclusion of the play. It is Friar Laurence’s good intentions, his willingness to take risks and his shortsightedness that lead to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
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 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.
The suicides of Romeo and Juliet reflect their hasty and impulsive decisions as well as the dishonesty of Friar Lawrence and the Nurse. Romeo’s haste in drinking the venomous poison, Friar’s cowardice in handling the consequences as well as the Nurse’s choice of standing against the relationship of Romeo and Juliet contribute equally to their fatal end. Therefore, dishonesty and haste can result in undesirable circumstances to any individual.
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%.
“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.
Throughout time, there have been many tragedies caused by romance. For example, the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is known for its romantic tragedy between two star-crossed lovers. With all the deaths, who is truly to blame for Romeo and Juliet's deaths? Friar Laurence is most to blame for many obvious, yet overlooked, reasons. The forbidden wedding of Romeo and Juliet could not have happened without the Friar.
The way a child thinks and behaves can be alluded by their age; in some cases it causes the child to make decisions on impulse, and can lead to a bad ending. In some circumstances, they can make irrational decisions as they are blinded by their desires. In addition, they can make reckless decisions to avenge someone, not knowing the consequences that follow; or make a choice before all the facts have been considered. Children can come to a quick decision when they believe that it’s the only one available to them. Furthermore, a child does not have the same mental capacity as an adult as they only think about themselves rather than everybody else. At the beginning of the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo is oblivious to his judgement because of his one true love, Juliet. Nevertheless, Juliet falls into the spell of love causing her to act irrationally to be one with Romeo. Moreover, other characters such as Friar Lawerence and Balthasar show evidence of impulsive behaviour indirectly provoking death. In the play, the love between the two protagonist, Romeo and Juliet causes
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:
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
Romeo and Juliet is a play where people make the wrong decisions at the wrong times. Written by William Shakespeare, the play follows the relationship between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two star-crossed lovers from rival families. They meet and instantly fall in love, and the next day they get married. However, Romeo’s exile after killing Juliet’s cousin and Lord Capulet’s arranged marriage of Juliet and Paris bring the couple apart. Both Romeo and Juliet prefer death to separation, and after a failed plan to have Juliet fake her death and run away with Romeo, the couple ends up killing themselves. The end could have been prevented many times throughout the play, but the characters kept on making blunders and not doing what they should
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.
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.
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.
In the course of the play, Romeo and Juliet immediately fall in love. Also, they know they are meant for each other and therefore decide to get married. After this marriage, there was a brief moment in time where everything was perfect. They are married, in love and there is nothing stopping them from being together. This however quickly changes after a fight that leads to death. Once Romeo is banished from Verona for the penalty of murder, love grows tremendously between the couple and drives the need to be together. The marriage between Romeo and Juliet is hidden from their parents, so Montague decides to arrange a marriage between her and Paris. 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 had seen Juliet dead and immediately tells Romeo about it. The result is Romeo and Juliet murdering themselves and the play had a tragic ending. Overall, young, innocent lovers die, through no fault of their own but a simple mistake. “How oft when men are at the