Bad Choices Between Romeo And Juliet

Being in love can be powerful and influential thing. Love can make people choose and decide a lot of things that can be bad. In “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, Juliet has to choose between Romeo and the only thing she knows: her family. The choices made by Romeo and mainly Juliet while in the circumstances they are in, are bad choices. Because Juliet chooses to put love first as a young innocent girl in her society, she makes impulsive, hasty decisions which ultimately determine her fate of death. The society Juliet and Romeo are born into makes an impact on the choices she makes. The Montagues of Romeo and Capulets of Juliet hate each other. In the beginning of the play, the servants of the Capulets and Montagues are fighting for third time and the Prince addressees it and threatens death if they continue: "By thee, old Capulet, and

She is only fourteen and has never really done that much because her family shelters her. Paris wants to marry Juliet but Capulet argues and says that girls who marry too young grow up too fast which is the real fear: “And too soon marred are those so early made.” (Shakespeare 10). Juliet should’ve known this herself because this is the problem, Juliet is too young and immature for such things to just grow up so fast. Juliet does not know herself what she is getting into. Juliet has never really made her own decisions before this and she is still very naïve. Juliet proclaims, “Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use type of behavior in which an animal applies something it has already learned to a new situation, without a period of trial and error; also called reasoning in prayer.” (Shakespeare 22). She has never done or thought about any love related things, unlike Romeo. It would be hard to make future determining decisions if she is so ignorant of what love really is. Innocence at her age does not help her in the long