The thesis our group made is “In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare shows that the power of love causes people to act rashly and illogically.” This is shown on many different occasions in the book. Whenever one of the characters falls in love with someone they go off and want to get married instantly. If they can not get married then they will get severely depressed and become suicidal. This can be seen when Paris says, “younger than she have happy mothers made”(I.ii 12). When Paris first met Juliet, which was not that long ago, he fell in love. He than instantly wants to marry her, despite not having known her for very long and her being only thirteen. Here Paris makes a rash decision of choosing who he wants to spend the rest of his life