Romeo And Juliet Make Good Decisions

A wise man devoted to his religion, realizes that the young boy who he is supposed to be watching over is about to take his own life. Instead of calming the young boy, he lectures him on how to be a man, and how to take full responsibility for his actions. This is only one example of how the elders try to influence the youth, whether it be helpful or not, in Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. In his play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare indicates, through Romeo and the Friars conversations about life, that people who have lived their life are unable to teach the youth to make good decisions because they haven’t experienced life themselves.
Ever since Romeo has met Juliet, a shift in his decisions has been visible, but Friar Lawrence has

Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken?” (II.III.69-71). By using the words so soon forsaken, it is evident that Friar believes Romeo has moved on far too fast from the girl who he was in love with just a few days ago. Although Friar is giving this opinion to Romeo, he doesn’t choose to listen to it, which demonstrates that it is not in Friar's ability to teach Romeo to make better decisions. This is not only shown at the beginning of the play, though. Not long after getting married to Juliet, Romeo makes another bad decision, which is killing her cousin, Tybalt. In a state of exile, Romeo turns to his mentor, the Friar. At this point, Romeo's mental state has gone down the gutter. He thinks that his only option is to stab himself. The Friar walks in, stopping him from continuing, asking “Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art. Thy tear are womanish; thy wild acts denote the unreasonable fury of a beast. Unseemly woman in a seeming man, And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!” (III.III.119-123). Using his tears as a sign that Romeo is womanish indicates Shakespeare’s use of youth versus elder to prove how the Friar saying this won’t change Romeo’s feelings. He also compared Romeo to an ill-beseeming beast. The Friar is showing that with age comes

Going further more into this speech given to Romeo by Friar Lawrence lots of ways Friar's knowledge and wisdom has developed while his age grew. One example would be from his reaction to Romeo wanting to hurt himself, where Friar gives him his motivational speech. In this speech a few particular lines of significance found are; “Why railest thou on thy birth the heaven and earth; three do meet in thee at once which thou once wouldnt lose? In thee at once which thou at once wouldst lose ? Fie fie thou shamest thy shape thy love thy wit, which like a usurer aboundst in all.” (III,III,129-132) this part of Friar's speech will be broken down into 2 multiple parts. The first part where he opposes Romeo's perspective of how everything is against him by saying that he is complaining about his