Have you ever been so impulsive that you did something you regretted, like killing someone? Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet gives us an insane look at impulsivity and its dangers. Both Romeo and Juliet have caused death with their impulsiveness to others and to themselves. Impulsivity is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo’s impulsivity killed Tybalt, himself, and Juliet’s impulsivity caused her to kill herself. No one liked Tybalt. He was an arrogant character. He was mean, selfish, and always looking for a fight. However, that was no reason to kill him. In Act 3, Scene 1, Tybalt kills Romeo’s best friend, Mercutio. Romeo’s anger at his death clouds his judgment, and he kills Tybalt. Romeo’s actions were ignorant, but reasonable. …show more content…
He could be killed by the Prince and/or lose Juliet if he killed him. However, Romeo doesn’t think and kills him. His impulsiveness kills Tybalt, and Romeo is banished. Soon his banishment will lead to his and his love’s death. Though his response to Mercutio’s death was ignorant, it is understandable. We all have experienced times when our minds are clouded and our conscience is impaired, whether it was because of a close death or an infuriating experience. Romeo has never thought things through. He didn’t take time to think about his marriage to Juliet, or killing Tybalt. He made no exception to his own death. “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight...I do remember an apothecary...An if a man did need a poison now Whose sale is present death in Mantua, Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him” Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene 1). Romeo doesn’t think about buying the poison from the Apothecary. All he could think about was being with Juliet. A close death can lead us all to do the unthinkable. That’s why it is called unthinkable. We do not think when we do these regretful things. Juliet isn’t really dead. However, Romeo doesn't know
Tybalt caused this death by getting mad and taking revenge on Romeo. When he took revenge on Romeo, it meant he also, displayed immaturity to his faithful cousin, Juliet. Tybalt and Juliet grew up together. They had a close relationship. Tybalt took that away from them. The fact of the matter is, you shouldn’t be messing with love and happiness. Both Romeo and Juliet had that, and it was not to be punctured. Tybalt punctured
Of all the things that occur in Romeo and Juliet, the death of Tybalt is one of the most climatic parts of the story. Yet, this all started from another killing of a different person, Mercutio. Mercutio, a relative of the Prince and friend of Romeo, and Tybalt, nephew to Lady Capulet and Mercutio’s arch enemy, were in a heated conversion when Romeo walked in after getting married to Juliet and saw what was going on. Tybalt and Mercutio began to fight and Romeo tried to come in between them to stop the whole thing. Unfortunately, as Tybalt was under Romeo’s arms, he stabbed Mercutio and he died soon after. In all the rage, Romeo was furious that his friend was dead and starts to fight with Tybalt. Eventually, Romeo slays Tybalt and he falls to the floor and dies. Romeo runs away in agony before the Prince soon arrives at the scene of the fight with all the other citizens that were awakened by this fray to see what happened. Although Romeo is guilty of homicide, he is charged for manslaughter as he unlawfully killed a person in the heat of passion while defending Mercutio’s honor.
In his critical essay on Romeo and Juliet, Lois Kerschen portrays the idea that, “Killing Tybalt is a rash act that needed not have happened if Romeo had been better able to control himself” (Kerschen 3). Kerschen then goes on to explain that the reaction which caused the death of Tybalt was irrational and violent. It is accurate that if Romeo hadn’t overreacted to Mercutio’s death and killed Tybalt, he wouldn’t be banished. However, it was Tybalt that brought about the fight because he recognized Romeo at the Capulet party and “his presence there fuels Tybalt’s challenge to him the next day” (Kerschen 2). Tybalt wouldn’t have been angry and challenged Romeo in a duel if it weren’t for the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. Furthermore, Romeo didn’t want to carry on with battle when he was first challenged by Tybalt because now that he was married to Juliet, he thought it was wrong to harm his cousin-in law (Shakespeare Act III. Scene i. Page 132). Only because Tybalt killed Mercutio, Romeo thus killed Tybalt. The feud surely sparked the fight which henceforth resulted in Romeo’s banishment. If it weren’t for the feud, Tybalt wouldn’t have challenged Romeo to the dual, Tybalt wouldn’t have died, and Romeo wouldn’t have been banished. Because he was banished, he was unable to receive the letter from Friar Laurence regarding his plan. Therefore, he was unaware that Juliet wasn’t really dead and he
Tybalt was indefinitely one of the causes of Juliet’s death for multiple reasons. To begin with, he didn’t have to make a big deal about Romeo attending the Capulet party, then causing him to write a letter to Romeo explaining how he wanted to fight him. According to the text, Tybalt states, “This, by his voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy. What! Dares the slave come hither, covered with an antic face, to fleer and scorn at our solemnity?” (Act I Scene 5 Lines 52-56). If Tybalt never made a big deal out of it, neither Mercutio or Tybalt would have died and Romeo would not have been banished. This means Juliet would have never taken the
Joshua BaileyEnglishMarch 2, 2018Tybalt Character AnalysisRomeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare in 1597, is a highly influential play about the two characters falling into a forbidden love with one another, and how their strong desire to be together eventually led to their deaths. The character I will analyze is Tybalt, Juliet’squick-tempered first cousin, the main antagonist, Mercutio's killer, and Romeo’s rival. The way that Tybalt affected the outcome of the play, is by killing Mercutio in a sword fight, enraged by his death, Romeo fought Tybalt and killed him. That act eventually led to Romeo and Juliet’s demise. Romeo’s death was a suicide, after Juliet's supposed death, he went to Juliet’s tomb to see her one last time before committing
Romeo knew that Tybalt was Juliet’s cousins, and did not think about the consequences that were to come after his murderous act. Lois Kerschen in her critical essay about who is to blame, states, “Violence runs throughout the story, linking each event.” This suggests that Romeo’s violent act of murder, leads to one thing, which leads to another, which leads to Juliet’s death. Immediately after Romeo kills Tybalt, the prince appears and says, “And for that offence/ Immediately we do exile him hence.” (3.1.177-178). So, because of Romeo’s choice to kill Tybalt, he gets banished from Verona, and sent to Mantua. Since he is no longer in Verona, he is not allowed to see Juliet. If Romeo did not kill him, he would have been able to stay in Verona with Juliet. When the nurse goes into Juliet’s room to deliver the news that Romeo has killed her cousin, the nurse says about Romeo, “There is no trust, no faith, no honesty in men” (3.2.86-87) The nurse is right. How could Juliet trust Romeo anymore, because he was not respectful to her? He was being selfish when he kills Tybalt. He killed Tybalt out of pure anger from Mercutio’s death. When Juliet finds out what happened, she cries for Romeo, because she will not be able to see him again. Her tears of sadness for Romeo, get mistaken of tears for Tybalt, by the Capulets. The Capulets just want to make her happy, so they decide to have the marriage to Paris sooner. Juliet wants to do anything to get out of marrying Paris, so she decided to see the Friar, who came up with the potion plan. The plan did not work because of Romeo’s hastiness to kill himself so soon. That demonstrates how Kerschen’s idea can be used to blame Romeo. Romeo is mostly to blame because of his hasty decisions with love and illegal actions, but some may believe that others are most to
Irrational and impulsive decisions can often lead to great trouble as shown in Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence, a holy man, and a well-respected priest has made many decisions that could act as the cause of Romeo’s death. Romeo, after losing his love for Rosaline, met a Capulet named Juliet and he immediately fell in this forbidden love. Besides being a priest, Friar Laurence was a source for help and a man with knowledge as shown in the beginning of the play. As the play moved on, Friar Laurence has made many important decisions which later led to the suicide of Romeo. Besides agreeing to marry Romeo and Juliet, he gave a potion to Juliet which later decimated Romeo mentally. In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence is responsible for the death of Romeo because of his impulsive
Romeo is devastated when Tybalt kills Mercutio and when he was once advocating for peace he soon turns to violence. Romeo in a rage of anger and heedlessness runs after Tybalt to avenge his friend's death. Romeo’s fatal flaw is his impulsiveness and it is what brings his downfall. Romeo declares, “Now, Tybalt, take the ‘villain’ back again… Staying for thine to keep him company. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him”(3.1.130-134). As Flow asserts, “Romeo’s fatal flaw is impetuousness… He presents this fatal flaw again when he kills Tybalt Juliet's cousin”(3). Romeo makes many decisions in the play that help bring his and Juliet’s death. Many of Romeo’s decisions are made in haste and are not in the best interest of the two lovers. Romeo’s fatal flaw, carelessness is evident time and time again in the play but his hasty decision to kill Tybalt is arguably the most reckless. When Romeo kills Tybalt the chance of the lovers ever being able to be together is slim to none. Romeo killing Tybalt also starts the chain of events that lead to their deaths. It leads Friar Lawrence to come up with a foolish plan to prevent Juliet from killing herself the first time. The foolish plan ends up making
William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, aged 18, with whom he had twins Hamnet and Judith and Samantha. He was baptised on 26th April 1564 and died on 23rd April 1616. Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. In-between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as a writer and was widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and often called England's national poet. His works, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems.I will be analysing how Shakespeare presents the consequences of impulsive behaviour of Romeo and the Friar.
When Romeo is talking to himself before he drinks the poison to kill himself he says, “Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet, / Is crimson in thy lips and thy cheeks, / And deah’s pale flag is that advanced there” (V.iii. 94-96). Even though Romeo says that Juliet doesn’t look dead compared to the poor Tybalt, who is lying in peace right next to Juliet, he still goes through with the plan of killing himself. When Juliet wakes up, she sees Romeo dead and tells Friar Lawrence to leave. When Friar leaves, Juliet then kisses the body of Romeo, hoping to extract poison from his lips. After without any luck, Juliet then kills herself with Romeo's dagger. None of this would have happened if Tybalt didn't kill Mercutio and then having Romeo killing Tybalt then Romeo would have never gotten banished for this. After he got banished everything went downhill from there. Romeo’s poor mother even passed away from sadness after his banishment. It broke Lady Montague’s heart when she could not take care of her young Romeo anymore, and she fell into a deep depression before desperately passing
Throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet’s actions were causes of the deaths, but not the most important. Romeo and Juliet’s bad actions were influenced by either hatred or peer pressure, for example when Romeo became enraged by the cause of the death of his best friend Mercutio. This led up to Tybalt’s death, “This shall determine that! [they fight, Romeo kills Tybalt]” (3.1.137). So Romeo’s rash action had him
“When anger rises, think of the consequences” (Confucius). Romeo’s action of killing Tybalt would have been different if he had thought of how the outcome would affect his relationship with Juliet. Romeo never had the realization that bad choices lead to bad consequences until after he committed the offense. He created the problem of being separated from Juliet for longer than he could ever know. In addition to that, Romeo also let his vexation consume him, and lost control of his discernment. Romeo’s decision to kill Tybalt had most directly caused the tragic events in the play because he did not take time to think about what he was doing.
Romeo is responsible for his and Juliet’s death because he is an impulsive thinker who has no regard for the outcomes of his actions. According to, “Let me have a dram of poison”. Since, Romeo automatically thinks to kill himself after the news of Juliet’s death; he shows his responsibility from him not thinking about how the results of killing himself would affect others. Stated by William Shakespeare, “Could draw to
William Shakespeare’s tragedy of two teenagers, who by chance end up falling in love with each other, making lots of impulsive decisions that also cause other characters to make equally impulsive decisions, and a problem is solved with loss. After some unfortunate events happen, and cause problems which could have been solved in many different ways than they were solved, Romeo and Juliet meet and begin to affect the lives of the people who are have no part in their relationship. The story that begins all around the feud between the Capulet and Montague families and it is all solved in the end of the play with a tragic ending resulting from the impulsive decisions that many characters make
Romeo is the kind of guy who doesn’t take a lot of time to think about things. He loves to jump to action quickly. This is a bad character trait to have as it can easily lead to many negative things. In fact, this is one of the character flaws that lead to Romeos downfall. After being misinformed about Juliet’s “death”, he plans to kill himself right away. He takes no time to think of another solution. “Come, Cardial and not poison, go with me / To Juliet’s grave; for there must I use thee” (5-1-82). Romeo buys a deadly poison with the idea to go to Juliet’s grave to kill himself. He is in distress and he obviously does not know the right thing to do. As if there’s no other way, Romeo travels to Juliet’s grave. He then proceeds to do what he wishes to do, to kill himself. After he kills himself, Juliet wakes up to see Romeo’s corpse. She kills herself shortly after seeing Romeo dead. Romeo could be living a life alive with Juliet if he didn’t conclude things so quickly. Consequently, Romeo has to endure the “death” of Juliet and the actual death of