Romeo And Juliet Haste Analysis

As the common saying goes, “haste makes waste,” and few literary pieces of work portray this more than Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. Characters in this play often act before thinking, frequently creating situations that end tragically and needlessly “wasteful” ending of young lives. No character falls victim to poor judgement more than Romeo. Romeo’s fatal flaw of rash behavior leads to the eventual tragic outcome of the play; these rash decisions include agreeing to marry Juliet, killing Tybalt, and committing suicide. Romeo is immature and is easily swayed by his feelings of love, which misguides him to make poor hasty decision. This character flaw is agreeing to marry Juliet after after falling in love with her from just a glance. Romeo first demonstrates this when describing his initial reaction to meeting Juliet. “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight,/For I ne’er saw true beauty till this …show more content…
Beauty’s ensign yet/Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,/And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.--” (5.3.92-96) Romeo, even seeing how Juliet is still beautiful, not pale and still has “crimson” color to the lip and cheeks, does not stop to question that perhaps Juliet is not really dead. Instead he acts rashly and decides a quick death with poison. This is the penultimate of Romeo’s brash decisions with no thought. Following his knee-jerk reaction to Juliet’s supposed death caused his own death, and later Juliet’s actual death. If Romeo had simply waited to receive confirmation or even word from Friar Lawrence, he would not have killed himself. Romeo’s fatal flaw of rash behavior leads to the eventual tragic outcome of the play; these rash decisions include agreeing to marry Juliet, killing Tybalt, and committing suicide. His tendency to be ruled by emotions of love and anger hurt both himself and those he holds dear. In his haste to achieve happiness, he lays waste to himself, his family, his friends, and his