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Emotions In Romeo And Juliet

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In William Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare discusses how Romeo portrayed the emotions of love for his now wife Juliet, but he experiences a moment of crisis to make his emotions quickly change. Currently in the Play, Friar Lawrence has declared the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, and both of the teenagers couldn’t be happier. Romeo has just had the best day of his life, and was walking through the Plaza when he encounters Tybalt. Tybalt had announced that he wanted Romeo and himself to duel through a letter that got sent to Romeo, but Romeo never received the letter. That is because Romeo hasn’t been at home, he was getting married to Juliet. Romeo is just on cloud-nine and doesn’t even want to fight Tybalt, …show more content…

Romeo is saying how nothing can ruin the joy and happiness he feels when being with Juliet. Juliet truly has a special place in Romeo’s heart, especially if he already wanted to marry her after only knowing her for not a full twenty-four hours. This evidence proves that Romeo feels the emotion of love by showing the readers how much he is honestly fond of Juliet. In David Dobbs article, Beautiful Brains, Dobbs speaks on how teenagers brains aren’t fully developed and because of that teens tend to make decisions they will eventually regret. Romeo is practically blinded by his love for Juliet. If Romeo hadn’t put in as much effort or time into Juliet, Romeo might have actually found the letter from Tybalt and therefore, things might have played out a lot differently in the play for ACT III. Continuing on, Romeo turns down Tybalt’s offer to fight him, which for Romeo, makes him named a coward. Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend, won’t allow Romeo to be seen as a coward, so he fights Tybalt to save Romeo's dignity. Sadly, that does not go very well for Mercutio, because Tybalt wins the fight and Mercutio ends up dead. Romeo, at first, believes that Mercutio made it out alive and well, but belief doesn’t last very long, because Romeo then realizes Mercutio is …show more content…

84-86). Romeo is saying how he is going to allow rage to guide his next actions. Romeo is powered by Tybalt’s actions of killing Mercutio. Romeo says how he is willing to die for Mercutio, and now he wants to fight Tybalt for murdering his best friend. This evidence proves that Romeo’s emotions quickly change from love to rage by Romeo physically attacking Tybalt, and participating in a duel. Romeo had previously not wanted to take any part in the fight, mainly because of not wanting to upset Juliet by fighting her cousin. Now that Tybalt has killed Mercutio, who is Romeo’s best friend, Romeo has no problem in getting involved to fight for who he loves. Romeo has an outburst of just rage, which gives him the power he needs to kill Tybalt. Even by just fighting for who he looks up to, Romeo is banished from Verona for killing Tybalt. From the documentation that has been provided, it is obvious that love and rage are very powerful

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Now, Tybalt, take the “villain” back again that late thou gavest me, for Mercutio’s soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep him company. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.” Romeo challenges Tybalt to a fight because of Mercutio's death. Romeo could have walked away from Tybalt, but chose to fight him instead. This ended in the death of Tybalt.

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