The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, was constructed by the rash, unthought out, reasonless decisions by Romeo, a lovesick boy, and Juliet, a thirteen year old girl who does not know the difference between attraction and love, who are both teens stuck in a bitter feud between the powerful families of old Verona, Italy; the Capulets and Montagues. The main lesson of Romeo and Juliet is rushing judgement and making ill thought out decisions leads to catastrophic outcomes for side characters, people in power, and even main characters. The entire play shows characters making terrible, rushed decisions, some fatal and some not, but the side characters make major mistakes that affect Romeo and Juliets. Juliet's cousin, a spiteful capulet man named Tybalt, had the brilliant idea to challenge Romeo to …show more content…
Juliet’s virtual mother, the nurse, helped Juliets and Romeo get married by sneaking around and acting like a schoolgirl, and it never once dawned on her that, perhaps, she might be making a doomsdaysish mistake by not telling a soul about the surreptitious marriage. The man who commissioned this holy matrimony, Friar Lawrence, helped out his pal Romeo by marrying a couple that had only been familiar with each other for a day-who were clearly only physically attracted to each other- and paired them in the eyes of God and the Holy Roman Church. The Montagues and Capulets had a massive amount of power in Verona, yet they were both are on killing each other for reasons to even themselves, and it took the death of both only children for the adults to finally realize that the childish feud had brought nothing but harm upon both families, with Lord Capulet professing,”This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more I can demand”(Act 5, Scene