Impulsiveness In Shakespeare's The Tragedy Of Romeo And Juliet

Everyone can point fingers to anyone in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Almost everyone is to blame, but three stand out the most: Fate, the Capulets and the Montagues, and Romeo. To me, I think Romeo clearly takes the blame because of his impulsiveness. Romeo’s impulsiveness can cause bad decisions and bad effects towards himself and others. The first of the two is the “two households, both alike in dignity”, the Capulets and the Montagues. The two households had a feud against each other for some unknown reason. The Capulets and Montagues had a fight when they see each other, especially the teenage boys in each family. When the two households fight, they cause trouble in the city of Verona. The feud between these two households will play …show more content…
Another example is the chain of events near the end of the story when Romeo and Juliet died. Romeo gets misinformed news that Juliet is dead, Friar John fails to send the letter to Romeo telling him that Juliet is not dead, Romeo buys poison and goes to Juliet, Romeo kills himself, Juliet wakes up, Friar Lawrence appears then runs away, and Juliet kills herself. These are the chain of coincidences that caused the two lovers to take their own lives. If one of these coincidences change the slightest then the end result will be completely different. And lastly, we have Romeo, the impulsive teenage boy who literally married a thirteen year girl after a day they met and also when Romeo lost interest in Rosaline he asked Friar Lawrence to marry Juliet(Friar Lawrence said yes because he thinks it could end the feud). Romeo is impulsive because when he got the news that Juliet is dead from Balthasar, he acts on impulse and goes back to Verona to see her, also he acted so violently when Mercutio dies and kills Tybalt, and there is many more examples and reasons that makes Romeo the one to