Immature people both make idiotic decisions, and make decisions based off of emotions without thinking through the consequences. Romeo and Juliet do both those things and more throughout the entirety of Romeo and Juliet. They make impulsive, idiotic decisions and base everything on a love that is based off of looks. Romeo and Juliet are not mature. In fact they are the very opposite of mature. The actions of both Romeo and Juliet are very idiotic throughout the entirety of the play. After an hour of knowing each other, Romeo, who is seventeen, and Juliet, who is thirteen, decide that the best thing for them to do is to get married the next day. Instead of waiting a while to get to know each other better, so they could know for sure that a …show more content…
An example of this was when Romeo discovered that Juliet had died. Romeo decided that he had to kill himself because a girl he knew for less than a week was dead. “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night. Let's see for means: O mischief, thou art swift To enter in the thoughts of desperate men ()!” Another example of this was when Romeo decided to try to get one last look at Juliet before he left. He snuck onto Capulet property, which could have easily gotten him killed, and proceeded to watch and listen to Juliet without even thinking about what could happen to him. Romeo made completely impulsive decisions without thinking about the …show more content…
While the plan may have worked if Romeo had actually gotten the letter from Friar John, Juliet did not take into account what her parents or others might have done after finding out that Juliet died. Her mother could have committed suicide as Romeo’s mother did, and Capulet could have accused the Montagues of poisoning Juliet, which would have started a war. Juliet did not take into account what others would do when they found her dead, she thought about what was best for her to get out of the situation she was in. That is not
An example of Romeo's impulsive behavior was when he chased Tybalt after Tybalt killed Mercutio, which resulted in Tibet's death. Romeo was horrified with what he had done, and expressed that he felt very irresponsible by crying out. "O, I am a fortune fool!" Some may say that Romeo's reactions were only out of love, but does that really make him any less to blame?... ...
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.”
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.
Hasty and rash decisions can dramatically alter the life of anyone in positive and negative ways; poorly thinking an action through and acting only on emotion can lead to egregious consequences. William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet’ shows us on an number of different occasions that hasty and rash decisions can have fatal and tragic consequences. Some instances when this is shown to be true is in the circumstance in which Tybalt is murdered by Romeo, Romeo and Romeo’s decision to commit suicide near the end of the play.
Life is filled with difficult situations and tough choices to make. The question is, should we choose to make them ourselves? Some people feel it's best to do things alone, while others do not. For example, most of the characters in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare that are analyzed in the text, “What’s the Rush?: Young Brains Cause Doomed Love” by Lexi Tucker, do not consider other’s opinions at all. However, the opinions of people who love us positively affect our choices so it would be smart to consider them in most cases, but not in those that are very personal.
The first impulsive behaviour from Romeo doesn’t take long to come. Romeo is talking with his cousin, Benvolio, to whether crash into the masquerade feast at the Capulet’s house. Even though Romeo is a bit hesitant at the beginning, thinking that is dangerous and inappropriate to get into the Capulet’s house with Benvolio and Mercutio as they are Montagues “And we mean well in going to this mask, / But ’tis no wit to go.” (Romeo), eventually he has a change of heart and ends up going. This clearly shows that Romeo being young and immature, can’t make right decisions and lets the spark of the moment take over him without clearly thinking the consequences of his actions. He even states that in a dream, he learned that going to the feast was a bad idea, which Shakespeare foreshadows Romeo’s dea...
Impetuous actions can dramatically alter the life of anybody in many ways. The lack of thinking things through and acting solely on one particular emotion can lead to unanticipated results. In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows how impetuous actions combined with the need for lust can lead to a tragic end. It wasn't fate but rather Romeo and Juliet's hasty actions that brought their untimely deaths.
Juliet is shown to be immature in a opening scene where her father tells the bride-seeking Paris his daughter is not old and grown-up enough to marry. "My child is yet a stranger in the world, she hath not seen the charge of fourteen years. . ." (Lines 8-9, Scene 2, Act 1). It is also shown during the balcony scene when she agrees to marry Romeo after knowing him only a day and she is not even sure herself that Romeo wants to marry her. "If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow. . . And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay, and follow thee my lord throughout the world" (Lines 142-143, 146-147, Scene 2, Act 2). After he marriage she is told by her nurse she is to marry Paris. In a blind fury she runs to Friar Lawrence with a knife to her body, thinking that her only option was to dye or hear a plan presented by Friar Lawrence to get her out of a second marriage. "If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, do thou but call my resolution wise, and with this knife I'll help it presently. . .'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife shall play umpire. . ." (Lines 53-55, 63-64, Scene 1, Act 4).
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.
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
In conclusion, in the play Romeo and Juliet both Romeo and Juliet make decisions that, because of their adolescents are quick and are not thought through which really affects their lives and those of the people close to them. In this day and age you see people who are making bad decisions, for example the use of drugs and underage drinking. The decision to do these things is most of the time done by people who are adolescents. These people dont think about the real consequences that it could have later in their live or event the damage that it does to their bodies right now. These people do it without
Firstly, Romeo and Juliet’s problematic marriage was a result of their impulsiveness. In Verona, the Capulet-Montague feud was infamous: even the servants loathed each other. Therefore, Romeo and Juliet knew of the consequences their marriage would entail since their families dislike each other. Yet, they still took that risk and got married. Afterwards, their secret marriage caused a big problem for Juliet. Lord Capulet was unaware of
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 and Juliet choose their own actions through their judgments, which were caused by their belief of everlasting love. Due to their unsound and absurd attitudes, both characters are dazed by love in a puerile manner. The relationship they created was actually built on lust and desperation. Firstly, Romeo is the first character whom shows immature love in the story as a whole. Once Capulet’s party is over, Romeo’s attitude leads him to jump over the wall to Juliet’s house and exclaim to her,” And what love can do, that dares love attempt./Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me”(2.2.68-9). The effect of love caused Romeo to not pay attention to the consequences of jumping over the wall and talking to the daughter of his enemy. The flaw is that he is beginning to think that his love is as hard as nails. It is illogical for Romeo to think this...
Romeo’s numerous rash decisions demonstrates his great impulsiveness. Romeo at first grieves over his unreciprocated love for Rosaline, but after he sees Juliet; he forgets about Rosaline entirely. His hastiness leads him to make decisions that are not intelligent or to his benefit. Shortly after meeting Juliet, he asks her to “exchange [her] faithful vow” for his ( 2.2.132). Romeo’s recklessness is evident that he does not think before he makes important decisions; prompting him to propose to Juliet just hours after their first meeting. Yet the morning before, Romeo was suffering from depression because he could never have his Rosaline. After what seems like a lifetime of loving Rosaline and promising to never love anyone but her, Romeo sees Juliet and instantaneously all his thoughts of Rosaline vanish. Romeo becomes infatuated with Juliet, with whom he exchanges less then fifty words before “falling in love.” The next morning he begs Friar L...