“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” (Shakespeare, 2.2.35). Sabotaging and killing her chances of a happy ending Juliet—that is where Romeo is. Some may describe Romeo as “handsome, intelligent, and sensitive” (SparkNotes, 1), however this is clearly false. Romeo may be handsome and sensitive, but he is anything but intelligent. Intelligent people would not go to a party uninvited, especially a party they knew they would not be welcomed at. Intelligent people would not get revenge on a rival when they knew it would end in disaster. Most importantly, intelligent people would not kill themselves without thinking it through first. While one person may argue Romeo is the man of their dreams, he is clearly not. He is the only person to blame …show more content…
The Montague family, being the Capulet’s enemy, was not invited, however Romeo still finds a way to end up at the ball. This was his first mistake. Since Romeo had the bright idea to sneak himself into the Capulet’s masquerade ball, he ended up angering Tybalt and meeting Juliet. This ends up becoming a major problem because Tybalt, now wanting revenge, will cause a huge scene later in the story. Because Romeo was selfish and snuck into the party he was not invited to, he ultimately started his downward spiral and took Juliet with …show more content…
Would you cry? Would you celebrate? Would you end your life without thinking about the consequences? I’ll give you a hint as to what you shouldn’t do. You should not end your life because someone you met three days ago has “passed away.” After Romeo had received the news of his darling Juliet’s passing, he became deranged. He decided to purchase a bowl of poison that would take his own life. As he walked upon Juliet’s casket, he decided to drink the poison without any hesitation. As his vision went blurry and his breathing started to slow he noticed Juliet awaken. However it was too late. He was dead. At the sight of her husband dying, Juliet decided to take Romeo’s dagger and stab herself (Shakespeare, 229). If Romeo had not reacted so quickly and killed himself, Juliet would still be alive and the story of Romeo and Juliet may not have ended in tragedy. Their story came to an end because Romeo had acted on his impulsive
She also had fallen in love and was willing to risk things to be with him. Romeo let the best of the relationship get to him and didn't stick up for his friend. He was hiding after a big fight with Tybalt and ended up not getting a note Juliet passed to him to tell her she faked his death. He ended up finding out from people that she was "dead" and he felt the need to kill himself just so he can be with her spiritually. It turned out she wasn't dead and she ended he life for the same reason Romeo ended his.
Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo and kills herself by a dagger to her heart. The significance of this showing that the Friar in the place of power he had could have easily been a good guide for the two and helped them in a lot instead of doing the complete opposite. The Friar giving Juliet the sleeping potion and him being slow to tell Romeo made Romeo worried and thought provoked that his love, Juliet perished, in a sense that she did not. This started a ripple effect and put Romeo in a state of grief , he killed himself, and when juliet woke up she did
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, a complex character, is a self-absorbed human and at times, fickle. Although Romeo is portrayed as a elegant, clean-cut man, he is a narcissist. In fact, Romeo only looks for beauty in women: “O, she
He comes up with a plan and instructs Juliet to fake her death. This was not the most effective plan, however, because it failed miserably. Romeo got word that Juliet was dead, and rushed to Verona. Upon seeing her dead, he realizes he cannot live without her and swallows poison. Juliet wakes up to see Romeo dead, takes his dagger, and stabs herself in the chest.
Romeo in Shakespears Romeo and Juliet is misunderstood very often. Many reader’s first impression of Romeo stems from the first few scenes of the play, where not much is truly known about this character, making it easy to misconstrue him as ignorant. However, while Romeo appears to be a shallow and immature young man, his actions prove that he is more intelligent and complex than he seems. Romeo shows immense loyalty by stepping up to avenge mercutio. Throughout the story, Romeo would set aside his friends for his love interests, skipping out on activities with them in order to be with Juliet or to sulk about rosaline.
Finally, he obtained poison and killed himself. His self-inflicted death was the ultimate reason why Juliet killed herself with his dagger
Romeo took a poison that had the ability to shut down his body and when he saw Juliet, He thought she was dead so he took the poison. When Romeo took the poison, Juliet was slowly coming back and that was when Romeo realized he had done something wrong by taking the poison. Juliet had seen he had taken the poison and she yelled and screamed to bring him back but it didn't work and she then killed herself.
To start, even though Romeo is not a tragic hero, he does exhibit the trait of being noble. Romeo was born into a very high-class family called the Montagues. A Lot of people respect Romeo, even his enemies respect him (capulets). The audience sees his enemies respect
Romeo is very fixated on love, easily heartbroken, and depressed. These traits are more obvious as Mercutio’s humor and his ability to be reasonable lighten the rather dark shadow Romeo carries. Mercutio’s line, “If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.” (I, iv, 27-28)
Beauty’s ensign yet. Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheek”(Act v, scene 3, 94-95). He is too stubborn and swept up in grief to realize that if someone looks like they are alive, then there is a good chance that they are alive. All in all, if Romeo had used some critical thinking and looked past his stubbornness, the ending would not have been as
He thinks everything is the end of the world, it can be a little problem and he makes it seem like the world is falling apart. Romeo shows he is immature when he falls in love with Juliet, when he kills Tybalt and when his response to being banished. These examples show that him being childish lead to the tragic ending of the story. I believe
Romeo loves deeply and passionately, however this can blind him, and lead to him making both impulsive and immature decisions. Some could argue that his whole love for Juleit was impulsive and immature. Most mature people do not believe that you can fall in love at first sight, or fall in love as deeply as Romeo did that quickly. When he found Juliet at what he thought was dead he almost immediately killed himself, even though, if he waited just a few minutes, he would find that she was not even dead. He did many things throughout the play without much thought like marrying Juliet so soon, or breaking into his family's rival's orchard, and killing
This is one of the biggest times that Romeo let his emotions get the best of him, and this time it cost him his life. If he would not have of been so quick to take the poison, or have been so set on his decision, he would have noticed these details, or he would have asked the Friar whether or not Juliet is actually dead, but his emotions clouded his judgement, and Romeo took the poison, thus no one could
Romeo is a young man of about sixteen years. He is handsome, intelligent, and sensitive. He lives in the middle of a violent feud between his family and the Capulets, but he is not at all interested in violence. He is only interested in love.