Examples Of Passion In Romeo And Juliet

Have you ever felt so angry or disliked someone so much, to the point where you have the need to cause that person harm, even if you don’t know why you or the people around you dislike them? William Shakespeare portrays what could happen if this anger is taken to the extreme in his story Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is a story of two teenagers who fall in love. The problem is, their two families have a long lasting hatred towards each other, causing conflicts with Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. Due to their families’ hatred and anger towards each other, Romeo and Juliet come up with a plan so that they can be together, resulting in their deaths. While shakespeare does suggest that anger can be a powerful feeling, he also implies that anger and hate can cause people to do dangerous things and go out of control. Taken together, these show us that hate and anger can cause people to become dangerous and cause harm and destruction to themselves and the people around them.

When someone loses or doesn’t get the affection from the person they love, they often take extreme measure. In the text as Benedict states, “And when rejected, some people contemplate stalking, homicide,suicide. This drive for romantic love can be stronger than the will to live.”In act 5, scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo gets the news of Juliet being dead, so his plan is to join her in death. He tells the apothecary to break the law because it doesn’t help with anything. To relate to his situation, the law cares nothing about his love, and so he’s breaking it. Romeo buys poison because he knows he wouldn’t be able to survive without her. When we have lost the person we love there is a feeling of emptiness and a person feels as though they

The suicide committed by both Juliet and Romeo demonstrates their blinding love and how they would rather love each other or not live at all. For example Romeo says,”Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe. That unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean abhorrèd monster keep. Thee here in dark to be his paramour? For fear of that, I still will stay with thee.” Romeo says that we would rather die with Juliet than live without her. This is a very powerful moment in the play, because it resembles that love is a poison that can kill. In reality, it is very unlikely to be able declare your love for someone only after three days. Truthfully, I believe that Romeo and Juliet didn’t love each other but fell in the love with the idea of each other, making both of them make ignorant decisions. Romeo and Juliet die because their young foolish love possessed them to do rash unintelligent things. In addition, this is another scene that demonstrates love's

However, at the party he meets Juliet for the first time, and immediately falls in love with her: “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Romeo, who was in love with Rosaline until a moment ago, completely forgets about her and is now all focused on Juliet. But what is very surprising is not the fact that he is in love with his enemy’s daughter, the astonishing thing is the speed at which he falls in love with her. Soon, in fact, he and Juliet kiss each other: “Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.” However, Romeo’s characteristics to love so deeply Juliet is just a symbol of his lacking the capacity of moderation for intense feelings of all kind. Had Romeo stopped himself from being so deeply caught up by Juliet’s beauty, the tragedy would have never happened.

He sees love as much more than simply physical, like Mercutio does, but unlike Benvolio, he does not understand how to handle the heartbreak that comes with love. “Th’ exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine” (Act 2 Scene 2 Line 134). Right after meeting Juliet, Romeo sneaks to her house and asks her to marry him. This was simply out of impulse, as just before the party, he was still heartbroken over the fact that Rosaline wanted to become a nun. But as soon as he saw Juliet, he “fell in love”. “Here's to my love… with a kiss I die” (Act 5 Scene 3 Lines 119 and 120). Here, Romeo kills himself because he thought that JUliet was dead. He believed that he was so in love with her that he could not live without her. Romeos irrational behavior ultimately lead to his demise. Although Romeo is a male character, he was very sensitive and had many feminine traits. Shakespeare created Romeo this way to show that it was okay for men to feel attached in love, and so that anybody in the audience that felt similarly to him would be able to

As the story of Romeo and Juliet further progresses, Romeo’s true character becomes more and more apparent; he seems to act solely by impulse. Romeo acts moreso with his emotions, and sudden thoughts than his brain which stores reason and logic. This causes for tragedy and unfortunate circumstance by the end of the poem. This shows how impulsive he is in most of his decisions and how he tends to be very dramatic in everything that he does. When Romeo discovers that Juliet is dead, he almost immediately dramatically decides to drink poison, to kill himself. “Here’s to love, O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick - thus with a kiss I die.” Which shows how quickly he makes wrash and dramatic decisions without thinking it through. If Romeo had not been so careless and impulsive in his decision, Juliet would have awoken and they would both still be alive.

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” said Juliet implying that Romeo’s being a Montague makes them enemies. Romeo didn't listen to Friar Laurence about not getting married. “Is Rosaline whom you didn't love so dear, so soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” Friar says that what Romeo feels toward Juliet is simply a crush and nothing more. Lastly Romeo was the one to drink the poison. “Come bitter poison come unsavory guide!” making him responsible for his own

As Shakespeare composes this tragic love story “Violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and power, / Which as they kiss consume” (2.6.9). In the play Romeo and Juliet an enchanted love leads to violent ends and consumes two people’s lives until their powerful death. When Romeo first lays eyes on the gorgeous Juliet it is love at first sight. Though their love is authentic and empowering, it is also entirely banned. William Shakespeare writes this masterpiece with much delight but also great sorrow. Romeo and Juliet is the most abiding love story of all time. Shakespeare uses many literary devices in his works. Throughout this story the character Juliet changes remarkably. Shakespeare provides evidence for

At first glance, Romeo’s love for Juliet seems to be intense and powerful. He loves Juliet to such an extent that he is unable to live without her and would take his own life. However, this view of Romeo’s love is not entirely valid. The fact that Romeo goes on about his love for Juliet in his dramatic monologue and kills himself almost immediately suggests that he is irrational. This is seen in the following lines of the monologue: “Here’s to my love! [Drinks.] O true apothecary! / Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. [Dies.]” (5.3.119-120). In these lines, drug provides an allusion to a pattern that Romeo exhibits in earlier parts of the play: he is driven by the idea of being in love. At first, he is in love with Rosaline and is heartbroken by her rejection. In a day, however, he falls in love with Juliet at first sight and almost right away desires to marry her. In these examples, he acts rashly based on the idea of love. Romeo’s true drug has been his tendency to romanticize. After realizing Juliet’s supposed “death,” he takes his own life instead of savoring the moments with Juliet in real

Romeo’s trust in fate, his impatience, and his impulsiveness contributes to the tragedy of the two lovers greatly. Romeo is wholly dependent on fate maintaining a balance in his life. He puts all trust in “he that hath the steerage of my course” (1.4.119) and urges fate to continue “On”(1.4.120) directing his life. He seems to abandons all common logic and goes to great lengths for his own lusty desires, while falsely convincing himself that fate is the sole power controlling his destiny. He puts too much trust into the security of fate and ends up giving up his free will in exchange for a cruel fate. In addition to his fatalistic views, Romeo is very impulsive and fickle, which causes his relationship to be “too rash”(2.2.125) and “too sudden” (2.2.125). Once he lays his eyes on Juliet, he “...[forgets] to think of” (1.1.233) Rosaline and decided then and there that he “ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” (1.5.60) therefore saying that Rosaline is not as “exquisite” (1.1.238) as he said she was before. When Juliet comes into his line of sight, he quickly diverts all his affection towards her, rather than the woman whom he dearly loved a few moments before. To many viewers, Romeo’s devotion to Juliet seems to be an admirable trait, but ultimately, it is this devotion and impulsive love that leads to his destruction. His emotions overrun his thoughts, and his first reaction upon hearing of Juliet’s death is to “lie with thee [Juliet] tonight” (5.1.37). His love for Juliet causes him to

“Romeo and Juliet” is a famous play written by William Shakespeare about two teenagers who fall in love; although it may be seen as a love story, it can also be seen as a story about anger and hate. In Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet”, the theme of anger is represented through violence and verbal anger. Violence is shown mainly through Tybalt, Romeo and Paris and verbal anger is clear through the experiences of Capulet and his contact between Juliet and Tybalt.

Denton Snider, an American Scholar claims, “Romeo and Juliet are destroyed by their own love...just as the passion of hate, the intensity of love’s passion blots out reason and self-control and leads to destructive behavior.” (Kerschen 2). To put it briefly, Snider believes Romeo and Juliet are in fault for their own deaths. Love can make people do strange things, but there is a bigger picture in this situation. Romeo and Juliet’s affiliation was forbidden. Inevitably, something big, maybe even death, would’ve happened as a consequence to them being together. It was their love that made Juliet acquire help from Friar Laurence to fake her own death. In the same way, when Romeo asked the Apothecary to sell him an elixir, to end his life by the side of Juliet. Their love did have a part in their death, but they wouldn’t have had to end their lives, if their relationship wasn’t

The audience witnesses Romeo’s immaturity early in the play after Rosaline breaks up with him. He was depressed, heartbroken, and speaks as if he would rather not be alive. In act 1 Scene 1 Benvolio, Mercutio, and Romeo are all talking about Rosaline and Romeo states “She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, To merit bliss by making me despair: She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow Do I live dead that live to tell it now.” Romeo talks as if the world is ending. He also says, “ Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes” He is suffering from severe heartbreak and feels pain from his breakup. He blubbering like a child throughout

Each person has a hobby or interest that entertains them throughout life, although in certain circumstances the importance of the activity becomes remarkably strong that it is an addiction and takes over the life of that person, also known as a ruling passion. A ruling passion can have both a positive and negative impact on a person, for example it can give a person a sense of euphoria but also, a feeling of despair and helplessness. William Shakespeare recognizes this concept in his play, Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are displayed as a love struck couple who are both willing to do whatever it takes to be together. Their ruling passion, love, is what is helping overcome their ancient dispute between their two families.

When reviewing Romeo and Juliet it turns out that Romeo is really romantic not only to Juliet, but also his first love Rosaline, for that reason later on Romeo is killed because of his romanticness. At the beginning, Romeo falls in love with Rosaline though she does not love him, so Romeo was downhearted until meeting Juliet. Furthermore, Romeo went and get the poison, after hearing that Juliet is dead then, head straight to the tomb where Juliet body’s placed and died by her side. Even Though, some readers might believe that Romeo die because he don't want to be alone, the action proves that Romeo would die for anybody he loves. Essentially, Romeo is killed because he is too romantic.