Romeo And Juliet Impulsive Quotes

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.

In Romeo's initial meet with Juliet, he instantly fell in love with her. He fell for Juliet before he really met her and actually got to understand her. Once he saw Juliet, he forgot his love with Rosaline straight away, which reveals his fickle nature. Both 'relationships' he harboured were based on aesthetics alone, as he fell infatuated with them before he talked to them. Upon first seeing

Juliet, he was amazed by her beauty 'oh she doth teach the torches to burn bright!' This shows how stunning and exuberant Romeo thinks Juliet is. Alliteration is employed during this sentence. The sentence appears repetitive, that reinforces the thought that the love that Romeo feels for Juliet is less attack-able, and less superficial and shallow than the love he had for Rosaline, as it is all that he will think about. This point was made early within the story, so that when Romeo and Juliet eloped, the love that they had for each other appeared true and sincere. This scene is incredibly tense once Romeo and Juliet become responsive to each others' true identities as a result of the families that each character belong to are enemies of each other which complicated the scene. Romeo described Juliet as being ''like a rich jewel in an Ethiope ear'' this sentence is a simile and portrays how Romeo contemplates Juliet to appear beautiful and to be precious. Once Romeo is describing Juliet, he foreshadows her death too, ''beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!''.

Furthermore, once describing Juliet, Romeo aforementioned ''so shows a snowy dove trooping with crows'' this statement is a metaphor. Doves are symbolic creatures and are typically utilized in literature to represent purity, serenity and beauty. This contrasts with cows. They're seen as being inelegant and ugly, this implies that Romeo felt that Juliet dimmed all other women's beauty with her mere presence which, in comparison to Juliet, every other girl was hideous. Romeo speaks in rhyming couplets that illiterates what an impulsive, romantic temperament he has. He speaks in rhyming couplets by himself, before he meets Juliet, however once they meet, they speak together in sonnet form. This illustrates how before Juliet, Romeo was a solitary figure, however once he met her, they bonded so powerfully that they speak perfectly together. This may hint that their love was destined to be, as individuals in the Shakespearean era believed that certain things were fated to be, and that man had no control over his feelings for a woman and the fact that he would discover that she was his enemy would not be able to stop his love for her even if their love was out of impulsion.

Moreover, Romeo’s character and characterization is utilized to illustrate the theme that impetuous behaviour causes our downfall. The main protagonist, Romeo, acquires a haunting impulsive behaviour throughout the play that leads to his death. Romeo’s rash and impulsive behaviour is presented in the rising action when he asks Juliet to marry him. “.. exchange of thy love’ faithful vow for / mine…”. Romeo persists to marry Juliet but he impulsively proposes to Juliet just after a couple hours of them being acquainted. He is not fazed by the consequences of their marriage or how it will affect the two feuding households. Romeo wants Juliet to "exchange of thy love’ faithful vow”, interpreted to say that he wants to marry Juliet. Romeo disregards her last name because he is impulsively infatuated with her.

Furthermore, the Friar's soliloquy is about the healing power of herbs and plants. Friar Lawrence also warns that the same plants used to heal can also be poisonous. This foreshadows the tragic events to come. If we can pull one distinct theme from the rhyming soliloquy, it would be that there is both evil and good things in people and conjointly in nature. It just depends on how the thing is used.
In Act II, scene III, once Romeo tells the Friar that he needs to marry Juliet, the Friar is shocked because just the night before, he was infatuated with Rosaline. The Friar decides to wed them as he thinks the on-going feud will end. He utters, “In one respect, I’ll thy assistant be;/ For this alliance may so happy prove/ to turn your households’ "rancour to pure love”. He failed to acknowledge that the families might not consider their call to induce married or that it should even make the feud worse. This is why he created an impulsive call. The Friar’s intentions are righteous; he hopes, by connecting the lovers in wedding ‘to turn [their] households’ rancour to pure love.’ However he acts while not considering fully the potential consequences of such a secret wedding between members of "feuding families”. The Friar's plan did put an end to the feud of the rival families but, the impulsive plan went awry, causing the death of Paris and even Romeo and Juliet.

Moreover, In Act V, scene I, Romeo acts impetuously when he instantly decides to kill himself once he hears of Juliet’s “death”.

When Romeo’s servant tells Romeo that Juliet is “dead'', Romeo impulsively rushes to be with Juliet, but before he leaves he writes a letter to offer to Lord Montague, explaining the situation. He remarked, “..Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. O mischief, thou art swift/ To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! / I do remember and apothecary”. Romeo recapped on what he first thought of the Friar and remembers that the apothecary is a desperate poor man, he would take the risk that in Mantua death is the penalty for selling poison. If Romeo didn't impetuously plan to poison himself, he might have received the message from the Friar indicating to them that Juliet isn't dead. Also If he had just gone to the tomb with no intention of suicide, he might have seen Juliet awaken. However, as a result of his impulsion, none of these things

happen.

To conclude, within the play of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Friar Laurence make impulsive choices, due to their impulsive decisions, the play ends terribly tragic. If they had thought out their choices before they actually took the actions or either verbalize it, then the play might have ended blithely.