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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.
As a result, this instills an orthodox feeling when Sean opens up about his past experiences. With this in mind, Will feels uneasy about what is to come. Sean uses pathos to make Will feel guilty about his actions, and how ignorant his claims are about the world. “And you wouldn't know what it’s like to be her angel and to have that love for her to be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer. You wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the term visiting hours don't apply to you” (Damon). As he describes the way love feels, the horrors of war, and what true loss really means, it becomes unimaginable and heartbreaking to hear what it is like. Will had never felt this way
“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.
For ages 10-24, suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death throughout the world. Most people commit suicide due to bullying, abuse, rape, negligence, put-down, and/or other various negative situations. However, not many suicide cases occur due to loving someone for four days, and then killing his/herself when their “lover” dies. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, that is the exact reason the couple took their own lives. Although it may seem like a strange case, they believed it was true, young love. However, young love drove them to commit suicide, thus young love is it’s own self-destruction. The suicidal impulses that Romeo and Juliet experience do relate to young love, which shows how young love typically ends in self destructions.
Brent, a suicidal killer, is on the journey of his life to pay tribute to the victim's family. In Whirligig by Paul Fleischman, Brent Bishop is an adolescent who has traveled and moved many times, even so much that he knows the way to “fit in” all down to the choice of which ear the earring is placed. But when a socially important party goes astray, he becomes a killer of teenage Lea Zimora of Chicago. He is faced with multiple consequences when he accepts a journey to pay tribute to Lea and her family by making whirligigs and placing them at the four corners of the USA. Brent gains many new experiences and it opens his eyes up to multiple different things, however the reader is faced with a large, prominent question: How has the journey affected Brent’s past, present, and future life? Because of Brent’s suicidal actions, he has been faced with positive consequences, negative consequences, and consequences that severely change his life forever.
The character Maude, in the movie Harold and Maude, lives a life congruent with the ideas Alan Watts expresses in The Book On The Taboo About Knowing Who You Are. In his book, Watts explores the relationships between life, death, ego, and environment. Watts's purpose is not to lecture but rather to let the book serve as a "point of departure" (11) for its readers. Maude also serves as the "point of departure" for the character Harold. Under Maude's guidance, Harold transforms from a depressed teenager obsessed with death into a new, positive person. Maude, however, dies shortly thereafter because she cannot guide Harold for the rest of his life. Indeed she, like The Book, is merely "a temporary medicine...not a perpetual point of reference [for Harold]" (11). Both Maude and The Book are only starting places from which Harold and Watts's readers must learn to achieve peace and understanding within themselves.
In the last pages, the reader learns that Briony is the author of Atonement. Briony chooses to conclude the novel with Robbie and Cecilia both dying before they can rekindle their relationship. Briony demonstrates that she finally understands the importance and the magnitude of love by refusing to falsify her sisters relationship for the sake of a happy ending. Her novel is a testament to their love, and she believes that it will immortalize their romance which would otherwise be forgotten. The novel is Briony's final act of love for her sister and
The literary works discussed in the following pages all share a thoughtful probing of a important question that all humankind contemplates. The characters are all searching for something and that something is often their own identity and purpose. Most fail to reach beyond their circumstances and in the process reveal their fatal vulnerability. As a result they become tragic figures. We learn from their struggle and hope to move beyond our own everyday challenges and constraints toward enlightenment.
All the areas that have been explored in accounting for the decision to give Maggie a tragic conclusion seem to leave no doubt that her fate was sealed from the outset. No matter how much the reader feels the sense waste at the loss of `a character essentially noble but liable to great error', it would seem that death for Maggie was the only vindication.
"Remember when you were little, Wynonna? Just a small child, scared of shadow, who didn't think she'd ever matter?" His lips curved into a deeper smile, vexing her even more virulently. "Well, now you can finally have a place in the world. Of course, that place is in ending it; but you matter, don't you? Don't we all?" Shouts surrounded Wynonna from all sides; he was whipping them up. The end of the world was going to start with the end of her, she struggled against the ropes at her wrists again, shoulders and arms aching at the
In Tom's case, the situation rapidly descends into an emergency and brings him near to death, which prompts him to rethink his priorities. While he dangles outside of a window, the determined businessman realizes that what he regrets most in life are “. . . the evenings he had spent away from her [his wife], working. . .” (11), when he should have spent them with the woman he loved. For Mamzelle, however, the situation comes out of nowhere, yet it turns out as a positive experience and brings happiness into her dull soul. Needy children arrive upon her doorstep and begin to teach her what it means to love, yet when the youngsters return to their family, a gaping hole forms in Mamzelle's heart as she now begins to realize how much of her life she has dwelt in loneliness and absence of emotion. Tom and Mamzelle Aurlie's separate realizations hold importance because they develop each character in different ways, therefore showing several common types of reactions under similar circumstances, as well as showing that one does not have to necessarily go through a near-death experience jump out of his or her comfort zone. Realizing that it does not always require a severe jolt in order to reconsider one's purpose on Earth creates opportunities for teenagers to reconsider their own lives, and for certain the author designed their
Romeo and Juliet made many choices out of their own free will, including an irreversible decision that ended in despair for all characters. “All are punished!”(5.3.305). In the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, the actions of Romeo, the actions of Juliet, and the actions of others prove that free will is more paramount than fate in the plot of the play.
Death is a horrific event to have to go through, it is even worse whenever the cause of death is suicide. Thoughts of “why” and “could I have tried harder” race through the minds of family members. In Louise Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible” two close brothers named Henry and Lyman drift apart after Henry is drafted to fight in Vietnam. When Henry returns from Vietnam after being a prisoner of war, he is a completely different person because he has post-traumatic stress disorder. Just as things start to look up for Henry and Lyman, Henry jumps into the river and drowns without explanation. Henry jumps into the river intending to die due to his depression and his resolution of conflict with Lyman.
The Last Question uses multiple different characters, whom each face a common dilemma of reversing entropy in: “Jerrodd read the words on the cellufilm… Zee Prime’s mind spanned the new galaxy… Man considered with himself” (Page 6, 8, and 10). This builds the text’s characterisation in conjunction to the use of atmosphere and mood in the setting to display the connection between characters and settings, which emphasizes the conveyance of themes in the text. Such a technique is used to convey the theme that “human unsustainability can lead to the end of humanity as we know it”. Whereas, in Death Cure each character possesses a differing range of qualities and psychological mindset, appearing in each character’s motivations and behaviours. The text’s protagonist, Thomas, highlights this through his friendship with Teresa, even after horrendous betrayals in: “Three of the closest friends he’d ever had. And WICKED had taken them all away...” (Page 322, Chapter 72), referring to the death of Teresa and the fact that WICKED had been responsible for the death of three of his closest friends. This uses the characterisation of the text to assist in establishing the tense atmosphere and mood of the setting, carrying the theme that “No matter their actions a friend always remains by your side in difficult times”. Subsequently, this shows that Death Cure and The Last Question each use differ considerably in themes expressed. Nevertheless, each text uses characterisation to accentuate the qualities and psychological mindsets of characters in a fashion that builds the atmosphere and mood of the
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice”. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare two young lovers take their lives. After falling in love, Romeo and Juliet discover that their families are sworn enemies. The “star-crossed lovers” continue their relationship secretly, until complications make suicide a choice. Frair Lawrence should not be blamed because he had Romeo and Juliet’s best interest at heart. Romeo and Juliet’s impulsive and irresponsible actions let to their own tragic deaths.