Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, depicts an ancient feud ended by a pair of star-crossed lovers’ deaths. A lord and lady from warring families seek a forbidden love with guidance from a friar and nurse. Due to a tragic course of mischances and fateful errors, their attempt of eloping led the lovers to a tragic end. Because of rash decisions, the four characters are torn apart by miscalculating events and misunderstandings. Ultimately, the four characters encounter a heartbreaking ending, as a result of their hastiness. As the leading characters, Romeo and Juliet both portray the flaw that ultimately leads to the resolution: impulsiveness. Portrayed as emotional throughout the play, Romeo’s hamartia came to play in his vengeful state: “And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now...Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.” (3.1.117-122). Shakespeare’s characterization of Romeo as …show more content…
hasty contribute to his start of peripeteia. Tybalt’s murder ended with Romeo’s exile, a hole in the lovers’ elopement, resulting in their perishment. Likewise, Juliet, ignorant to fate’s opposition of their affair, made haste to propose: “Thy purpose of marriage, send me word tomorrow.” (2.2.144) Playing the roles of the star-crossed lovers’ parental figures, Friar Laurence and the Nurse suffer an ill-fated calamity due to their hastiness.
Unlike the Nurse, Friar Laurence displays wisdom, but contradicts it through rash guidance: “Take thou this vial, being then in bed/And this distilled liquor drink thou off.” (4.1.193-194) Terrorized by a suicidal Juliet, Friar Laurence devised a plan through an illusory ploy of a sleeping potion. His hasteful consolation through a thoughtless scheme contribute to misunderstandings that lead to a tragic end. In similar fashion, the Nurse betrays Juliet’s trust by rashly advocating Lord Capulet’s proposal of marriage: “I think you are happy in this second match/For it excels your first; or if it did not/Your first is dead…” (3.5.223-225) Beforehand, Nurse’s maternal instinct toward Juliet buoys her meddling. However, Lord Capulet’s rage led her retreat submissively, driving Juliet to adhere to the friar's shortsighted plan. Although rich in heart, the parental figures display hasteful judgements that led to the lovers’
doomsday. Shakespeare’s tragedy speaks to the audience not only as recreation, but also as a reflection. The lack of hesitation, portrayed by the four characters, impact the resolution immensely. Their denial of reality and quick-witted actions led to a tragic end. The miscalculations and terrible coordination led the characters atray, each desperate to have a “happily ever after”. All in all, the four characters’ hasteful actions caused them to be ignorant of a looming downfall.
Romantic love stories are often ended with a tragedy, because of loss of passion or a loved one. These tragedies are often the result of one person’s actions that ended someone’s life or love. In the Romeo and Juliet play written by William Shakespeare, two citizens of Verona come together and fall deeply in love. Unfortunately their love comes to an end, along with their lives, because of a misunderstanding and a persistent feud between their families. Although there are many characters in this play that have contributed to Romeo and Juliet’s death, Friar Laurence is the person most to blame.
Throughout Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo’s character is desperate and impulsive which ultimately contributes
sure she was ready. Though he did tell him to "woo her, gentle Paris, get her
The play shows that hasty and rash decisions can have fatal and tragic consequences for some characters in ‘Romeo and Juliet”
There are many forces in the tragic play of Romeo and Juliet that are keeping the two young, passionate lovers apart, all emanating from one main reason. In this essay I will discuss these as well as how love, in the end, may have been the cause that led to the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Their strong attraction to each other, which some call fate, determines where their forbidden love will take them.
The definition of impulse is a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, expresses what it means to act on impulse. This play tells about two young adults, Romeo and Juliet, who belong to two feuding families in Verona, the Capulets and Montagues. They fall in love at first sight and decide to get married the next day, acting on impulses. Their marriage is performed by a man named Friar Lawrence in the hopes that it will end the feud between the families. However, all their lives take a turn for the worse when Romeo becomes banished from Verona by Prince Escalus. The Friar devises a plan so Romeo and Juliet will be able to be together. The
In every fairy tale, movie, story, and play there is always a ‘happily ever after’ but in not in this case. The star struck lovers, Romeo and Juliet, both from families who loathe each other, end up taking their lives because they rather die than live without one another. The play “Romeo and Juliet” written by, William Shakespeare, mainly focuses on how selfishness can lead to tragedy. The selfish personalities of the characters caused conflict, betrayal, and death.
The story of Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. The two lovers go against their families and against their hate to be together but they don’t think about the consequences, which in the end are devastating.
Through the flaws in the characterization of his characters, Shakespeare allows their weakness to manipulate and cloud their judgment. This fundamentally leads to the outcome of Romeo and Juliet, with each weakness presenting a conflict that alters the characters fate. Being especially true with the star-crossed lovers, William Shakespeare leads their perfect love into tragedy with these conflicts. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet, Friar Lawrence, and Tybalt all contribute to conflicts that enhance the plot. From destructive flaws in their characterizations, Juliet, Friar Lawrence, and Tybalt are all consequently controlled by their weakness, therefore affecting the outcome of the play.
Ultimately, Romeo and Juliet become embodiments of impulsiveness. Through their rash words and actions in the tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare sets forth that both are too hasty in their decisions, leading them into unfortunate events. As the plot unfolds, Romeo and Juliet’s futile love is torn apart by their family’s hate and animosity towards each other. Despite their constant struggle to let their love survive, it is doomed from the beginning of the tragedy. It is plain that lack of foresight and wisdom leads to disaster all around.
In the tremendous play of ‘Romeo & Juliet’, Shakespeare’s ways engages the audience straight away. The astounding methods he uses hooks the audience into the play and allows them to read on, wondering what will happen. The tragic love story of Romeo & Juliet, as mentioned in the prologue, sets a variety of themes throughout Act 1 Scene 5. Many of the recognisable themes are: youth and age, revenge, forbidden love, fate, action and hate. The main idea of the play is a feud that had been going on between two families, The ‘Montagues and Capulets’, the son of the Montagues and the daughter of the Capulets fall in love and the story tells us how tragic, death, happiness and revenge find them throughout the play.
Often in life, people are told to think twice before they do something, as hasty decisions could have terrible repercussions. This advice is forgotten by Romeo Montague, one of the main characters in William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet. Many times throughout the play, Romeo acts impulsively and irrationally, without thinking of the consequences of his actions. His irresponsibility and hasty decisions result in several unfortunate situations. It is obvious to the reader that much of the misfortune in the play is a result of his over dramatic personality. Many undesirable situations occur due to his incapability to listen to his conscience, the influence his emotions have on his decision making and his stubborn refusal to listen to people’s advice.
“We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow, I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray, That thou consent to marry us to-day.” (Shakespeare II.III. 60). Romeo’s impulsiveness is clearly shown through this quote that he states. The reason for Romeo’s impulsiveness is because he just recently met Juliet and he decides to marry her very quickly. Also this quote reveals to the audience Romeo’s hamartia. Since he is too quick and rash it will inevitably lead him to his fatal death; and through this quote you could see where Romeo went wrong and how it will greatly affect him. Furthermore Romeo leads the audience to believe that he is just infatuated by Juliet’s looks; due to the fact he was strongly in love with Rosaline and then all of sudden falls in love with Juliet and forgets about Rosaline which he claimed to be his one and only love. “Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”(II.III.65). This quote that Friar Lawrence states planted into the readers mind that Romeo might not be truly in love but rather infatuated. This tragic play takes place in fair Verona where a quarrel between two families takes place due to an ancient grudge. Both families, Montague and Capulet hate each other with a great passion. Two lovers named Romeo and Juliet are both from the two opposing families and they love and marry each other in secret without their families knowing. Because of their impulsiveness and rash decisions it causes them to lead themselves to die a tragic death. Foil characters aid to heighten or highlight an attribute in another character which furthers the plot. Romeo is heightened and influenced by secondary characters that eventually brings out his hamartia, peripeteia, and anagnorisis. These chara...
In Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the lovers meet their doom, by scene iii of Act V. With their fatal flaw of impulsivity, Romeo and Juliet are ultimately to blame for their death. Contrarily, if it was not for the unintentional influence of the pugnacious Tybalt, the star-crossed lovers may have remained together, perpetually. To the audience, the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are already understood, for it is a Shakespearean tragedy. However, the causes, predominantly Romeo’s and Juliet’s fatal flaw of impulsivity and rashness, are as simple as Shakespearean writing. Though Romeo and Juliet are wholly to blame for their tragic suicides, in Act V scene iii, Tybalt is, in turn, responsible, as his combative spirit forced Romeo to murder him and Juliet to marry Paris.
Being young and inexperienced, the lovers both express an impulsive nature. When overwhelmed by emotion, Romeo and Juliet lose the ability to think rationally and believe that suicide is a solution to their problems. Juliet claims that “if all else fail” she has “[the] power to die”, while Romeo’s banishment leads him into thinking he can be sacrificed and “be put to death.” Shakespeare is drawing attention to the implications of young, passionate love with inexperience. Similarly, Romeo and Juliet express too much passion in which it overcomes reason. Romeo is reckless and fearless, feeling as if nothing can “countervail the exchange of join” since he is “proof against [the] enmity.” Once again, Shakespeare emphasises the youth and immaturity through Romeo displaying these traits. When Romeo reveals to Friar Laurence that he loves Juliet, the Friar’s response suggests that young men are superficial as they love “not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” Thus, Shakespeare questions the depth and sincerity of Romeo’s love for Juliet due to his fickle nature. Romeo constantly ignores Friar’s advice about his relationship with Juliet. Simultaneously, Friar Laurence suggests Romeo to “love moderately” because his passionate relationship with Juliet will lead to “violent ends.” Friar argues for Romeo to have a more tempered and moderate behaviour as Romeo and Juliet’s passion and impulsivity will result in destruction. Shakespeare uses Friar Laurence to warn Romeo against a rushed and unrestrained passion and juxtaposes to Friar Laurence’s patient and well considered actions with Romeo’s impulsive and irrational actions. Romeo and Juliet’s actions and behaviours aid to their predicament, along with the inevitable factors of fate and