Romeo And Juliet Decision Making Quotes

Eli Oatman
Miss Ford
Period 1
16 March 2023
The Significance of Decision-Making in Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet demonstrates how even the simplest decisions can lead to dreadful things. The actions of Romeo, Juliet, and fate cause the tragic consequences of the entire play. Romeo’s spontaneous and passionate actions throughout the play lead to the death of Romeo and Juliet because he lets his impulsiveness drive his choices. At the beginning of Act II, Romeo decides not to join his friends leaving the Capulet party and instead goes back to the orchard in hopes of seeing Juliet again: “Can I go forward when my heart is here?/ Turn back dull earth and find thy center out” (2.1.1-2). Here, Romeo is on the dull earth, and the center he wants

To begin, Romeo is gazing at Juliet from the Orchard, describing her beautiful qualities. Juliet is wondering why Romeo has to be a Montague when she says, “Deny thy father and refuse thy name,/Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,/And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”( II.ii.37). This quote identifies the familial conflict at the heart of the play, and in choosing Romeo over her family, Juliet sets into motion the consequential chain of events that lead to Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths. In the middle of Act 3, Juliet is thinking about her wedding day, longing for it to be night so she can marry her love, Romeo. She dreams of the wedding when she states, “So tedious is thy day/As is the night before some festival/To an impatient child that hath new robes/And may not wear them”(III.ii.28-31). As Juliet expresses her maturity by longing for her wedding night, she compares herself to an “impatient child.” This serves to remind the audience that Juliet is not yet fourteen. Throughout the play, Juliet matures and reaches major life events too early, which foreshadows that she will also die much too young. The quote also shows how she is so young and doesn’t know what is right for her yet, going against the decisions of her family and only thinking about what she wants. At the very end of the play, Juliet has just awakened from the poison in Romeo’s

Fate has an impactful role in the outcome of Romeo and Juliet. Before the play even begins, the chorus is telling the audience that Romeo and Juliet will die, when the chorus discloses that “ A pair of starred-croft lovers, take their life/… Do with their death, bury their parents’ strife/… What here shall miss, our toil shall thrive to live”(prologue.5-13). This jarring news tells the audience that Romeo and Juliet are destined to die for their families’ own good. This means that the only thing that’s controlling their life now, is destiny. Later on in Act, I, scene V, Juliet has just met Romeo and is sending the nurse to go talk to Romeo, when she states, “If he is married,/My grave is like to be my wedding bed”(I.V. 136-137 ). This ironic statement exhibits Juliet’s love for Romeo, but also her true providence. This shows how Romeo and Juliet are so deeply connected in love that they are only so close to their fate. Romeo and Juliet have just awoken and they are talking about Romeo leaving so he won’t get caught. Juliet is telling him that he should go, when Romeo says“ I must be gone and live, or stay and die”(III.V.11). This impactful quote illustrates how Romeo doesn’t want to leave Juliet and leave for Mantua. From a deeper perspective, it shows how ironic this statement is because he does end up coming back or staying, resulting in his fateful death. Overall, fate played a vital role in the tragedy