Romeo And Juliet Decisions

In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers make rash decisions that inevitably lead to the tragic deaths of both the main characters and others, by the end of the play. Romeo and Juliet both make impulsive choices that go against their parents' rules that end up leading to their tragic ends. Right before Juliet's potion starts to kick in she says, “o, look! Methinks I see my cousin’s ghost seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body upon a rapier’s point. Stay, Tybalt, stay! Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, I drink to thee” (Shakespeare 457). Furthermore, this quote relates to my claim because it shows that Juliet makes the decision to drink the potion that “kills'' her.

Next Juliet foreshadows her own death and her wedding bed does indeed become her grave. In addition, this shows that Juliet determined her own fate by predicting her future and making her thoughts come true, based on the decisions she made leading up to this moment. Then, Romeo determines his own fate by making his own decisions. Finally, before Romeo attended the party, where he so easily fell with Juliet, he had some doubts about what the future withheld as he feared, “…for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date…and expired the term of a despised life closed in my breast by some vile forfeit of untimely death” (Shakespeare 391). Lastly, Romeo determined his own fate because Romeo had a feeling, which he feared, that something destined was going to happen. Not only does he feel this, but he also mentions a despised life coming to an untimely death, foreshadowing young death in the play. This thought is proven true once both Romeo and Juliet passed away due to their passion for each other. But ultimately, Romeo was the one who still had doughnuts but made the decision to attend the party