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Wrong Choices In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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The effect of one’s actions
Love is so beautiful and so pure, yet it's not always sunshine and rainbows. In the play Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers fall in love, only to be met with misfortune leading to their deaths. Romeo and Juliet's story is an obvious example of what happens when people make choices: the wrong choices. Romeo and Juliet were too young to be in love. Their families were enemies, yet they still decided to fall in love and take a chance for a happy ever after. The choice alone to fall in love mixed with their young age and family feud caused the domino effect to take place meaning it took one thing to go wrong for everything else to go downhill. They should have known better.
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In the play, Romeo keeps switching who he loves and Juliet is so young the idea of marriage hasn't crossed her mind. Romeo sees Juliet for the first time and says, “The measure is done, I'll watch her place of stand. And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (I, V, L-LIV). Romeo sees Juliet and says wow she's so beautiful! What about Rosaline? His love for the fair Rosaline was done as soon as he saw someone prettier. Seeing how he treated his past lover it is evident that he would have left Juliet when someone more beautiful came along. So therefore Romeo and Juliet’s obsession with each other had nothing to do with fate it was just regular teenage behavior. Romeo an evident example of a 16-century playboy meaning even if they had lived longer it would have ended in a bitter marriage. Even if fate had a role in the play it was their choice to make out with the hottest …show more content…

He wouldn't have made Tybalt angry and both Juliet and he would have lived very long and healthy lives. When the servant asks Romeo to come to the party “I pray, come and crush a cup of wine. Rest to merry!” (I, II, LXXXI). The servant specifically said that Romeo could only go if he wasn't of the house of Montague.“And if you be not of the house of Montagues” ( I, II, LXXX). Romeo knew he was going to a party of the house of Capulets and only Capulets and neutrals would be in attendance. He could have politely declined the invitation. Instead, he should have stayed at home because he still wasn't completely over Rosaline, but no! He wanted to prove that there was nobody prettier in the world than Rosaline, but there was someone more beautiful: Juliet (or so Romeo

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