How Did Romeo And Juliet Make Decisions

In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet two star crossed lovers take their lives for each other because when making decisions they chose passion over reason. One big event that occurred because of irrational thinking was when Lord Capulet, Juliet Capulet’s father forced her into marrying Paris. This forced Juliet to go to Friar Lawrence and ask him for advice even though it was not very thought out Juliet went along with it. In the end, both Romeo and Juliet killed themselves. As a result of all their spontaneous, passionate and poorly thought out decisions the play ended in tragedy.

Lord Capulet chose passion over reason multiple times when making important decisions. The biggest one is when he decided that his daughter must marry Paris.

Juliet was so in love with Romeo that she did not think over Friar’s plan before agreeing. Juliet’s immediate reaction to the Friar was desperate, as she demanded, “Give me Give me! O tell me not of fear!” (IV.i.121). A more intelligent person would have thought over the plan and would have looked for flaws before blindly agreeing. After agreeing an demanding the potion Juliet realized that there were some parts that would scare her as Friar Lawrence said, but since she was so desperate and madly in love she did not back out. She knew that it was difficult she begged for love to “give me [her] strength, and strength shall help afford.” (IV.i.125). Juliet sees that she will be put into the underground tomb among other dead bodies and potentially venomous snakes. A reasonable choice would have been to either back out or come up with a better plan. Since Friar Lawrence and Juliet did not recognize what they were getting into, they added to the problem rather than solving

They were overwhelmed, reacted too fast and killed themselves. When Romeo first saw Juliet he was astonished, as anyone would be but he started rambling on about how much he loved her and if it was his fault. He was so flustered that when he saw the poison on the ground, he drank it without even thinking. Romeo was dying and he leaned in to Juliet “Thus with a kiss I die.” (V.iii.120). Anyone in that state would be bewildered but, they would probably have the common sense to see that you can’t bring someone back to life and killing yourself is not the answer because then you could no longer live either. Romeo was also already banished so it would not affect him as much as he would think. He most likely would be heartbroken for a while, but he would eventually get over it as he did for Rosalind. Juliet also made the same decision. When she woke up and saw Romeo dead, she became dazed and confused. When she saw the poison Romeo took on the ground, then, tried to drink some too but there was nothing left. Juliet then found Romeo’s dagger and knew what she wanted to do. She grabbed the dagger “O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” (V.iii.168-169). Knowing that now Romeo is dead and she can marry Paris without undoing their vows or feeling guilty it was the wrong choice to kill herself. Also her family cared about