The story Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragedy between star-crossed lovers. Throughout the story, you are brought through the life of two young people, Romeo and Juliet, who meet and fall in love only to discover they are both from their rival’s families. No matter what they chose to secretly be together and shortly after their first meetings, they join in a marriage behind their families back. This does not keep the couple together due to them both dying for miscommunication in the end. Rash decisions in Romeo and Juliet are key things that help drive this tragedy and bring it to the breaking end that brings most to shock trying to figure out what these two lovesick teens could have done to help their love.
Juliet and Romeo constantly faced trials in their choice in love amongst themselves. Keeping this secret of love from their spirit families challenged them and gave much fluctuation in feelings about situations. These great fluctuations in emotions, even with advice from others that knew the secret, couldn’t stop them from making emotionally driven choices. When Romeo first goes to Lawrence for advice about his new love for Juliet, he comments on …show more content…
It doesn’t help much that Romeo about a day after their first meeting, appears in front of Friar Lawrence with the proposition on marrying him and Juliet as soon as possible, “O, let us hence. I stand on sudden haste. Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.” (2.3.100-101). Even though Lawrence tries to tell Romeo slower, but inevitably ignores his own advice and marries them anyway. Juliet's love life as her secret husband, Romeo, is banished and her hand is promised to Paris, “Monday, ha ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon. O' Thursday let it be.—O' Thursday, tell her, She shall be married to this noble earl.— Will you be ready? Do you like this haste? […] My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow.” (3.4.22-25; 32). Her father, Capulet, upon hearing that Tybalt has been murdered takes it into his own hands to summon Pairs, instead of wait and have them both marry on Thursday. He makes this decision on a roller coaster of emotions he feels seeing Tybalt now dead and wanting his daughter, Juliet, to be happy with someone Capulet approves of and quickly. Capulet isn’t the only one have strong feelings over the incident of Tybalt's death, Romeo on the opposite end. The way he feels due to his inability to restrain himself, over killing Tybalt, his newlywed wife hates him for the pain he’s caused in their family, “Hold thy