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Emotions In Romeo And Juliet By William Shakespeare

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Emotionally Motivated In Act 2, Shakespeare illustrates how emotions affect people’s actions. The reader learns that Romeo’s emotions control his actions. To start, Romeo gets very angry at Tybalt, and challenges him to a duel. (cultural event or background info relevant to the play). Tybalt has just slain Mercutio, and Romeo angrily tells Tybalt that “Alive in triumph, and Mercutio slain? Away to heaven respective lenity, and fire eyed fury be my conduct now! (Shakespeare 3.1.117). Shakespeare’s use of “fire-eyed fury” describes that Romeo is filled with resentment and hate towards Tybalt, enough to enable him to get in a duel with Tybalt. The reader can infer that the use of “fire-eyed fury” is usually used to describe a very angry person,
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