Romeo And Juliet Emotional Analysis

In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare depicts Romeo as a man who over exaggerates his feelings and acts purely based on them. The first scene where Romeo is mentioned is when we find the Montague family looking for him. He has wandered off sighing because of some sadness he feels and when Benvolio finds him he discovers that Romeo had left due to Rosaline rejecting his love. When Romeo describes how heartbroken he is over Rosaline he says “Why, such is love’s transgression./griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,/which thou wilt propagate, to have it pressed /with more of thine. This love that thou hast shown/doth add more grief to too much of mine own” (1.1.192-196). These lines show that Romeo obviously is too invested in his emotions

In the first act, when he is heartbroken from Rosaline, he would never stop complaining and whining about how sad he was. His whole life revolved around Rosaline and would never stop talking about her. Then, when he met Juliet and fell in love with her, his life no longer revolved around Rosaline, but Juliet. He decided to marry her the very next day after they met due to his overflowing emotions for her and made a life changing decision. He did not stop to think for one second about the possible outcomes and only focused on how much he claimed to love her after one day. Not only that, but the scene where Tybalt kills Mercutio is prime evidence of Romeo’s feelings controlling him. In this scene, Tybalt had originally challenged Romeo to a duel and Romeo declines. Even so, Mercutio and Tybalt engage in a duel and Mercutio dies. When Romeo hears of this he exclaims “Alive in triumph—and Mercutio slain! /away to heaven, respective lenity,/and fire-eyed fury be my conduct now./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” (3.1.127-134). Romeo explicitly states that fury will control his actions and contradicts what he says earlier and engages Tybalt in a duel. He ends up killing Tybalt and realizes the consequences of his