How Did Romeo And Juliet Make Bad Decisions

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In Romeo and Juliet, there were two young lovers that ended up dying at the end of the play. Their decisions throughout the play determine if they're going to die or not. First, being from a different house was a big problem in the play. The houses would fight and try to kill each other every day. After Romeo found his love with Juliet, he sneaked to her window, and if he had been caught, he most likely would have been killed. Throughout the play, they could have left Verona together and never be seen again, had they chosen not to, or they could have worked something out with Capulet. I think that would be their safest way to not get killed. I think their death was fate and their destiny, because there were many situations where they could have just left Verona and lived forever together. With …show more content…

Romeo shows up to the party knowing if he has been caught, that he could end up dead or hurt. Then he found Juliet and tried to avoid being from the Capulet family and could have got him hurt. At the end of the play, he runs from the police and then goes into the Capulet. Then, when he does, Paris dies. With all the decisions and people that he has killed, the Capulet is going to kill him and probably Juliet too. Juliet didn't really make that many bad decisions. Throughout the play, she refused a lot of things that could have gotten her killed, like the Lord Capulat threatening to kill her himself if she didn't marry Paris. When she went to Friar Laurence to do her “Confession” she knew what she was doing. She threatened to kill herself if she had to marry Paris. It would be so easy if she would just have left Romeo. She wouldn't have to go through this problem with Paris and Lord Capulet. The first major mistake, and probably the biggest one, was marrying someone from the Montague family. From just doing that, or just kissing him, could have gotten her killed if anyone but the nurse knew about the