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Impulsive In Romeo And Juliet

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There are multitudes of opinions that one can have after reading William Shakespeare’s version of Romeo and Juliet. While some finish the play thinking that Romeo and Juliet are truly in love, others feel that they act too impulsively. However, there are a variety of aspects within the play that suggest that the two lovers are superficial in their ideas of love for each other. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters shows signs of impulsive and sometimes erratic behavior, such as when Romeo seems to exhibit strong infatuation with Juliet based on her looks, Romeo suggests marriage to Juliet after only knowing him for a couple of hours, and both of their irrational preoccupations with suicide. Romeo’s immaturity towards the …show more content…

This scene had been foreshadowed by the Prologue. Four days of mayhem pass resulting in six people ending up slaughtered, from Romeo and Juliet’s first meeting to their tragic suicide, to their secret wedding to Romeo’s banishment. Their acts of pure impulse lead to the fact that they are more blinded by lust than love, with no real intimation of a real, genuine romance. “What’s here? A cup closed in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.— O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after! I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, To make me die with a restorative. Thy lips are warm” (5.3.170)! Throughout the play, whenever something goes wrong, the very first thought of Romeo and Juliet is to commit suicide. Juliet threatened to commit suicide if Friar Lawrence’s plan did not work. Romeo threatened to commit suicide when he learned of his banishment. On multiple other occasions, suicide seemed to have been a go-to option when any scheme did not end well. This is not normal, and shows that Romeo and Juliet may actually have something very wrong with the inside of their heads. If the scene was switched from Verona, Italy to a little town on the east side of Chicago, the realization would come to be that these people would be locked in a rubber room and put into straightjackets. Considering suicide every time one

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