Romeo And Juliet Lack Of Patience Quotes

Sometimes there are moments in lives in which a person may lack the patience and the ability to reason. This lack of patience may be a result of sudden stress. Additionally, intense anger may be a contributing factor in this lack of proper judgement. Thus, Romeo provides an example of anger and stress on his judgement. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet the titled youth Romeo and Juliet were raised by two different families that have constant conflict with each other. They both fall in love which results in their suicides. However tragic, their deaths lead to the end of their conflicts. You could blame this tragedy on their families constant conflict. However, I believe that Romeo is to blame for the deaths of himself and Juliet due to his lack of patience and control of his emotions.

Throughout the text Romeo has shown that he has very little ability to control his emotions. As the play begins, Romeo is depressed because he claims to love a girl named Rosaline but the feelings are not mutual. Therefore, Romeo is introduced as depressed and emotionally damaged. This is demonstrated by Lord Montague and Benvolio’s conversation about Romeo. Lord Montague states; “...away from light steals home my heavy son and private in his chamber pens himself, shuts up his windows, locks fair

daylight out, and makes himself an artificial night.” (Shakespeare, p. 946-947). Here we see just how hurt Romeo is about Rosaline. Additionally, his emotions have been seen throwing him off. In act 5 scene 3 when Romeo visits Juliet’s grave, he notices that she is still full of color. He figures that Juliet is that way due to her beauty. However, instead of checking if she is dead he commits suicide. Thus, Romeo demonstrates his inability to think rationally under emotional stress.
Additionally this is proven again when Romeo kills Tybalt after watching the death of Mercutio. He is quick to act without stopping to think of the consequences. Tybalt would have come to the same end if Romeo would have stopped and controlled his emotions and let the law deal with the issue. However, his in ability to think rationally under emotional stress resulted in his banishment.
Romeo also demonstrates his lack of emotional maturity. He was quick to forget about Rosaline after meeting Juliet. Even Friar Laurence notices this on act 3 scene 3 when he says “Is Rosaline that thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken?”(Shakespeare p. 979). Friar Laurence knows just how desperate Romeo is, and even scolds him for it. He is seen frequently telling Romeo to slow down. Juliet has also noticed how quickly Romeo falls in love. “It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; too like the lightning, which doth cease to be…”(Shakespeare, p. 975). Juliet feels like they are moving much faster than they should be. Therefore Romeo’s ability to fall in and out of love so quickly demonstrates his emotional immaturity. Thus, he is not able to make mature adult decisions when it comes to his emotions.
A popular belief in the class is that Friar Laurence is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

The ineffectiveness of his plan to smuggle Juliet out of Verona and their secret marriage from their families are the factors that contributed to his blame. We know this when he married Romeo and Juliet he hoped that it would end the crisis of both of their families. However, his intentions were to benefit the and could have successful if Romeo was more emotionally mature and made a more rational decision. Friar Laurence’s choice of messenger resulted in Romeo not receiving the plan. However, Romeo still acted without thinking and committed suicide, thus resulting in Juliet’s

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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet could have been prevented, if Romeo could have controlled his emotions. He could have let the law take action and not kill Tybalt out of anger. Or when he saw Juliet’s body, he should have not let sorrow control him. He should have looked more closely at Juliet and waited just a little bit longer on drinking the poison. Thus, Romeo was too emotionally immature to act properly in the given situations. Romeo doomed himself and his lover Juliet.