“People need to learn that their actions do affect other people. So be careful what you say and do it’s not always just about you,” (unknown). Ever so often we encounter individuals who grab the course of our lives and take if for a three-hundred sixty degree turn. The story Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a prime example of this situation. As the story unfolds, we discover that Romeos actions have the greatest impact on the play. Not only was he the first to lure Juliet, a Capulet, into his looks and charms and consults Friar Laurence to arrange the Marriage, but his exile provokes a cascade of downfall events that eventually lead to the death of the married couple. In the beginning, Romeo was introduced as a depressed lover, who had just had his heart broken by, a girl named Rosaline. A party is announced at the Capulet household that ensures Rosaline’s appearance. Romeo and his friends, Benvolio and Mercutio, are prohibited to attend, for they are Montagues not Capulets. Benvolio is insistent and convinces Romeo to attend. There he encounters Rosaline, but quickly forgets about her when he lays his eyes upon Juliet. Admiring Juliet’s …show more content…
If tables were turned, Juliet could very well have approached Romeo first. Taking circumstances into perspective, she had never encountered any form of love on her own. Briefly before the party, Lady Capulet had taken Juliet aside and asked, “Speak briefly. Can you like of Paris, love?” (I.iii.98). Attempting to please her mother Juliet respond, “I’ll look to like if liking move./ But no more deep will endart mine eye/ Than your consent gives strength to make it fly,” (I.iv.99-101). Evidently demonstrated Lady Capulet had requested Juliet to attempt and like Paris as a spouse. Any of her potential affairs have been arranged by her parent thus, her inexperience in love provoked a very slim possibility of her approaching Romeo