Pursuing and Compromising to Attain Happiness
The first smell that customers inside a bakery is the pleasing sweet and sugary taste of the bread and desserts made by the bakers. They utilize sugar for the sweet and luscious taste of the treat. Yet, when too much of the content is consumed, there is a noticeable deterioration in health within the user. Alongside the amount of consequences, a slight addiction is created and their health continues to deteriorate without wanting to compromise their indulgence. Furthermore continuing these traits, William Shakespeare’s drama, Romeo and Juliet, are also victims in these mistaken values. As they first met, they had notices an inadequate quantity of “sugar” and longed for more. Compromises had to be made to accommodate to their utopian values. This demonstrates that an individual can only contain certain amounts of said features in order to match the acceptance of society and oneself. Through the priorities of oneself, sacrificial actions and narrow-minded thoughts, Shakespeare reveals how even when love causes impracticality for any compromise to show through, the unwillingness to accommodate must be held back during inordinate times and rationally thought of.
Individuals previously retain biased and prejudiced thoughts when thinking of choices for their own satisfaction. By consequence, others who lust for selfish contentment provokes those who are affected to become self-centered and egotistic. As “[Romeo’s] name is Romeo and a Montague/ The son of [Juliet’s] great enemy”, they can not disregard their families past to pursue their love and pleasure. Although the two families could be with each other in unity, this meagre possibility is destroyed by the lack of want to come to a consensus. These selfish traits are the foundation of a useless dispute and unnecessary argument over the past history. Whereas a simple understanding of another would evict all future consequences and become a step closer to attain complete consensus. As Romeo and Juliet continue to “[feast] with [their] enemy”, and pursue their love for each other, Shakespeare further reveals the sacrificial actions such as Friar Laurence’s “consent to marry [them] today”. The love and true affection that they emit places a priority over the feud between the families. The two young lovers obtain a selfish mindset as they are influenced by the strength of their love. When they decide to be conjoined together in marriage, they gave up their decision to be responsible for their actions. This selfish act should have been thoroughly talked through, however, without this consultation, the two completely disregarded the maximum consequences that could have occurred. While Romeo and Juliet performed these self-centered and egoistic acts, decisions were annihilated as they started to obtain prejudiced and selfish thoughts. As these young lovers commit said acts, they engage in the activation consequences as they must attain happiness for their own satisfaction. This fulfillment of their love together is the set objective as they continue to achieve this goal.
In order to obtain unrealistic goals of contentment, individuals attempt all for the fulfillment of their desperate desire. Irrational decisions are thought of and performed when their contentment is not yet reached but wanted. Tybalt’s death is held accountable by Romeo “As for that offense/ Immediately we do exile him hence”. After knowing that they two lovers could no longer be together, they panic at the realization that they will not be able to meet each other again in Verona. With this impulsive mentality, the two desperately looked for a solution to their life crisis. Without thinking about others, Romeo had not taken into consideration that even after Romeo and Juliet had gotten married, it did not mean that the two family’s dispute was automatically corrected and resulted to the sacrifice of their marriage. Juliet’s love and affection towards Romeo had been very longing as she expresses her need for him during the comparison of the nightingale and the lark. Juliet projects her need for Romeo to remain by insisting that it is still night and dark, for he can remain next to her for longer. However since it is inevitable for the morning sun to seize to rise, the desperation in her tone is evident and if she did not let him go, this would have threatened his life. She attempts all in order to attain more of Romeo’s presence with this irrational decision based on their idealistic future and happiness. The envisionment of the two’s