"Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast." Friar Lawrence states this quote in the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, which shows the concern of two teenagers falling in love too quickly. In the tragic play Romeo and Juliet the extreme action taken by the two lovers suggests that their love was too rash and would never have lasted due to Romeo being in love with another woman in the beginning of the play and falling in love with Juliet immediately, how Juliet so quickly forgave Romeo for the death of Tybalt, and the forever feud and dangers that would come from their families with this relationship. In the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, the main male protagonist, Romeo, is deeply in love with a lady named Rosaline. Romeo …show more content…
Juliet says “O serpent heart hid with a flow’ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical! … Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st, A ⌜damnèd⌝ saint, an honorable villain. O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell. When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend. In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?” (Romeo and Juliet 3.2.79-88) This quote shows how Juliet thought that Romeo was so beautiful and perfect on the outside, but on the inside he had bad intentions. However, when the nurse speaks poorly of Romeo, Juliet is very quick to defend his name. Her cousin was just murdered by her husband without reason known to her, yet she still mourns …show more content…
Romeo's banishment is the cause of Juliet's grief. Since her parents are unaware of their daughter's love for Romeo, however, and of their marriage, which Friar Laurence performed the previous day—on the morning of the afternoon that Romeo killed Tybalt, in fact—they reasonably attribute her grief to Tybalt's death and assume that she hates Romeo for killing him.” This quote tells how the Capulets believe Juliet’s grief is over Tybalt and that she hates Romeo. This is not at all true due to the reader's knowledge. Juliet sided with her newly wed husband over her cousin because of love. “ Shall I speak ill of him, that is my husband?”(Romeo and Juliet 3.2.106) Juliet says to the nurse. Once Juliet finds out Romeo has been banished, she feels as if that is a worse punishment than Tybalt dying. Romeo and Juliet have only been wed for three hours, yet she believes that Romeo's banishment is worse than Tybalt’s