How Does Shakespeare Present Rash Decisions In Romeo And Juliet

Have you ever made a decision that will impact society or the people around you? Maybe you have or maybe in the future, you will. Romeo, a Montague, falls in love with Juliet, a Capulet, even though the two families are enemies. When Mercutio and Tybalt die Romeo is banished from Verona and Juliet being Romeo’s wife goes to the Friar for help who gives her a death like potion. When she wakes up Romeo will be there to take her away but when Romeo finds out that Juliet has “died”, he drinks a poison at Juliet’s tomb. When Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo dead she stabs herself with his dagger and dies. William Shakespeare display’s rash decisions in his play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet through soliloquies that result in the dead of Romeo and Juliet along with several other characters. …show more content…
Here Juliet is talking to herself. “Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins That almost freezes up the heat of life….Romeo, I come! This do I drink thee” (IV. iii. 16-18, 60). In part of the scene, Juliet is on stage by herself in her bedroom about to drink the potion. This is important because Shakespeare decides to have Juliet on stage by herself which adds another emphasis to the decision she is about to make. Juliet not only thinks about what she is going to do but is very doubtful that the Friar has mixed up the potions. But in the end, she drinks it because at that point in time she knows that this is the only way she will see Romeo again. She says that she is going to Romeo and with that