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Foolish Decisions In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a love story that was turned wrong, written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century. The story takes place in Verona, Italy, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love. Within the story, the foolish decisions of Romeo going to the Capulet party, killing Tybalt, and getting exiled all led up to the conclusion of the story as Juliet, himself, and others end up dying.

The first action which led up to their deaths was at the start of the writing. Romeo found a servant who was sending out invites to a Capulet dinner party. Romeo helps the servant out in exchange for getting into the party where he finds and falls in love with Juliet. “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.” Lines 43-45 in act 1 scene 5 show that Romeo is deeply in love with Juliet, comparing her to a shining diamond. Unfortunately, Romeo is in the rival family of the Capulets, which makes the relationship unlikely to
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At the start of the act, Tybalt and Mercutio begin to have a duel. Romeo arrives and attempts to break up the fight between the two. As he was doing this, he ended up having Tybalt kill Mercutio. “Thou wretched boy, that didst consort him here, shalt he with hence,” Tybalt threatens Romeo with death and begins to fight Romeo. “And for that offense immediately we do exile him hence,” shows that due to Romeo killing Tybalt, he is exiled. This all led to Juliet faking her death because she didn’t want to marry Paris and wanted to be with Romeo. When Romeo found out she supposedly died, he entered Verona and went to kill himself by her side. Paris was at her tomb, which caused Romeo to kill him as well. Before his death, Romeo said, “Here’s to my love! Thy drugs are quick to take. Thus with a kiss I die.” After his death, Juliet awakened and killed herself because Romeo was the only man she wanted in her

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