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With proper guidance, experience, and wisdom comes wise decisions, without these comes regretful ones. Lack of knowledge often leads youth to act hastily resulting in disastrous outcomes, as shown in Romeo and Juliet by many characters. First of all Tybalt shows signs of one who makes decisions based on honour and also his ego. While Juliet represents a youth who makes decisions based on her wants and needs. Also Mercutio demonstrates youth who make decisions with the mind set that they are invincible.

To Start Tybalt makes decisions with the mind set that he is to honour his name and also himself, he acts before he thinks. “ Why art though drawn among these heartless hinds?/ Turn thee, Benvolio look upon thy death”( I.I.60-61 ). Often one sees Tybalt ask questions when he never actually cares about the answers. He accuses others of dishonouring his family and draws. Furthermore it would seem that Tybalts mind is always on making a name for himself and his family, and not on the consequences.

This by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier boy.
What dares the slave
Come hither, cover’d with an antic face
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
Now by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike him dead I hold it not sin.(I.v.51-62)
Tybalt is constantly assuming the worst of the Montagues, when in all reality Romeo was not there to make a mockery of anyone. Tybalt seems to justify his actions in a away that makes sense only to himself. Later in the book, one sees Tybalt in his most hasty and mentally weak moment when he sets out to kill Romeo and whoever gets in his way. Even with Romeo’s protest not to fight, Tybalt is not one to back down. His killing of Mercutio was thoughtless and sent Tybalt to his grave. Tybalt lacked the patience to listen and think, as many youths often do.

Another character who shows the disastrous decisions a youth can make in young...