Examples Of Irrational Behavior In Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet. The fantastical Shakespearean play told the story of two star crossed lovers whose backgrounds made them too complicated and delicate. Their fate drew a line through their hearts, forcing them to expectantly make rational thoughtful decisions. Though they ended up trying to defy their fate instead of working with the facts. Their irrational behavior was a catalyst for their demise in the play when falling into a forbidden love, throwing others lives away and making an incredulous plan.

We are first introduced to Juliet as quiet and obedient, allowing her parents to make decisions for her, especially when it comes to who she marries. Romeo is a reflective person who journals and writes poems. He is heartbroken over a girl

His actions are met with banishment and before he leaves for a far off country Mantua, he visits Juliet and she shows no mourn or sadness or even anger towards Romeo for killing her cousin. “Wash they his wounds with tears? Mine shall be spent, when theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment.” (3.2.130-131) Juliet states this after Nurse informs her about Tybalt's death. Stating she will cry for Romeo and not Tybalt. She would let her family mourn Tybalt alone, and instead she would mourn her “husband” of two days and forget that he is the reason for her family's pain. “Yon light is not daylight; I know it, I. It is some meteor that the sun exhaled, to be to thee this night a torch-bearer, and light thee on thy way to Mantua.” (3.5.12-15) Juliet speaks to Romeo forgetting about Tybalt, whilst encouraging him to break the law and flee a sentence of banishment. The sentence that would bring justice to Tybalt and his

Romeo flees leaving his family and loved ones behind. Throwing the whole trajectory of his life away all for a girl he met a few days prior. Friar Lawrenece foolishly seeks out Juliet and they make a plan which will allow Juliet to run off and find Romeo once more. Though the plan had too many flaws. “How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo come to redeem me? There's a fearful point!” (4.3.29-31) This shows Juliet thought, even for just a moment, that something might go wrong. A foreshadow of what is to come. She knew the risks and yet proceeded to play out a plan that she perceived might not work. Friar Lawrence fails to tell Romeo Juliet isn’t really dead which then again causes Romeo to act impulsively. “Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars! Thou knowest my lodging. Get me ink and paper, and hire post-horses. I will hence tonight.” (5.1.24-26) Romeo is now distraught knowing his lover is dead. He buys a poison that guarantees death. He goes to the Capulet Tomb and before he walks in sees Paris. The two squabble and Romeo ends up killing him too; two deaths by him in a few nights. He strides into the tomb and finds Juliet “dead”. His immediate response is to kill himself as well so the two can be reunited in heaven. Yet another impulsive action. “Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide, thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here's to my love!”