Romeo And Juliet Decisions

In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, these two protagonists were too blinded by others decisions and love to act with intelligence which ultimately leads to their deaths. These characters lived in a world where their love had to be kept secret or it would have been broken, which is why the characters looked to wiser peers for help. The deep feelings each lover had for one another was influenced by their family and three people who made destructive choices. Which leads the characters being most responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths are Friar Lawrence, County Paris, and Lord Capulet Friar Lawrence was supposed to be a wise man that made intelligent decisions, but from Romeo and Juliet’s experience, Friar Lawrence had no

Lord Capulet wanted his daughter married, but could have had a better plan. Every character knows marriage and love at a young age can lead to death and hardships in the future, but Capulet still wants to marry Juliet. So Capulet should be blamed, because he does not allow Juliet to have a say, makes a horrible decision, and enforces her marriage with Paris too quickly. For example, “Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday Or never after look me in the face. Speak not; reply not; do not answer me” (Act 3 Scene 5, 166-169). This means that Lord Capulet does not want the slightest disagreement of the marriage from his daughter and if she does not obey, does not want to ever look at her again. The reason why Juliet had to die was because Capulet rushed the marriage onto her and would take no back talk thus leading her to make a fast unintelligent

Romeo had fought Tybalt and killed him, which made the Prince exile him. This event had caused the letter about the Friar and Juliet’s plan harder to get to him, which would have saved Romeo and Juliet. For example, Romeo killing Tybalt made Friar John have to get out of the city to give the letter to Romeo (Act 5 Scene 2, Line 1- 20). If Romeo would have not been exiled, Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet could have went over the plans together and made everyone live through this