Romeo’s Tragedy It’s safe to say that everyone has flaws, normally the character is given to fix them, or they are so minor that they can be lived with. But, sometimes the character isn’t given the chance and there is no redemption because it’s too late. From the beginning of the play, Shakespeare told, that Romeo and Juliet will die by the end. Throughout the play, Shakespeare leaves little breadcrumbs that reveal who is responsible for their death, from further reading it becomes obvious that the culprit could be Romeo, and his impulsiveness. Shakespeare presents Romeo’s impulsiveness, throughout the scenes of Romeo and Juliet, to display various levels of tragedy caused from it. We first see Romeo’s impulsive behavior in the balcony scene …show more content…
Such was the case with Romeo now, with Shakespeare’s ending in Act 5, when Romeo rashly goes to an apothecary to buy poison and kill himself. It all begin when Romeo in Mantua gets the news from Verona that Juliet is supposedly “dead”, and lays buried at the Capulet tomb. But in actuality it was just an act fueled by the Friar’s potion which stops the heart rate, and makes someone look dead. Romeo doesn’t know this yet, since Friar John had been trapped in a town that gets quarantined. Now Romeo doesn’t even wait for a day or two, and instead his first thought was to buy poison and die next to Juliet. He says, “Let me have/ A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear/ As will disperse itself through all the veins/ That the life-weary taker may fall dead, And that the trunk may be discharged of breath/ As violently as hasty powder fired/ Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb.” (Shakespeare 5. 1. 59-65). From this excerpt, the reader can see that Romeo is buying his poison from the Apothecary. He even tells her what kind he wants, in such detail, too. He is being too rash by planning his death like
While seeing Juliet dead, he rashly decides to drink the vial of poison that he bought from some nearby apothecary. This occurs in Act 5 scene 3, “here’s to my love. O true Apothecary, thy drugs are quick, thus with a kiss I die”. It is here when Romeo's quick actions kill him. If he wasn't so quick to act and waited about a couple minutes or slept next to her “dead body”, he and Juliet would wake up together and have had a chance to live a long life.
When Romeo went into the store to buy poison, he had no second thoughts, no hesitation and it just shows how immature he is by saying “Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave, for there must I use thee.” (Shakespeare 5.1.89-90). This decision was 100% on Romeo, where his immaturity got the better of him, leading to the death of Romeo and Juliet. If Romeo were to just wait literally a few more hours, then Friar would have been able to let him know the plan, and then they would have been able to live happily ever after. And although Juliet is also stupid for buying into the plan, once the deed was done that she drank the vile,
Similarly to Mercutio's death, Romeo makes an impulsive decision to drink the poison out of his love for Juliet and to be with her in the afterlife. After Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo dead, she kills herself with a dagger, just like Romeo’s rash decision. Romeo and Juliet ended up killing themselves because they couldn’t live without each
Romeo’s impulsive nature gets him into trouble so he starts acting purely off of his emotions. Lastly, Romeo choosing to act off of emotion rather than logic leads to multiple deaths. When Romeo hears the news of Juliet’s death, he immediately decided he wanted to die with her. He sets out to find poison so he can lay himself to death in the Capulet's tomb. He drinks it, and with a final statement Romeo declares, “Here’s to my love [drinks] O true apothecary!
Even though he believed Juliet was dead he could have still asked around and investigated the situation before immediately buying the poison and killing himself. ” The most obvious example of impulsive behavior on Romeo's part occurs when, upon hearing from Balthasar that Juliet is dead, he goes immediately to the Apothecary’s to buy poison with which to kill himself at her side, instead of first investigating the circumstances of her ‘death’, ” Cardullo acknowledges (61-62). When Romeo first receives the poison his initial thought is, ”Come, cordial and not poison, go with
Romeo reacts this way to many of these situations in the story. Acting impulsively for one’s desires leads to many bad events because it does
Causing him to act impulsively, and then leading him to kill someone and get banished from Verona. Similarly, when Balthasar brings the message that Juliet died, Romeo goes to Juliet’s tomb and says: “O true Apothecary, / thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die”(5.3.119-120). This illustrates Romeo drinking poison purchased from an Apothecary in Juliet's tomb. It is a clear illustration of Romeo's loyalty, as he takes his own life because of Juliet's death.
Romeo then attacks Tybalt, which later on Romeo kills Tybalt (Act 3 Scene 1). When Romeo killed Tybalt that made Romeo get banish from Verona. As you can see, Romeo can be impulsive at
Romeo's impulsiveness and inability to control his emotions lead him to make additional bad decisions, such as when he went rushing to buy poison at (5.1.61-91), without thinking through the consequences of his actions. This decision ultimately results in the tragic deaths of both Romeo and
when he finds out that Juliet is dead, but doesn’t know she faked her death. Then Romeo sets out in his sorrow to an apothecary and says, “Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor: hold, there is forty ducats: let me have a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear as will disperse itself through all the veins that the life-weary taker may fall dead and that the trunk may be discharged of breath as violently as hasty powder fired doth hurry from the fatal cannon 's womb.” These quotes show you that Romeo is planning to kill himself because of Juliet faking her death, which Romeo doesn’t know about. In the end, Romeo kills himself by poison and dies by Juliet and then Juliet stabs herself and dies when she finds Romeo dead.
Accordingly, Romeo’s decisions are based on his own priorities. He assumes that his egotistical attitude grants him the right to make impetuous decisions and become exempt from all the risk factors. Romeo is impulsive about his relationship with the young women he is attracted to. His urge to hastily switch fondness from Rosaline to Juliet is an example
While Romeo was known for his impulsiveness, it didn 't go to help him out later on. Romeo had been convinced to sneak into the Capulet 's party, and would then lock eyes with a girl that he will forever be in love with. An analysis of Romeo’s character in the play Romeo and Juliet, reveals that his fatal flaw was his impulsiveness due to him falling in love and marrying Juliet, becoming a murder after he had killed Tybalt and Paris, and him killing himself. One reason why Romeo was impulsive was because he had fallen in love with Juliet at first sight.
Near the end of the play, in Act 4, Juliet doesn’t want to marry Paris, so she decides to go to Father Lawrence and get a sleeping potion. So that when it's the day of the wedding, it appears that she is dead. But Romeo sent his servant Balthasar out to spy on her; when he saw that she was “dead,” he went to Romeo and told him she was dead Romeo is impulsive. He buys poison so he can die with her. Romeo says, “To Juliet’s grave, for must I use thee” (5.1.88.).
In the play Romeo and Juliet one of the main characters, Romeo, is a rather impulsive fellow who acts on what he sees and feels. He falls in love in the blink of an eye and just as fast he can get over it. He is always impulsive but when he finds himself in love his impulsiveness doubles. Romeo’s impulsive decisions causes his love, Juliet, to ultimately get killed.
One reason Romeo was impulsive is because he fell in love with Juliet and married her only a day after meeting her. Romeo claimed to be in love with Juliet the first time that he saw her and immediately began obsessing over her. He kissed her and began talking about marrying her the night that they met.