Impulsiveness In Romeo And Juliet

In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers take their lives after their family feud reignites . A variety of decisions along with circumstance no one person could account for set the story of Romeo and Juliet up to be a tragedy. Many of the decisions in the play are made quickly and while emotions are running high, so frequently they result in bad outcomes. So, the rash and impulsive decisions made by men in Romeo and Juliet create the problems within the play.

Reckless actions lead to untimely deaths. In Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, both protagonists fight for their hopeless love. Bloodshed and chaos appear inevitable in fair Verona; Romeo and Juliet come from enemy households, the Montegues and the Capulets, who have sworn to defeat one another. The young and handsome Romeo weeps over his unrequited love for Rosaline, until he lays his eyes on Juliet. Strong and independent, Juliet seeks to escape her family’s will to marry her off to Paris, a kinsman of the Prince. Fate ties these adolescents’ lives together binding them to witness the ill-fortunes of Romeo and Juliet’s love. Romeo and Juliet prove themselves woefully impulsive through their words and actions, which ultimately

Romeo and Juliet throughout the story, show an extreme sense of loyalty that goes along with their deep “love”. This loyalty leads them to kills themselves because they can not be with one another. Romeo is lamenting the “loss” of his wife when he says, “Beauty’s ensign yet/ Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, /And death’s pale flag is not advancèd there” (5.3.103-105). Romeo notices that Juliet does not even look dead. He says that “death’s pale flag is not advancèd” meaning the look of death has not come upon her yet. This makes his decision to kill himself even more rash because despite still seeing color in her, he drinks the poison anyways. He drinks the poison because of his loyalty and, dies unnecessarily because of the rashness his loyalty caused. Death had not “advancèd” on Juliet because moments after Romeo kills himself she wakes up. The Friar comes in and Juliet, distraught over Romeo’s death sends him away and says, “O, happy dagger,/ This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die” (5.3.174-175). Without even stopping to consider what has happened, she kills herself. She calls the dagger “happy” meaning it's good that she found it. She finds this dagger seconds after she learns Romeo is dead. Being so quick to kill herself is impulsive. Her use of the word “happy” shows that she wants to kill herself because she can not have Romeo. Her loyalty to Romeo gives her the incentive to commit suicide, a rash decision. To prove that people act rashly when they love someone Shakespeare uses Romeo and Juliet's tragic

Romeo and Juliet both suicide after seeing each other dead. After Romeo hears about Juliet’s death, he goes to her tomb to see her one last time and kiss her before he suicides. “Here’s to my love. O true apothecary,/Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die”(V.iii.119-120). Romeo should have overlooked his quick thoughts of suicide, and should have realized how much he still had to live for. The aftermath of this action was that both Romeo and Juliet both end up dead in the final tragedy. After Juliet sees Romeo dead, she decides to kill herself with a dagger. “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O, happy dagger,/This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die”(V.iii.174-175). This evidence is an example of the consequences that can occur after a hasty, sad-driven decision. If Romeo did not suicide while under the influence of his emotions, both Romeo and Juliet would have lived, and the ultimate, final tragedy of the play would have been avoided, but instead, Romeo’s emotions misguided him to choose the awful decision of suicide. These actions reveal how quickly sadness leads to horrendous repercussions due to the actions that it

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare was a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet face many conflicts such as their families absolutely hating each other. If anyone in either of the families finds quite a few of them will die. Romeo is very sensitive and impulsive during this time in his life. Romeo is going through a lot and needs to make tough decisions. Juliet acts childish and stubborn during this section of her life. Juliet also needs to make some life changing decisions during this part of her life. Neither of them know what they’re doing, and all they know is that they love each other. You can characterize both the characters Romeo and Juliet as rash, since they don’t do a lot of thinking before making a lot of decisions. Romeo and Juliet don’t

Love is a blinding powerful spell that makes others act helplessly without studying all of the options can result in an impulsive decision. Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare tells a story about two households, Capulets and Montagues, who are enemies. Their two children, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. Being blinded by love, Romeo and Juliet don’t think straight. Furthermore, Romeo and Juliet are blinded by their love and make impulsive life threatening decisions. Throughout the play there are many moments that demonstrate that love is a spell as Romeo and Juliet fall for eachother.

“Then I’ll brief. [Finding Romeo’s dagger] O, happy dagger. This is thy sheath. [Stabs herself] there rust, and let me die.[Dies].” (Act 5 scene 3 page 82). Throughout, Romeo and Juliet take their relationship a little too fast, and they tend to make bad decisions. In the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, he ignites the idea that people should have more patience than haste. He exposes this by, having Romeo kill himself for Juliet and having Juliet kill herself for Romeo dying for her.

Juliet chooses to fake her, and one of Romeo’s men catch word of it and deliver the news to Romeo. As Romeo races back to Verona, Friar John was on his way to deliver the truth to Romeo but couldn’t make it to him in time. Romeo breaks into the Capulet tomb to see Juliet for himself. When he does see that Juliet is “dead” he does not choose to live any longer and decides to end his life by drinking a poison. When Juliet awakes and sees Romeo dead next to her she cries and tries to drink from the bottle the poison was in so she could die as well since there was nothing left in the bottle she decided to grab Romeo’s dagger and stab herself, and so she

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.

Rushing and taking impulsive actions can be goo sometimes, but mostly can lead to a downfall. I Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, readers enter he city of Verona and observe two lover struggle to keep there love alive. In William Shakespeare’s Rome and Juliet, the lover’s own decisions to rush marriage, family member deaths, and dying for each other revel how impulsive choices lead to their untimely death.

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, many characters meet their tragic end as a result of a plethora of factors, from old rivalries to new love. It is a tragic story of two lovers, destined to complete each other, but also to end a bitter feud through their deaths (Prologue.3-6). However, if the blame had to be ascribed to one person in particular, that person would be Romeo Montague. Throughout the play, Shakespeare showcases Romeo’s irrationality and poor decision making, leading to the gruesome deaths of his loved ones. Romeo is most to blame for the tragic slew of deaths because he is oblivious, quick to act, and too urgent in his relationship.

Many parents or adults wonder why adolescents act the way they do and want answers as to why. Numerous of these actions adolescents make are because of the prefrontal cortex(PFC). The PFC isn’t developed until the mid 20s which causes teenagers to lack on seeing the consequences before they make a risky or impulsive decision. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, he illustrates that adolescents show impulsivity, decision making, and risk taking.

Adolescents make more rash decisions than any other age group. This behavior linked with teenagers leads to risky actions because of the design of the teenage brain. On the flip side, the blueprint of the teenage brain permits teens to pick up new skills by seeking out different adventures. The teenage characters in Romeo and Juliet pose as an accurate representation of typical teenage decision making. Although this is consistent behavior with this age group, based upon scientific findings of adolescent brain growth, brain maturity, and pleasure drive, teenagers like Romeo and Juliet should be held responsible for their risk-taking and impulsive behavior.

“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives the many” - Phaedrus. This was the case with Juliet Capulet. She may appear to the crowd as a radiant damsel, but it was what was inside of her that produced the outcome of Romeo and Juliet. The tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet is based on two young lovers from feuding families that despise each other. Only a few days after they meet they get married, separated, and then they both ending up committing suicide because they couldn’t see each other. Throughout the story Juliet exhibits a multitude of trates. Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, is a character that displays impulsiveness, foolhardiness, and tenacity.