Ava Hill Jennifer Reed GATE 9 7 May 2024 Title(I still have to come up with this) Decisions take time to make. They are hard to justify and people often get them wrong, particularly if the person is a moody, hormonal teenager desperate for companionship. The consequences of decisions are reflected in all aspects of human lives. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, two families, the Montagues, and the Capulets, have a generations-long feud. When Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall into forbidden love, they must find a way for their love to live past their family's resentment for each other. They devise a childish and destined-to-fail plan with the help of the Friar. As Juliet fakes her death to be with Romeo, Romeo kills himself to be with the “dead” …show more content…
When an action is not going a child's way, they become stubborn, sitting and crying on the ground until their parents finally give in. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Juliet does not want to marry Paris, the prince's relative, because she is in passionate, deep, undying love with Romeo. She stubbornly lists off all the actions she would rather do than marry Paris to Friar Lawrence, “O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,/ From off the battlements of any tower,/ Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk/ Where serpents are. Chain me with roaring bears,/ Or hide me nightly in a charnel house,/ O’ercovered quite with dead man’s rattling bones,/ With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls./ Or bid me go into a new-made grave/ And hide me with a dead man in his shroud /(Things that hear them told have made me tremble)”(IV.i.78-88). Juliet would rather jump off a tower, walk in alleys with thieves, sit among serpents, be stuck with bears, sleep in a crypt, and be buried alive, rather than be married to Paris. Subsequently, her rant sets a plan into motion within Friar Lawrence’s mind to reunite the two