Romeo And Juliet Impulsive Essay

Impulsiveness of Juliet Is Romeo and Juliet just a dramatic play or does it just depend on the character? In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare creates a play about the love at first sight between Romeo and Juliet and the tragic flaws throughout the play. Juliet meets Romeo at a Capulet ball, and since it is a Capulet ball, Montagues should not be there. Her cousin, Tybalt, recognizes the fact that a Montague is there, Romeo. They dismiss this and when Juliet and Romeo meet, they have a love at first sight moment. Although, Juliet is very impulsive with her decisions since Romeo has out-of-pocket ideas. The next day Romeo goes to meet her and brings the idea to her that they should get married but she was unsure at first. Since it was so

Despite the fact she has known Romeo only for a short time, Juliet falls deeply in love with him and is willing to risk everything to be with him. She is a headstrong woman who is not afraid to speak her mind, When she meets Romeo, she is immediately drawn to him, and she is willing to defy her family and do as she pleases. For example, after Romeo brings up marriage, Juliet goes on with the plan and says, “ Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. If that thy bent of love be honorable, Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, By one that I’ll procure to come to thee, Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite; And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay And follow thee my lord throughout the world. ” ( Romeo and Juliet 2.2.142-148 ). In these lines Juliet says that she will marry him if she gets told the plan by tomorrow, if everything he is saying about their marriage goes, then she will marry him. She plans to tell her parents that she is going to Friar Lawrence’s cell for confession. Friar Lawrence thinks Romeo is crazy for this because just a day ago, Romeo was crying to him about a girl named Rosaline who wouldn’t love him back. Although, Friar Lawrence goes along with this plan because he thinks this might end the family feud between the Capulets and Montagues. Juliet isn’t worried about what will happen though because she impulsively decides that this is meant to be and she

Romeo and Tybalt got into a feud because Tybalt killed Romeo’s best friend, Mercutio, and Tybalt got killed. When Juliet learns that Romeo is banished from the town of Verona, she is devastated, and she comes up with a plan to keep him in her life. Although, this comes with conflict because her father, Capulet, wants her to marry Paris that Thursday, little does he know, she is already in a secret marriage with the rival family’s son. Her and Friar Lawrence come up with this quick plan to think fast about that situation. Friar will give her a potion that makes her sleep for 42 hours, during those hours, her family will not know of this and they will think she is dead so that she physically cannot marry Paris, she will wake up with Romeo with her and run away to Mantua. If no plan works she claims she will kill herself. She says, “ Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it. If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, Do thou but call my resolution wise And with this knife I’ll help it presently. God joined my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands;And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo’s sealed, Shall be the label to another deed, Or my true heart with treacherous revolt Turn to another, this shall slay them both ” (4.1.50-59 ). She is so desperate in this situation to leave and be in love that she puts her life on the line, if Romeo dies, she includes that she will