Stories about young love usually relate to themes of how young people are irrational and reckless in love and relationships. In this case, Romeo and Juliet do not fall under the odd. Shakespeare tells the great love story of the two young star-crossed lovers - Romeo and Juliet, ending with the tragic deaths of six people including the suicide of the two lovers. The decisions and actions that Romeo and Juliet have made reveals the overall theme Shakespeare was expressing - Young love is often more reckless and impulsive due to young people's rash decision making and the high level of zeal that they possess. First of all, it takes time to develop trust and understanding, which are indispensable elements that comprises love. Which is what …show more content…
Romeo and Juliet could not have accomplished since they have only known each other for a few days. Beginning with their meeting on Sunday night and ending with their suicide on Wednesday afternoon, Romeo and Juliet’s love story only takes place in less than a week.
The two lovers could not possibly build up strong trusts or understanding within five days. The short timeline reveals their decisions and actions take very little thought considering they got married right after the day they met. This also shows Romeo and Juliet have a great amount of affection and ardor to push them into making these decisions. As Friar Lawrence once said: “These violent delights have violent ends.” Romeo and Juliet were so pumped up by the rush of their love, they could not see anything else that each other. This rush that they are fueled with, drives them into another and another invocatable decisions. What differs true, long lasting love from Romeo and Juliet’s rushed and reckless love the most are long lasting happiness and fulfillment of one another. The two lovers ending their young lives makes it impossible for them to enjoy happiness or fulfillment of life. Romeo and Juliet’s decisions were the complete opposite of how to possess a longinquity relationship. Thier distressing ending is again caused by their rash decision making. Rewinding from when Romeo and Juliet suicided, we could see there were several important choices they made that were direct causes which led to the …show more content…
tragic end of the story. Juliet drinking the potion a day early, started a series of misconception. By drinking the potion early, Juliet breaks the plan negotiated by Friar Lawrence. Henceforth, Romeo could not get the news of Juliet’s fake death. This notarizes Juliet does not think about the consequences that could happen before she make her decisions. Although Juliet’s “death” was the start of the tragic events, Romeo’s decision was the most direct cause of the events. After hearing the news from Balthasar, Romeo “challenges fate” and decides to go see Juliet one last time. Getting blocked by Paris on the way, Romeo turns his grief for Juliet to anger and kills Paris. As Romeo was saying to Paris: “Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say a madman's mercy bade thee ran away.” (IV.3 66-67) It is clear that Romeo action was carried away by the sorrow of Juliet’s death. After making another rash decision, Romeo himself also makes the ultimate sacrifice by drinking the poison. However, he drank it without checking Juliet’s true state. Ironically, he does notice that Juliet does not seem dead yet: “Thou art not conquer’d; beauty’s ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.” (IV.3 94-96) With grief taking over his mind, he ends his last words praising Juliet’s beauty. Anyhow, Romeo made another impulsive decision by ending his life. After Romeo’s suicide, Juliet followed the same path as her husband by ending her life along with him. The two young lover’s suicide proves they do not think about long term fulfilments or consequences, revealing the precipitant of their love. Love is not selfish.
Love is selfless toward all the ones you love. However, Romeo and Juliet’s actions are the contrary of this statement. Romeo and Juliet showed no care of the generational feud between their families. They selfishly married without acknowledging their parents and hoped to solve the conflict by hiding the truth. Other than proving their selfishness, this shows that the two are also fairly naive to believe that their love can overcome all the consequences and break the hostility between their families. Their impulsive decisions have not only largely impacted their lives, but also placed the lives of their family and friends in bet. Out of the six deaths in the play, Mercutio was the first to lose his life. Mercutio was one of Romeo’s best friends. Although he was not a member of neither the two families, his death was indirectly caused by the feud of the two families. Also directly, caused of Romeo. Since Romeo had just married Juliet, he wanted to be friendly with Juliet’s cousin-Tybalt. Because of this, Romeo led his dear friend Mercutio die under his arm. Angered by Mercutio's death, Romeo gets his revenge by slaying Tybalt. Although count Paris was not the first to die, he was definitely the most innocent one. Paris had no connection to the feud between the two families; no other role than being the lovely gentlemen who wanted to marry Juliet. Nevertheless, Romeo did not care about his story when he killed him for the reason of blocking his way.
This shows that Romeo emotions often triumphs his thinking, leading him into rash decision making. To this point, not counting people indirectly killed by Romeo and Juliet, Romeo himself has shed his hands with the blood of two people. Adding on another unfortunate incident, Lady Montague was revealed dead over the excessive grief for her son. The deaths caused by Romeo and Juliet reveals the two young lovers do not think about the severe injuries that could happen to their loved ones. Again proving the selfishness reckless of their love. Proved through their actions and decisions, Romeo and Juliet’s love is rushed with precipitance and selfishness. Romeo and Juliet’s excess amount of zeal and lack of second thoughts have ended their sorrowful love story, revealing the reckless of young love. By showing the tragic ending, Shakespeare confronts Friar Lawrence prophecy on rushed love. The violent delights between Romeo and Juliet has lead to violent ends, with the deaths of four people and the two lovers making the eternal sacrifice.
Romeo senses tensions are high with Tybalt, so he states, “I do protest I never injured thee but love thee better than thou canst devise.” (Lines 65-66 Act Three, Scene One). Romeo is trying to diffuse the situation because he realizes that Tybalt is his love's cousin. Mercutio is surprised by Romeo’s behavior, so he decides to fight Tybalt himself. Mercutio’s decision to fight Tybalt leads to his own death. Romeo is angered by the death of Mercutio and states, “Now, Tybalt, take the “villain" back again/ That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio’s soul.” (Lines 123-124 of Act Three, Scene One). Romeo is indicating that Tybalt is the villain now, because he slayed Mercutio. Romeo forgets about his attempt to befriend the Capulets and slays Tybalt. Romeo, murderer of Tybalt, solely focuses on Juliet and states “Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say “death"/For exile hath more terror in his look.” (Lines 12-13 of Act Three, Scene Three). Romeo does not care about Tybalt’s life, but only cares for the way it affects his relationship with Juliet. Romeo’s mother dies out of grief because of his banishment. Romeo’s recklessness in loving Juliet has led to the death of three
Do you know someone who has acted without thinking? In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Juliet is one of the main characters who falls in love and ends in a tragic death. Juliet is a tragic hero and her death could have been avoided if she wasn’t so impetuous.
One of the people I think is responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s death is Mercutio. Mercutio had evoked a fight with his enemy Tybalt.During the fight, Mercutio was killed by Tybalt and Mercutio put a curse on both of their families.
A friar of wisdom and great power is an abuser of the power he holds; a friar the citizenry turn to thinking he is there to be welcoming, but he is vain. Friar Lawrence has good intentions to help others yet his actions show that he is truly impulsive and naive. The Friar shows his, “lies, schemes, misleads, falsely sanctions, and performs funeral obsequies for a being he knows is not permanently dead--and, as we can tell, he has no the slightest twinge of conscience about all of this” (Mackenzie 1). He is also blamed for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. He manipulates the characters to believe his actions are to help the star-crossed lovers be happy, however he has ulterior motives and uses his powers against the lovers. In William Shakespeare’s
Romeo is asking Friar Laurence to marry him and Juliet, when they met just hours ago. The quote makes Romeo seem very impulsive because they just met hours ago and he's already asking Juliet to marry him. Don't you think you ought to let there be at least more than one day before you marry someone, well in this case Romeo and Juliet don't think so. I believe this is very foolish of them, because them trying to be together kills both of them. This young man obviously does not know what he wants
Have you ever been so in love that you would give up your life to be with another person? That is greatly the case in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Many question how true Romeo's love for Juliet was because of his infatuation with Rosaline. However, Romeo proved multiple times that he was truly in love with Juliet, and risked his life many times to be with her. Romeo's love for Juliet superseded any other relationships, especially his infatuation with Rosaline.
The world is an unforgiving place. Finding someone to trust is easy, finding someone trustworthy is difficult. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a multi-generational dispute rampages the city of Verona, preventing two young lovers from being together. However, in the iconic balcony scene, Juliet embodies characteristics unexpected of her. Despite Juliet being described as an innocent and naive young lady by her family, she has an ardor that allows her to portray maturity beyond her years.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story about a pair of star-crossed lovers whose demises were unexpected to most. However, their deaths were a result of their impulsiveness. It caused their problematic marriage, Romeo’s preventable death, as well as Juliet’s preventable death.
Romeo and Juliet choose their own actions through their judgments, which were caused by their belief of everlasting love. Due to their unsound and absurd attitudes, both characters are dazed by love in a puerile manner. The relationship they created was actually built on lust and desperation. Firstly, Romeo is the first character whom shows immature love in the story as a whole. Once Capulet’s party is over, Romeo’s attitude leads him to jump over the wall to Juliet’s house and exclaim to her,” And what love can do, that dares love attempt./Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me”(2.2.68-9). The effect of love caused Romeo to not pay attention to the consequences of jumping over the wall and talking to the daughter of his enemy. The flaw is that he is beginning to think that his love is as hard as nails. It is illogical for Romeo to think this...
Reckless actions lead to untimely deaths. In Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, both protagonists fight for their hopeless love. Bloodshed and chaos appear inevitable in fair Verona; Romeo and Juliet come from enemy households, the Montegues and the Capulets, who have sworn to defeat one another. The young and handsome Romeo weeps over his unrequited love for Rosaline, until he lays his eyes on Juliet. Strong and independent, Juliet seeks to escape her family’s will to marry her off to Paris, a kinsman of the Prince. Fate ties these adolescents’ lives together binding them to witness the ill-fortunes of Romeo and Juliet’s love. Romeo and Juliet prove themselves woefully impulsive through their words and actions, which ultimately lead them along a series of unfortunate mishaps.
Mercutio and Benvolio encountered Tybalt on the street of Verona and soon enough the newly wed Romeo came. Tybalt then provokes a fight with Romeo, " 'Romeo the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: Thou art a villain', said Tybalt." Shakespeare's play (3, 1, 61-62, 119). Romeo, on the other hand, turned down Tybalt's invitation with a response of, " 'Villain I am none. Therefore, farewell. I see thou knowest me not.' " (3, 1, 65-66, 119). Mercutio was greatly disappointed with Romeo so he just accepted Tybalt's challenge, which caused his death. Mercutio died cursing the Capulets and Montagues. Romeo felt the pain of Mercutio's lost. He craved for revenge over Tybalt so he slain him from his return. The lost of a best friend pushed Romeo to kill Tybalt. He never realized that it would end up that way, that he will lose him. It was the moment that he felt the importance of Mercutio in his life.
Romeo denies the fate of Mercutio who fought against Tybalt and lost, so he challenges Tybalt to fight in defense of his honor. His sense of honor would not allow himself to ignore the death of Mercutio. It mandated his absurd behavior to take Tybalt’s life which even further separated the Montague and Capulet family. Moreover, Romeo still decides to marry Juliet after he takes Tybalt’s life. His sense of honor leads him to find Father Lawrence who will marry both Juliet
The lover’s immediate connection is established at the Capulet feast, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Through doing this, it shows that Romeo is reckless and continues even though he recognizes that they come from different families, “o dear, my life is my foe’s debt”. Throughout the play, it establishes that Juliet allows herself to behave impulsively and be persuaded by Romeo into a impetuous and thoughtless marriage, “The exchange of thy love’s faithful vowel for mine” Juliet expresses her concern that it is too soon to promise to love Romeo when they have only just met, “It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden / Too like the lightning” This simile is used to convey Juliet’s thought on their sudden love. Although Juliet has recognized how spontaneous they are acting, it does not prevent her from continuing her relationship with Romeo, proving that Juliet is just as impulsive as Romeo. Thus, Shakespeare has skillfully utilized the lovers to demonstrate that their own reckless actions is a reason for their untimely
Mercutio, though a minor character, had and enormous impact on the outcome of the play. Before the Capulet Ball, Romeo had been debating whether to go or not. Mercutio persuaded him to go by giving a big speech to him about a dream he had. This makes him partially responsible because the Ball is where Romeo first met Juliet. Mercutio also caused Romeo to be banished from Verona. Mercutio got in a fight with Tybalt and ended up dead. His death enraged Romeo enough to make him kill Tybalt in revenge. When the Prince saw what happened, he sent Romeo into exile. Romeo's banishment to Mantua made it near impossible for Romeo and Juliet to see each other. Mercutio was to blame, though only partially for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
In the play “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare shows that love has power to control one’s actions, feelings, and the relationship itself through the bond between a destined couple. The passion between the pair grew strong enough to have the capability to do these mighty things. The predestined newlyweds are brought down a rocky road of obstacles learning love’s strength and the meaning of love.