...of impulsive behavior between one or two characters in the play? William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, who was extensively known as the greatest writer in the English language. In this essay I will be presenting the consequences of impulsive behavior between the characters ‘Romeo and ‘Friar Lawrence’ in the famous play ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Romeo and Juliet is a Shakespearean classic that is widely considered to be enduring and timeless and speaks about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families after the tragic end between the Capulet’s and Montague’s.introduce essay question Romeo validates the impulsive behavior in the Capulet feast. When he first meets Juliet and kisses Juliet at the Capulet’s party, she tells him “you kiss by the’ book,” hence he kisses according to the rules of lovego into detail-link to rosaline. Romeo promptly falls in love before he even gets to know her ‘If I profane with my unworthiest hand / this holy shrine ‘’ Romeo sees himself as unworthy of Juliet and that any offer to kiss or touch her would be discourteous. Juliet is a “holy shrine which also illustrates that she is sacred, pious in religion. In this quote Shakespeare uses metaphor ‘unworthiest hand’ go into detail-important quoteto propose that Romeo is unworthy of Juliet because she is infrequent. Romeo is not thinking sensibly here in Act 1 Scene 5 and is acting impulsively, because he does not get to know Juliet first...
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...Bella De Freitas De Freitas 1 English 1 Ms. Cutright 29 May 2018 Impulsive and Naive Decisions When put in a conflict or a tough situation, people make impulsive and naive decisions. Many novels use a character who demonstrates these qualities. In the tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo’s impulsive and naive behavior leads to many consequences and deaths. Romeo makes an impulsive decision to kill Paris and himself. When Romeo encounters Paris at the Capulet’s tomb, he tells him, “By heaven, I love thee better than myself,/ For I come hither armed against myself”(5.3.64-65). Romeo‘s impulsiveness was fueled by his love for Juliet. His actions were not one of a rational person but of someone who carried a great...
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...With every story comes an impulsive character, and in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that character is Romeo. For example Romeo’s rash actions caused his own demise. Upon hearing about the death of Juliet, Romeo immediately started to make plans to commit suicide. If Romeo sits down and thinks about his actions instead of acting the way he does, then he will not die. Romeo’s impulsive behavior also had negative consequences on the lives of Mercutio, Tybalt, and Juliet. The ill-fated Mercutio is one of the people who suffered by Romeo’s impulsive decisions. It all started when Romeo and his friends decided to go and crash the Capulet’s party. While at the party Tybalt spotted Romeo. He is enraged. After the party had passed Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel, but Romeo does not want to fight. Tybalt does not give up, he continues to insinuate a fight with Romeo, with little success. Then one day...
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...are going to get a tattoo and believe it is the right choice. Who is the adult and who is the teenager? While William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet suggests that teenagers in the 1600s made impulsive decisions, many teenagers today still struggle with that issue. Shakespeare’s...
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...“Tybalt, the reason that I have for loving you helps me overcome the anger I should really feel… I see you don’t really know me” (Shakespeare, 3.1). This quote shows that overcoming differences is a hard quality to have. When being in someone else’s shoes it is easy to comprehend other troubles. This quote relates to the theme of Romeo and Juliet because of the family’s differences that they have to overcome. Romeo is someone who acts quickly, loyal, and an impulsive character, and this leads to his death. Romeo impacts the events in many ways because he is one of the protagonists. Romeo is a character who acts out of vain multiple times and acts quickly. This leads to his inevitable death because he kills his wives’ cousin, Tybalt, and this...
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...Romeo and Juliet; the Story of Two Despondent Lovers Does love attract those who are similar to each other, or those who are disparate? People tend to look for those that are similar to them, but try to find differences that make them “special” from other people. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, an old family feud between two households keeps two lovers apart. Romeo and Juliet love each other so much, that they try to do everything they can think of to keep their family names from not letting them get together; this eventually leads to more conflicts and their demise. Both characters have significant roles in the play, and share many qualities, but also have compelling differences when viewed from the aspects of persistency, dramatic emotions,...
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...In the prologue of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare calls Romeo and Juliet "star crossed lovers", introducing from the opening minutes of the play the possibility that their tragic end was unavoidable. Fate is seen by many of the characters in Romeo and Juliet as the reason for their downfall. In truth, however, it is the character flaws and actions of Romeo, Juliet, and Lord Capulet that cause their deaths. One character who contributes greatly to the tragic end of Romeo and Juliet is in fact Romeo himself. The reason why Romeo is involved in the death of Juliet and himself is because of his impulsive and rash decision making. Romeo reveals this flaw to Friar Lawrence in this quote:"I stand on sudden haste"[Act 2 scene 3 line 93.] Friar Lawrence recognizes this flaw and reminds him to "Go wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast." This impulse leads Romeo to rashly marry his latest love, the thirteen year old daughter of an enemy. Impulsiveness also leads Romeo to hold such anger at Tybalt, who killed his cousin, that he kills him. This starts a period of unlucky events that follow. Firstly, it forces Prince Escalus to banish Romeo from Verona, which ultimately leads to Romeo committing suicide. Juliet, along with Romeo, plays a role in their death. In a speech on her balcony, Juliet says, "Leap to these arms untalked of and unseen so lovers can see to do their amorous rites"[Act 3, Scene 2, Line 7-8.] In this quote, Juliet makes it quite clear to the reader that she is...
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...what Romeo and Juliet did. Romeo and Juliet are victims of their own actions because of their young age. Every action they take is too rash and too unexpected. In the beginning, Romeo chooses to go to a Capulet party even though he is not invited to attend the celebration. Next, he chooses to marry Juliet, even though he only knew her for six hours. Lastly, Romeo chooses to die to be with Juliet forever. To begin, Romeo chooses to attend the Capulet party, which he is not invited to attend. His friends talk him into attending since he is suffering from a broken heart. “ I’ll go along, no such...
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...In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, two lovers in the city of Verona take their lives. Their unfortunate demise is a result of many factors; adult influences, fate, and the animosity between their families. However, the two lovers made all the decisions leading to their tragedy even though they knew the consequences of their actions. Romeo and Juliet make many bad decisions throughout the course of the play, deciding to get married the day after they met at the Capulet party, and killing themselves in their despair, which dooms themselves from the very beginning. Romeo’s impulsive nature led to him killing two men, and Juliet put bother her and Romeo’s lives at risk by taking the fateful potion.Knowing the consequences, they still made terrible...
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...‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a tragic love story written by William Shakespeare about two young star crossed lovers who live in Verona, Italy in the Middle Ages. One of the most important issues that these young loves come across quite often is that of choice. The real question is whether the characters have the ability to choose what they do or is it fate that decides it for them. The chorus introduces in the opening prologue that Romeo and Juliet are “star-crossed” and “death-marked”, and by stating this, Shakespeare gives us the climax of the play right away. In Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, it is not fate, but desperate and impulsive actions that bring about the downfall and the unfortunate ending of both Romeo and Juliet. In the Victorian Era, fate was known as the continuance of events that are out of human control, and determined by a supernatural power. By no means was the demise of Romeo and Juliet out their control. It happened because of the choices they themselves make....
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...determined fate. In the play of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, fate controls the character by using their fatal flaws against them, Romeo's fatal flaw is his impetuousness, Juliet’s fatal flaw is her impulsiveness, and Friar Lawrence's fatal flaw is that he is blinded by his goal to bring peace to Verona. Fate used Romeos fatal flaw of impetuousness in act 1 scene 4, Romeo reads out a guest list for a Capulet servant, but decides to go to the party himself, knowing the Capulet’s are his enemy and it may be the beginning of the end. “I fear too early, / for my mind misgives / some consequence yet hanging in the stars / shall bitterly begin his fearful date / with this night’s revels, / and expire the term / of a despised life closed in my breast / by some vile forfeit of untimely death. / But he that hath the steerage of my course, / Direct my sail, / Oh,/ lusty gentle men” (1.4. 108-115) this is where Romeo acknowledges that there is something or someone controlling his life, but fate uses his impetuousness to control him to go to the ball against his better judgment, which ultimately was the beginning of the end for Romeo. Furthermore near the end of the play, fate once again uses Romeo's impetuousness to control his life when Romeo downs a bottle of poison upon seeing Juliet, thinking she was dead, despite the fact that he noticed traces of life in her body. “Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair...
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...Shakespeare has shown decisions people make while in love, with the belief that the world is against them. The excerpt from the play, Romeo and Juliet, takes place by the balcony of the Capulet household. During the excerpt, Romeo is eavesdropping on Juliet, who is professing her love to him. Romeo then burst out of the shrubbery to confess his love for her. The message Shakespeare gets across the best is that in love couples act impulsively, when they feel the world does not want them to be together. While Juliet is dreaming aloud, she remarks that,”’ I’ll no longer be a Capulet”’(Romeo and Juliet 2.2.36). This quote illustrates that people in love act impulsively ,while the world does not want them to be together, because she is willing...
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...Emma Breitenstein Miss Raub 9 Honors English 16 May 2014 The Utter Infatuation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Over time, writing has become exceedingly prominent, and throughout generations it has tremendously improved, leaving behind some of the best literature pieces in history. Since writing began, many great authors, playwrights, and poets have emerged, contributing to the literary society and producing countless works of literature, some that are still read today. A few notable composers that left behind numerous classics include Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, and William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time due to his many great plays and his vast contribution to the English language. Some of his works include Hamlet, Othello, and the infamous Romeo and Juliet. Wrote in 1597, the tragic comedy tells the story of young Romeo and Juliet, who find themselves “in love at first sight”. Unfortunately for them, their love story goes awry when they learn their parents are mortal conflict between their parents, which ultimately caused their demise. Woven throughout the plot, many examples become present that show that the star-crossed lovers are not in love. It becomes clear Romeo and Juliet are merely infatuated with each other. The ill-fated couple focus only on each other’s physical appearances and are severely impulsive throughout the tragic story. “The play then impresses upon us the intensity of youthful love, at once...
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...In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet are doomed from the start, and the audience is completely aware of this from the prologue. “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” Romeo has an impulsive disposition, which guides his actions throughout the play and eventually leads to him take his own life. Romeo shows impulsiveness in several instances in Romeo and Juliet, proving that his impulsiveness is a very large part of him as a character, for example when he sees Juliet for the first time at the Capulet party. As soon as he sees Juliet, he pleads out “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” (I.V. 50-51) Romeo says all of this almost immediately after swearing that Rosaline is the most beautiful girl he’d ever seen and that Rosaline was his one and only true love. If he wouldn’t have ever been drawn in my Juliet’s beauty, he would’ve never been through everything that happens in the play. Also, when Romeo jumps the Capulet’s fence, Juliet demands that Romeo leave before her parents find him. He says to her, “With love’s light wings did I o’perch these walls/ for stony limits cannot hold love out, / therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.” (II.ii.66-69). Romeo doesn’t care if Juliet’s guards hurt him. Even though he could’ve easily died right then and there if the Capulets would’ve caught him, he wanted to be with Juliet. Romeo...
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...In ‘The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’ who is to blame for the outcome, the death of the young kids, the misunderstandings? Everything that went wrong? He had seemed to be the one that helped them through it, he did marry the two after all. But in the end it is Friar Lawrence to blame. He was the one that married them without parental consent, knowing that the two both came from families of a long standing feud. He thought he was just doing the job of the Friar. But he had seen that Romeo was fast to change his mind from Rosaline to Juliet in a matter of hours. Romeo says, “Then plainly know my heart’s dear love is set on the fair daughter of a rich Capulet; As mine on hers is set on mine, and all combined, save, what thou is mine, and must combine by holy marriage… That thou consent to marry us today.” (William Shakespeare page. 410) In which the Friar replied cleary in shock of his quick change, “Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here! Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken?” (William Shakespeare pg 410.) But he ends up marrying to two anyway, instead of going with his gut. That this was a bad idea....
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