Rational Decisions In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. Both Romeo and Juliet are young and sprightly teenagers, Romeo being 15-16 and Juliet with the age of 13. They are teens that make impulsive decisions without thinking about the consequences. David Dobbs the author of the article “Beautiful Brains” explains why teenagers act the way they do throughout scientific research and studies. This article helps to understand Romeos and Juliets actions which led to their deaths.

Romeo led several people to their defeat because of the irrational choices that he made. He speaks boldly, but when he comes to action, he behaves like a coward. When he was challenged by Tybalt, the Prince of Cats, he refused to fight, therefore ending his best friend’s life, Mercutio. His quick actions overcome his words and the situation mostly concludes with failure. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo made a rash and desperate decision to fall into love with Juliet resulting in death and sorrow.

Welcome to Verona, a town where two rival families and their accomplices make terrible decisions. For one, telling a child to get married at thirteen years old is a bad parenting decision on its own. In “Romeo and Juliet,” people got married and had kids at an extremely young age. Being so young, people of those ages tend to not make rational decisions; however, even the adults in the tragedy couldn’t wisely make decisions. Capulet forcing Juliet to marry Paris caused Juliet stress and made it harder for Romeo and Juliet to be together.

Destiny, something we determine or is your fate already set in stone? Pity and tragedy words used to describe William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet for hundreds of years. The play was tragic in the end, but Romeo and Juliet's last breaths were the cause of their own irrational decisions.

Didn’t Elvis say it best when ever he said, “Wise men say only fools rush into love”. This idea is expressed throughout the world because so many mistakes are made whenever people rush into love. It seems as though love has a powerful hold on people and they just can’t help what they do once they are in love. It is as if they are almost blind to everything else around them, and also blind to the consequences that might come from their choices that they make. Teenagers seem to be more at risk for such frivolous love due to the fact they have lived such ephemeral lives. Since teen brains are not fully developed it can lead to fickle or poor decision making, and sometimes leads to making choices that result in teen pregnancy. Poor decision

Teenagers brains aren’t fully developed during their teenage years, and this partially explains why Romeo made juvenile and naive decisions throughout Romeo and Juliet. In an article by David Dobbs, he states, “This process of maturation, once thought to be largely finished by elementary school, continues throughout adolescence.” This quote is relevant because it may have a say in the explanation of Romeo’s irrational decisions that I am about to discuss disregarding his fate. For example, in Act 3 Scene 1, Romeo states, “Now Tybalt, take the villain back again, either Thou, or both must go with him.” Romeo seeks revenge on Tybalt after Tybalt killed Mercutio.

In William Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet”, a tragedy, two young star-crossed lovers marry and set in stone, a course of bad decisions, which leads to their untimely death. Romeo a Montague and Juliet a Capulet are part of two feuding families, who against their parents wishes marry and with their death, end their parents feud. Throughout the play these two teenagers make irrational decisions leading to their death, which can be explained through scientific data collected by studies on teenage brains and sleep deprivation. Teenage brains are underdeveloped until the age of 25 causing teenagers to act without thinking and lack of sleep leads to teenagers reacting negatively to news. Romeos irrational actions of killing Tybalt and

Even seemingly easy decisions can have negative repercussions if all of the options are not fully weighed. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare the major flaw in Romeo’s character is that he had such deep feelings and often didn’t think about the consequences of his actions. Romeo made too many irrational decisions without taking time to fully weigh all of his options.

Friday, April 13th, 7:25, health class. The school day had started off normal, but Brock’s mind was in a different place. There was a new girl in class, Joslyn, who Brock thought was the prettiest girl he had ever seen. All day Brock couldn’t focus because he was thinking about her, what to say and what to do. He finally came to a consensus that he would try to impress her. As Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet shows that teenagers make decisions out of spite and romance, many people today also believe that teenagers can make rational decisions.

In a study released by the Mayo Clinic, they found that over 3 million people in the United States are alcoholics. Not only is drinking alcohol addictive, but it can lead to injuries and deaths. According to the CDC, in 2015, 10,265 people died from car crashes that were because of drivers being drunk on the road. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two lovers who come from rival families. After being secretly wedded they find themselves facing hard situations. Like driving under the influence of alcohol, emotions cause them to make decisions that lead to a deadly end. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the author reveals how love can manipulate the actions and decisions of people, characters like Mercutio, Romeo, and Juliet are examples of how

One of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, is exactly that, tragic. Shakespeare illustrates an account of two feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets, that have risen to a higher power than the Prince himself because of this never ending conflict. Somehow within this feud Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, meet and fall in love. From the start, this pair of lovers knows they are doomed. How would the two families ever accept the children of the heads of the households’ marriage, let alone their love? They refused to give in to the rivalry set before them by their parents. Romeo and Juliet are married in secret. As time goes on, the flaws in their plan surface, causing tensions to rise and Romeo and Juliet to meet a tragic end. Even in this tale of star-crossed lovers, nothing could be blamed on the destinies written in the stars: personal choice was the driving factor of this story, constantly thwarting their destinies for better and for worse.

“The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” is a classic love story in which two star-crossed lovers execute themselves in agony of one another. In William Shakespeare's “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,” the leading cause of Romeo and Juliet's death is Friar Lawrence’s decisions. He messed up when he decided to marry the both of them, giving Juliet the potion, and leaving her by herself with her dead husband in her family’s tomb. Friar Lawrence’s decisions would be categorized as an internal conflict’ the effects of his internal conflicts lead to Romeo and Juliet killing themselves. It all started when Friar Lawrence agreed to marry them in act two, scene six.

Romeo and Juliet’s parents play an unwitting role in their children’s deaths. Their parents’ rivalry poses a big problem for them and makes it almost impossible for the two to live in peace. Romeo and Juliet acknowledge this obstacle when it is placed in front of them. The problems already arise from their first meet when Juliet just finds out about

There are many reasons people have of what caused Romeo and Juliet’s death, but which reason is the best? Romeo and Juliet have a forbidden love that is traced by the feud between their families. There is no way to escape the fact that their families despise each other. Romeo and Juliet have a love for each other that no one can explain. They loved each other since first sight, and they would rather die than not be together. There are many good opinions about why Romeo and Juliet died, but which explains the whole story and not part of it? Is it fate? Their decisions? The family’s fault? Is is the natural flaws each character has? Not one person is to blame for this tragedy, but everyone is. Everyone that was involved

Shakespeare does this by noting how Romeo and Juliet do not actually love each other. This is represented by Romeo and Juliets actions and rash decision making. Their decisions are very impulsive and rushed. As a result, it impacted them negatively in the future and as well as their relationship. Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other is not actually how love really is. They’ve mistakenly confused lust for love.