Destruction Of Innocence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Euphoria for the Raptors game tomorrow evening, sadness for the stormy weather outside, and affection for that classmate sitting at the front of the class. These are some emotions that people typically experience as a part of their conventional lifestyle. As a result, emotions lead to decisions as part of ordinary life, like hitting a child out of anger for not performing well on a test. However, these lead to negative results due to the interference of emotions without rational thought, like the consequence of the child potentially leaving the house due to physical assault. Making decisions based on emotions leads to negative outcomes. This will be illustrated through an examination of how the emotions are started within the person, and then

This destruction of innocence in this world can profoundly harm the lives of a lot of people. For example, Romeo’s, blinded, superficial love through lust for Juliet compelled Juliet to love and marry him, which is disobeying her parents by not loving Paris (Shakespeare, 1.3. 69-100). Hence, she lost her innocence from being loyal to her parents, which caused her to be involved in a fight with her parents, ultimately destroying the trust between them and being treated rudely (Shakespeare, 3.5.139 -197). Hence, she was not able to live in her house with freedom, until she gets married to Paris, so the short term goal of being free until marriage. Through this, it is clearly evident that the emotion-based decisions, destroy the innocence of others. Others are influenced to make wrong and unethical decisions that will compromise their future in this world due to the lack of innocence. As a result, the emotions, unfairly, cause the people around them to ultimately make even more wrong decisions in the path of their short-term goals. In addition, the decisions cause the person to lose their innocence due to the emotions. For example, Jack’s pride destroyed his innocence profoundly by him successfully ordering Rodger to kill Piggy with a rock (Golding, 200-201). As a result of the tension and disputes that arose due to Piggy’s death, rescue was delayed and prevented for a lengthy period of time, which was meant to be done within a

Furthermore, it happens unexpectedly to a lot of people. For example, Romeo was unaware of Juliet faking her death (Shakespeare, 5.3.101-120). She was the only person Romeo could have had sex with, as she was the only women who loved him back. As a result, Romeo committed suicide in lust for Juliet (Shakespeare, 5.3. 144-150). Through this, it is clearly evident that emotions cause fast irrational decisions, which lead to death for the person experiencing the emotion. Furthermore, it reveals that the fast decision was unable to be comprised of the rational question-to-self, “Is my decision correct for what is happening,” which, sadly, ends the long-life of progress of the person. In addition, decisions based on emotions also lead to unjust death. For example, Jack, filled with narcissism near the end of the novel, ordered the tribe to kill Ralph, as they set the island on fire to find him and had a “stick sharpened on both ends” for his head (Golding, 209). This illustrates that selfish decisions based on the emotions leads to unfair death of other people. As a result, the person is shortening the lifespan of others, preventing them from living the quality of life they should be living without those decisions. Hence, death destroys all the fully dedicated progress one has made to achieve the final goal desired in life, like working your whole life to receive pension payment after retirement.