Romeo And Juliet Flaws

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It is known throughout the world that romance brings love and passion, but when it is taken too far tragedy can soon follow. Set in 16th century Verona, William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet portrays a naive thirteen year old girl, Juliet Capulet, who has thought little about love and marriage, but soon grows up quickly upon falling in love with Romeo, the son of her family's great enemy. As the play progresses, Juliet’s defiance and qualities of being independent begin to show. But nobody is perfect. Just like air, mistakes and tragic flaws are an essential part of life. It is what being a human is all about. Although Juliet is only a young child, she is the only child of an aristocratic family, thus granting her much more …show more content…

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!?/ Prodigious birth of love it is to me/ that I must love a loathed enemy” (I, v, 137-140). This shows that after one night of talking for a brief moment that they have already fallen in love. Juliet is driven by the fact someone has taken a liking in to her, thus she decides Romeo is the only one for her. This immaturity is the result of how Juliet is confined to her home and may only go on outing to the church, thus producing her lack of experience with men. And it makes it even harder for her to resist when a man shows some sort of affection towards …show more content…

Juliets wakes up from her deep slumber confused by her surroundings. But the first thought she has is “O comfortable friar! Where is my lord? I do remember well where I should be, and there I am. Where is my Romeo?” (V, iii, 148-150). Her first thought is Romeo, and he is the only thing on her mind. This shows her immaturity on how she only cares for herself and Romeo to be together. She does not think about any of her consequences and what they do to everyone surrounding her. After a few moments of mourning Romeo’s death, Juliet hears noises coming towards her and she soon decides “Yea, noise? Then i’ll be brief. O happy dagger!” (V, iii, 148-150). She takes her own life , not because of weakness, but rather because it was a way to show the magnitude of their love, just as Romeo had done. She decides life without Romeo is not a life she wants to be part of. Caring not of her family, friends, and everyone around her, she decides nothing can separate her from Romeo, not even

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