Examples Of Passion In Romeo And Juliet

Passion is the basis for many emotions and has a large influence in people’s lives. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, passion is what drives the plot of the story, and is explored as a theme. The personalities of characters are usually determined by what they’re passionate about. Passion can take many forms like pride, justice, and love.

Pride can be meant in a variety of ways, but essentially means that you feel really proud of yourself, or a group you belong to. For example, your family. Pride is a passion that can spark anger if someone feels that something they’re proud of is being threatened. Tybalt was a very proud character, he was very proud of being a Capulet. He interpreted Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutcio coming to the Capulet’s masque as an insult or even a threat to the Capulets. Tybalt says to Capulet: “By stock and honour of my kin/To strike him dead I hold it not a sin” (Act 1, scene 5, lines

58-59). He was willing to kill to protect the honour of his family, and he did. Pride can make people very aggressive, and reveals a lot about a character.
Passion and Justice might not seems to go together at first, but they really do go hand in hand.

If no one has any passion or strong will to up hold rules or do what’s just, then there wouldn’t be any. One example would be the Princes character. But another, more interesting example, is Romeo. It’s not his job to keep the peace, or do what’s right, like the Prince, but throughout the play, Romeo proves he has a passion for doing what’s just. Like when he goes to kill Tybalt to avenge the death of Mercutio. Before he kills Tybalt, he says: “Either thou, or I, or both,/ Must go with him.” (Shakespeare Act 3 sc. 1 lines 218-219). In this line, Romeo reveals that he holds himself equally responsible for the death of Mercutio as he does Tybalt. Romeo doesn’t have a bias, because I think most of us do blame Tybalt for Mercutio’s death, but Romeo understands that even if he didn’t mean to, he helped to kill Mercutio, and his mistake did have consequeces. Doing what’s right is a kind of passion because you have to really care to carry out true

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Love is probably the most well known form of passion, and is one the most important themes in Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is almost entirely passion. Everything they did scince they met was pretty much just a spur-of-the-moment type thing. One of the most important acts of passion is when both Romeo and Juliet choose to die rather than be with out each other. Say what you want about it, but it would take a crazy amount of passion to actually go through with killing yourself over someone you’ve known for five days. When Juliet find Romeo dead she says: “Oh Churl! Drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after?” (Act 5 sc 3 lines 163-164). She talks as if she doesn’t even have to think about it, there’s no hesitation in her words, of course I’m going to kill myself if you have but how am I going to that if drank all your poison, of course the answer is that she’ll stab herself. But the imporatant thing is that there was more thought put into how she would kill herself than if she should, because her decision completely made from her passion. You could argue that the passion of love is the key element in Romeo & Juliet.
People’s actions can almost always be explained by their personality , which is shaped by what they’re passionate about. Passion is something that everyone has, and complicates life, but also gives it meaning. The story of Romeo & Juliet is a story of passion. The passion between two houses, two lovers, and for doing what is right.