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Choices In Romeo And Juliet

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The choices people make affect them every day. The ways we make decisions are interesting in the way they affect us; one decision can make plenty of differences and changes in our life. Just like in the play of ¨Romeo and Juliet¨ - William Shakespeare, where two young teenagers fall in love with one another and decide to get married. Romeo gets banished from Verona, also where Juliet lives. Juliet is forced to marry Paris, so she decides to fake her death, Romeo thinks she is dead and kills himself because of it and when Juliet wakes up she sees Romeo dead. And kills herself too. As well as in the short story ¨ Pyramus and Thisbe¨-Ovid. Where two teenagers are willing to do anything to be together, even if they were forbidden from being together because their parents forbade it, so they would communicate threw a small crack on the wall, and were …show more content…

Like when Romeo decided to go to the Capulet party on Act I Scene iv, knowing or thinking he was going to die because of the dream he had. When Juliet decided not to marry Paris and marry Romeo in secret. Romeo and Juliet are not the only ones to blame for their death, because the Friar and the Prince were a big part of it too. She decides to fake her death with the help of the Friar. The Friar offered Juliet a potion that would fake her death and look very realistic, the Friar says that the potion would make her look ¨cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse shall keep this native progress, but surcease, no warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest...¨-Act iv Scene I. And the Friar´s plan of making Romeo save Juliet from the tomb once she was awake, would have worked if it weren't for the prince because he told Romeo ¨Let Romeo hence in haste, Else, when he is found, that hour is his last. ¨ - Act iii Scene I. And if Romeo was still in Verona he would have known Juliet was faking her death he would've got there on time to save

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