William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a popular tragedy that displays the intense love between two star-crossed characters. This play demonstrates the negative conflicts deep love can have on people. The two main characters display how strong the love is between them and take it to drastic heights just to be together. Romeo’s rash decisions that take place have an impact on Mercutio, Tybalt, and Juliet. Mercutio is one of the first characters to fall victim to Romeo’s decisions. Mercutio challenges Tybalt to a duel because of how awful he speaks about Romeo. During the dragged out clash between Mercutio and Tybalt, it seems as if the fight isn’t being taken as seriously as it should be. Romeo did not see through this, and places himself in between the two brawlers. The interference from Romeo causes Tybalt’s sword to go under Romeo’s arm into Mercutio’s upper body( Shakespeare 1593). Tybalt did not
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Romeo becomes enraged after Mercutio’s death and decides to fight Tybalt to avenge Mercutio. This is a little unexpected for Tybalt considering the fact he doesn’t want to harm anyone. The brawl is intense and Romeo is not holding back any bit of his anger towards Tybalt. After a while Romeo is determined the victor and Tybalt is dead. Romeo doesn’t realize things will get worse for himself which in turn will cause a chain of events (Shakespeare 1630). Because of slaying Tybalt, Romeo is banished from Verona and this messes with his relationship with Juliet; they will not have the opportunity to see each other anymore. Perhaps Romeo is so blinded by rage that he did not think about what would be affected if he killed Tybalt. Revenge is usually never the answer; if Romeo thought things through about what he was going to do he would not have been banished in the first place. Through this decision the entire story arc afterwards would probably change into the exact opposite of what is seen at the
Romeo becomes enraged after Mercutio’s death and decides to fight Tybalt to avenge Mercutio. This is a little unexpected for Tybalt considering the fact he doesn’t want to harm anyone. The brawl is intense and Romeo is not holding back any bit of his anger towards Tybalt. After a while Romeo is determined the victor and Tybalt is dead. Romeo doesn’t realize things will get worse for himself which in turn will cause a chain of events (Shakespeare 1630). Because of slaying Tybalt, Romeo is banished from Verona and this messes with his relationship with Juliet; they will not have the opportunity to see each other anymore. Perhaps Romeo is so blinded by rage that he did not think about what would be affected if he killed Tybalt. Revenge is usually never the answer; if Romeo thought things through about what he was going to do he would not have been banished in the first place. Through this decision the entire story arc afterwards would probably change into the exact opposite of what is seen at the