Impulsivity In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

The deaths and conflicts of Romeo and Juliet are thoroughly frustrating, woven around lies, love, and control. Each generation reading the classic Shakespeare play draws different conclusions and opinions on the lover’s tragedy. The faults and flaws of many characters shifting and altering the events resulting in six deaths. Romeo, the main character rather impulsive and quick to act, makes decisions that causes foreseeable conflicts to occur. As bodies drop and conflicts rise society is left to determine their mistakes. Romeo’s infatuations, and recklessness abandons critical thinking that allows death and hate to grow. Henceforth, Romeo is in fact responsible for the deaths in the classic Shakespeare

Shakespeare wrote the play to show how to young people could falling in love could create havoc between feuding families. Romeo, a romantically inclined, emotional character who falls deeply in love with Juliet, ends this feud. To behave impulsively is to act upon or to be swayed by emotions rather than by reason. It is Romeo’s impulsivity that in the end, affected both households with death and so much

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.

He isolates himself from the merrymaking both socially and physically in his refusal to dance and banter with Mercutio. Upon request by Mercutio to dance, Romeo replies by saying ‘I have a soul of lead’, connotations of lead being heavy, therefore disabling him to move, but also poisonous. This idea sustains the theory that Rosaline has deprived and made him suffer, to the degree of poison, also supporting Romeo’s melodramatic nature. Romeo spends his time, not pursuing Rosaline, but despairing ‘under love's heavy burden I do sink’. Once again, Romeo’s over metaphoric and dramatic nature describes how he is being weighed down by the symbolic weight of being out of love. It begs the question, is Romeo simply in love with the sadness of being out of it.

“Romeo: Tut! I have lost myself; I am not here: This is not Romeo, he’s some other where. Benvolio: Tell me in sadness, who is that you love? Romeo: What, shall I groan and tell thee? Benvolio: Groan? Why, no; But sadly tell me who. Romeo: Bid a sick man in sadness make his will. Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill! In sadness cousin, I do love a woman.” (1.1.190-197) In the quote, Benvolio can see that Romeo is distraught, and attempts to find what is bothering him. Romeo is saddened by being denied the love of Rosaline, who he believed to be his true love. Instead of attempting to resolve the issue in their relationship, he quickly turned and dramatically spoke of her to Benvolio. This is just one of the many examples of impulsivity in adolescence in the play of Romeo and Juliet.

While Romeo and Juliet blame fate for the tragedy of their deaths, in the end, it is their own young and rash behavior that drives them to their end. Poison may have ended Romeo’s life, but it was his rash and emotionally-driven actions that lead him to drink

He begs incessantly until Juliet relents, robbing her of her right to choose and setting their downfall in motion. Romeo, moody and filled with reckless angst, causes his own demise, that of his lover (or rather, object of attraction), and of his

Romeo’s immature and rashful actions costs him and Juliet’s lives because of his inability to cope with the truth. Particularly, it is when he acts hastily upon finding out about Juliet’s death by vowing to kill himself too, prompting unwarranted deaths. Near the end of the play, Romeo is banished from Verona and has to rely on his servant, Balthasar, to transmit to him about the news of his wife there. When he found out that Juliet had died, he dismisses Balthasar and says to himself, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. / Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift / To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!” (V.i.36-38). Romeo immediately decides to be in the deceased state as Juliet, which he finds amusing because of how easily

Shakespeare depicts Romeo as suicidal, “do I live dead that I live to tell you now?” This is another use of hyperbole, this makes Romeo seem over-dramatic and it also shows the extent of Romeo’s sadness. Romeo says he is so sad that living is like death to him. Romeo is also described as pessimistic, “I have lost myself; I am not here. This is not Romeo, he’s somewhere else.”

Romeo is usually an outspoken jolly young man. Nonetheless, his behaviour changes drastically. His is confused and upset due to being infatuated with Rosaline as he says ‘’I have lost myself’’. He admits that he is not himself. He’s fickle and depressed. ‘’ Is the day so young?’’. This quote also indicates that Romeo is ever so fanatical, that

Although Romeo normally have romantic and loving characteristic, abrupt and emotionally he decided to revenge the death of Mercutio by killing Tybalt resulting to influence the tragic ending. Critics recognize that Romeo is characterized as lover not a fighter however his tragic flaw was what initiated the murder. The author of Shakespeare for students: Critical Interpretations… states that ‘Romeo's passion, once it is ignited

In the play Romeo’s hasty decisions are shown from the beginning of the play. Romeo makes “himself an artificial night” (1.1.134) as he cannot be with Rosaline, who has “forsworn to love” (1.1, 217). But as soon as he sees Juliet a “beauty too rich for use” (1.5, 46) he declares he “forgot [the] name” (2.3, 46) of Rosaline. He changes his mind very quickly about his love, but his flaws are more clearly seen in the final scene. When he finds out about the death of Juliet he quickly rushes to the Apothecary to seek “a dram of poison.../ that the life-weary taker may fall dead” (5.1, 60-62). His impulsive decision to kill himself forces Juliet to stab herself than to live on without Romeo. The result of his decisions result in the tragic loss of both protagonists. His flaws are an important factor in the tragedy, but the fate which is signified by Romeo predicts his own

Romeo’s infatuations with Juliet leads to a hasty decision to give up everything he owns in order to marry her.. This is a rash and careless thing to do and is bad judgment. Romeo did not think about the repercussions that would happen when he abandoned his family for his enemy. Romeo had derived a new mindset “too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden.” This way of thinking produces a loss of self-control for Romeo.

A tragedy in literature is a tragic hero who falls due to a tragic flaw. Romeo’s immature personality has a huge effect on the end of the play. Romeo never thought before he acted, causing things to go wrong. For instance, before he killed Tybalt, he was angry in the moment not thinking about what would happen. When Romeo met Juliet he was in love with another girl. From here, his judgements eventually lead to his death. His tragic flaw is his unripe personality. Romeo enters this risky relationship as a young and carefree man, who doesn’t realize what could happen during this. The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare fits perfectly with the definition of a tragedy, beginning with two hopeless teens and ending in their death by their own violation.

There is also an impulsiveness to both the generations, Romeo and Juliet jump the gun and get married within a couple of weeks declaring their love for each other. When Romeo finds out that Juliet is “dead” he straight away goes to an apothecary and says “let me have a dram of poison” (5,1,3) to end his own life so he can lay with Juliet for eternity. He bases his actions entirely on his emotions at the time and not really thinking of the long term effect. Another instance where Romeo is impulsive is when Romeo’s best friend Mercutio jumps in front of him and gets stabbed by tybalt, Romeo is filled with rage and continues attacks and