Question 2

So much of this play is about rushed decisions and impetuous behavior. How did the hurried nature of Romeo and Juliet’s choices determine their fate?

2. The nature of hurried or rushed decisions is something that can be easily and overly argued. In the case of Romeo and Juliet, the two characters do for a fact support the argument of rushed choices produce terrible results. The response from the other side of the argument would be that even if Romeo and Juliet would have spent more time making their choices, they most likely would have made the same choices because both of them did not focus so much on producing a good idea as they did one that worked, so even if they had taken more time making choices they both would have agreed with each other that they had a simple plan that would do just fine, and ‘it wasn’t broken, so they were not going to try to fix it’!

I think tend to agree with this side because the nature of a person’s choices are based on the information that they hold truth, and their ideas. Almost anyone will agree with the statement “ideas have consequences”. I say that the time frame did not make much of a difference in this case because of the way that Romeo and Juliet both thought.

If it were to be a different person or group of persons then the timeframe may have had an affect on their choices. The style of a person’s choices is relative to the person’s style of thinking which is based off of their knowledge. If their knowledge was that making choices as fast as possible was better for the reason of a lifespan being so shot, yet the people were not concerned about their lifespan then maybe they actually would have spent more time making the choice.

As far as Romeo and Juliet there is no question that their quick choices did lead to their resulting death. In the first place the quick choice of Romeo deciding that Juliet was the perfect woman was not a very good start at all. Second the idea of the getting married without telling anybody is a mistake that people today often make. The problem in doing this Is that if someone else does see a very important reason as to why the two should not get married and they are not there to say something, as seen in this story, it may just be a fatal attraction, and it could be a horrible and or short marriage.

In this tragedy, Shakespeare really seems to encourage the idea of thinking about your belief system, and thinking about the way you choose to live. The reason I say this is because Shakespeare makes it very evident that he promotes the idea of thinking about your choices because choices that are not well thought out will in his story have quite deadly consequences.