Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a tragedy play that is centered around the relationship of two teenagers. They are madly in love, but their family members prohibit them from establishing an easy relationship. Romeo, the male teenager, is the one who starts the relationship between the two. Romeo’s personality causes him to act quickly without much thought, thus moving the play along. The Nurse, who is Juliet’s caretaker, has impulsive behavior that greatly influences Juliet. Also, Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet, exhibits impetuous behavior. There is impetuous behavior coming from both of the families which makes up the play. The Nurse, Romeo, and Lord Capulet exhibit impetuous behavior, and it drives the major events of the play. …show more content…
He exhibits this this impetuousness through quickly forgetting about Rosaline. One minute he is madly in love with her, but the next minute he has moved on to Juliet. Friar Lawrence shows how old age comes with wiseness, because he can’t even believe that Romeo has already moved on from Rosaline by saying, “God pardon sin! Wast thou with Rosaline?”(II.iii.47) After dating Juliet, Romeo decides quickly that he wants to marry her. One could argue, that his impetuousness essentially causes Juliet’s death. Once he thinks that Juliet is dead, without much thought he immediately kills himself. Then when Juliet awakes, she kills herself as well since Romeo is dead. Since he did not take the time to examine Juliet and make sure she was definitely dead, he acted incautious and killed
Why do you think Romeo committed suicide? “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare is a story of two lovers, in the city of Verona, Italy, both part of opposing families. Romeo Montague and his new lover Juliet Capulet both eventually kill themselves because they can no longer see each other, then Romeo hear falses new about Juliet and kills himself. Romeo is very impulsive throughout the text because he makes decisions quickly. He makes decisions using his heart instead of his mind, leading to his unnatural death.
In his play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare sets quite a high standard for romance and tragic novels after his time. The two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, have a secret, forbidden affair due to the fact that their families are long-time rivals. They seek Friar Lawrence to marry them. Shortly after their marriage, a brawl erupts between Romeo, Mercutio, and Tybalt with the final result of Mercutio being slain by Tybalt, who is then slain by Romeo. As a punishment, the Prince then publicly announces Romeo’s banishment.
Romeo and Juliet is a romantic tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is about two young children from feuding families that fall in love. In only a few days of meeting each other they get married, Romeo gets banished and Juliet is forced to marry Paris. Juliet then fakes her death to stop the marriage but Romeo thinks it’s genuine so he kills himself. Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo dead, so she suicides as well.
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses the decisions of Romeo, which are influenced by emotions to demonstrate that young people are impulsive. Shakespeare displays Romeo’s hastyness and impulsiveness when he begs Friar Laurence to marry him to Juliet. Just a few hours ago, Romeo was mooning over Rosaline, but immediately after meeting Juliet he decides to ask the friar to “...marry us[Romeo and Juliet] today”. Romeo has only met Juliet twice in the same day, and that in that same day wants to get married to her! This demonstrates the rushedness of Romeo in the form of love.
Romeo claimed to have fallen in love at first sight with Juliet, and forgot all about his love for the fair Rosaline in a number of minutes. After Romeo sees Juliet, Romeo says, “Her beauty is too good for this world; she's too beautiful to die and Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.” Act I, Scene V- Lines 42-44. Romeo says this because he believes that she is so beautiful; that she should be forever young. Another example is when Romeo says, “Did my heart love till now?
Romeo and Juliet is a well-known play, which was written by William Shakespeare in 1594. A lot of different actors have performed this play throughout the years. One the most important characters in the play has to be Romeo because if wouldn’t have come up to Juliet the play would have been really different. Romeo is romantic, impulsive, and brave.
Have you ever had so much pride that you make decisions you know you should not have? Have you ever acted on emotions instead of reasons? In Romeo and Juliet both occurred, many times but they had to face the consequences. Pride and impulsive behavior are the human faults that led to Romeo and Juliet’s death and I am about to tell you
Romeo’s personality takes sharp turns throughout the play as rash decisions are made and their consequences start to take form. Shakespeare portrays Romeo’s impulsivity through his attitudes toward Rosaline and Juliet, as well as his change in tone and humour throughout the play. Shakespeare sets the stage with an atmosphere full of unbalance and tension to drive Romeo to make impulsive decisions, leading the plot to spiral out of control and Romeo to bring his own demise. In the play, Romeo seeks the attention
William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet” is about, two young people falling in love two different rivaling households. Having faced the utmost odds, Romeo and Juliet fall in love upon first sight, and pursue each other. However, while trying to be together, they make some unfortunate decisions that ultimately lead to the tragic end. In the story
Romeo and Juliet is a well-known play written by William Shakespeare. Even though it is famous for being a love story, Shakespeare demonstrates that rebellion is closely tied together either it through the characters: Juliet, Romeo and Tybalt. By defying their families, authority and society's expectations, they set in motion the events in this tragedy. Romeo’s rebellion against society's expectations and his own family, the Montagues, is because of his love. His love of Rosaline is his first demonstration of defiance.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two lovers who are in separate families that hate each other. The action starts out when Romeo Montague crashes the Capulet’s party, and he meets Juliet Capulet. After the party Romeo stalks/listens to Juliet and finds out how she feels about him. When Juliet finds out that Romeo was listening the whole time, she says
Romeo makes a lot of stupid decisions that gets Juliet killed but I only need two to get my point across. Romeo shows his impulsiveness in his relationships with women, he seems to be unable to control his emotions when it comes to love. In the beginning of the play Romeo claims that he loves Rosaline and is depressed because Rosaline doesn’t love him back. Mercutio gets Romeo to go to the Capulet Ball so that he can cheer him up by finding a new girl that can peak his interests and the moment he sees Juliet he falls into deep and
The night before the party where Romeo and Juliet met, Romeo had been crying over his ex girlfriend Rosaline. However, after meeting Juliet he was not upset at all about Rosaline. When asked by his pastor if he had been with Rosaline all night, Romeo stated “With Rosaline, father? No, I have forgotten that girl and all the sadness she brought me”(Shakespeare). Friar Lawrence responded with “Have you given up so quickly on Rosaline, whom you loved so much?
In a romantic comedy, two people will fall in love at first sight, with everything working out at the end. However, this is not possible in a tragedy. The tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare tells the tale of a couple’s forbidden love and how it leads to many consequences, which are caused by impulsive decisions. One consequence is the couple having to hide their love from their families and friends. Another is the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet The story of Romeo and Juliet was originally written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1591 and 1595 and then being published in 1597. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy between two star crossed lovers whose deaths end the feud between their families. Although the death of Romeo and Juliet resulted in the end of the feud between the two families the death of Romeo and Juliet could have been avoided if it was not for Romeos flaws. Romeo is a very impulsive person.