Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet: Impulsiveness Romeo and Juliet is a calamitous tale written by Shakespeare that depicts a story about the demise of two star-crossed lovers. In this tragedy, the main characters, Romeo and Juliet, are brought together by fate and inevitably fall in love with each other. Romeo’s spontaneous behavior concerning the murder of Tybalt, his fluctuating affections for different women, and his impatience with regards to the his own suicide in Juliet’s tomb, ultimately leads to their deaths. By conceding that Romeo’s judgment in these situations was imprudent, it is apparent that this factor of impulsiveness in Romeo’s character makes their deaths unavoidable. During the first act, Romeo is in deeply adores a woman named Rosaline; however, Rosaline does not love him back. He becomes exceedingly depressed, worrying his parents, and he eventually shuts himself out from the rest of the world. However, Romeo’s impulsiveness leads him to become infatuated instantly with another girl he met at a Capulet’s party named Juliet. She is the only heir of the Capulet family, which are enemies of Romeo’s family, the Montague. Instead of thinking about consequences of their family rivalry, he convinces Friar Lawrence to marry him and Juliet surreptitiously the next day, which puts them in immediate danger. Because of this, later in this play Romeo and Juliet struggle to remain intimate in their relationship, although remaining miraculously faithful. In addition, in the third act of Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt kills Mercutio because he is a Montague, and gets into an altercation with him. Although Romeo first refused to fight, he kills Tybalt shortly after he kills Mercutio. Romeo shows his impulsiveness by killing him because Romeo did not think about how it is going to affect his relationship with Juliet. Prince punishes Romeo for killing Tybalt and exiles him from Verona. This separates them, making them unable to contact each other.