Romeo and Juliet: Hasty Decisions In the play Romeo and Juliet, both Romeo and Juliet don't appear to be very smart. Throughout the story, many issues appear to show up in the poem. Out of all the possible decisions to be made, the selected resolutions were not the best ones and were not very well thought out. The decisions that were made are the guts in the story. Without these decisions, a lot of the conclusion would have been changed. To begin, most would say the first hasty decision to be made, is Romeo and Juliet's decision to get married. With today's society, getting married at the age of thirteen and sixteen is unorthodox and very frowned upon. However, in Shakespeare's time, several girls would get married at about the age of thirteen to fifteen. But what makes this hasty in both Shakespeare's time and the twenty-first centaury? The fact that the time when Romeo met Juliet and the time they were engaged to one another, is that the time was about an …show more content…
No matter the situation, every time something excessively bad happened, both Romeo and Juliet threatened to kill themselves. For example, Juliet is forced to get married to Count Paris but before Juliet agrees, she runs to Friar Lawrence's cell and proclaims: "I'd soon rather die then to marry again." The very first thought to run through Juliet's empty head, was to commit suicide. Of course, that's not when she did eventually commit suicide. Another example of suicide is when Romeo receives word that Juliet had "died". Juliet wasn't dead, but Romeo had no idea. When he arrives in Verona again, slays Paris, and enters the Capulet tomb, he finds Juliet lying on her bed. Instead of grieving more than at least ten minutes, he has a short monologue, drinks his poison, and kills himself. Juliet wakes not two minutes after he dies and then kills herself with this dagger. Not anytime to mourn at all, just wakes up and instantaneously kills