Romeo's bad Decision in Romeo And Juliet Essay

In the Shakespearean play "Romeo and Juliet," the one grave mistake that Romeo made that affected him greatly was his decision to slay Tybalt in retaliation for Tybalt's having slayed Romeo's friend Mercutio. This rash decision on Romeo's part cost him not only his own life, but also of that of his wife Juliet.

Although Romeo and Juliet made many mistakes, which led to many consequences, the grave mistake was made, when Romeo could not suppress his emotions over the death of Mercutio, his best friend. As we all know, that Tybalt caused Mercutio's death because Mercutio had provoked him, into dueling. Even though they were just fooling around, Mercutio had gotten slain in the process unintentionally by the tip of Tybalt's blade. Romeo, who had witnessed the slaying of Mercutio, simply could not suppress his rising anger, and in retaliation killed Tybalt this was a big mistake in Romeo's part.

Throughout the process of Mercutio getting slain by Tybalt, and Romeo slaying Tybalt, the prince was alerted and had come to see what had happened. Eventually, everything got sorted out but not for the best of things, this is because Romeo ends up getting banished from Verona as punishment for the slaying of Tybalt. In my opinion, this was the grave decision made by Romeo, because the prince would have most likely killed Tybalt as a consequence for killing Mercutio, who was a kinsman to the prince. The result would have been the same, that being that Mercutio and Tybalt would be dead, and the only difference would be that the Prince would have killed Tybalt, and Romeo would not have been banished from Verona, and thus could still be able to see his wife Juliet.

These events are all linked to each other, this is because each event triggered another which each had their own consequences. As I had mentioned above in my essay that the grave mistake made by Romeo was actually killing Tybalt. Had Romeo not slain Tybalt, he would not have been exiled from Verona and he would then not have had to go to Friar Laurence's cell, to seek reassurance that he would be okay.

However, it was Romeo's fault once again, because when he received news about Juliet's death, he didn't stop to think about it or to perhaps get a second opinion from say Friar Laurence, about Juliet. Nevertheless he did not bother to think; instead he just acted and made another grave decision of going and buying poison from the apothecary in Mantua, which he then drank whole right beside Juliet's "supposedly" dead body, and finally when Juliet awakens she sees the body of her dead husband Romeo, after finding out how Romeo had killed himself she tried getting some residue of the poison from his lips but got nothing, she even checked the bottle and did not get anything from that either. By the time she realizes that she has no other choice but to kill herself with the dagger that she had put under her pillow, and at that precise moment Friar Laurence enters the Capulet vault and tries to persuade Juliet to run away with him, and that he would disguise her a nun in a convent somewhere far away. Yet, Juliet refuses and profusely inserts the dagger into her heart therefore committing suicide.

Therefore, in my opinion I think that the one grave mistake that Romeo made that affected him greatly was that of deciding to slay Tybalt, which then cost him not only his own life, but also of his wife Juliet's. I say this because of the actions of Romeo, because if Romeo had not killed Tybalt, Romeo would not have been banished from Verona by Prince Escalus, and he would not have to leave his dear wife Juliet.