Decisions In Romeo And Juliet

“A plague o’ both your houses! They have made worm’s meat of me. I have it, And soundly too. Your houses!” (3,1,103-105) In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, fate was decided by the ghastly feud between the Capulets and Montagues. Actions speak more than useless words, which is what Shakespeare is signalling to the reader by Mercutio’s death sentence quote. Before this terrible event happened, many characters had a great amount of hardships to get over, including the feud. Capulet, Tybalt, Romeo, and Juliet all went through some sort of crisis. Capulet was ignorant with his families needs. Tybalt and Romeo were young, stupid, and hot-headed, which resulted in more fights and death. The feud administered the dissolution of adolescent lovers through poor communication with both Montague and Capulet’s actions, with refusal of acceptance.

Tybalt, in Romeo and Juliet pondered over a feud and let his words and actions speak on behalf of other Capulets. He says “What, drawn and talk of peace! I hate the word as I hate hell all Montagues, and thee. Have at Thee, coward.”(1,1,63-65) Since Tybalt said those hateful things, his words lead to a fight, adding even more demise to the feud, then which already existed. This shows how the communication was so poor towards both parties, which lead to even more misunderstanding and deaths. Also, rash judgement lead to the dreadful end of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo says “Alive in triumph! And Mercutio slain! Away to heaven, respective lenity, and fire-eyed fury by conduct now!”(3,1,119-124) Romeo had built up anger from the feud which resulted in him aimlessly killing Tybalt. His actions were rash and not careful enough causing a huge rut in the Capulet’s family. All of the actions were caused by pure hate and rash decision