Young romances can bring the experience of compelling desire and memories for a special someone, but it can also act as a more sinsiter and unintended purpose. The suicidal impulse that both Romeo and Juliet exhibit relate to the overall theme of young love by showcasing their impulsive actions in the highlights of passion. Throughout the drama, “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare features multiple instances in which he seems to support the consideration of a self-destructive tendency inextricably being connected with love. When looking at the many situations in which the suicidal impulses are directly affiliated with their self-destructive tendency, it is shown that it is in fact linked with love, and not
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This change only occurs after her meeting with Romeo, and this change in attitude and actions is not a coincidence. With this heavy influence of young love at her age- she is still not fully developed in rational decision making- she is thus drawn to to the inevitable conclusion that death is the only solution to her problems. When her father forces her to marry Paris, she goes into a craze in which there are only two solutions: get out of marrying Paris or killing herself. For example, “Be not so long to speak, I long to die/ If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy” (4. 1. 66-67). She is so heavily influenced by the promise of “true love” that her resulting actions are due to lack of good judgement. She feels the need to meet with the Friar for help, where she threatens to kill herself if he could not create a solution. This panic that Juliet experiences was not evident previously before the meeting of Romeo, and only after does she start to show signs of her unruly and irrational conduct and decision making. Through these hasty decisions does this self-destructive tendency reveal itself in the behavior of the two young …show more content…
When Romeo saw Juliet supposedly dead in the tomb, he missed very important details in Juliet’s features that should have led him to the truth. However, his own blindness and uncontrollable anguish at losing his love prevented that. As stated by Romeo, “Is crimson in thy lips and thy cheeks/ And death’s pale flag is not advanced there” (5. 3. 95-6). Overtaken in his grief at loss in love, he did not see the truth staring at him in the face. This ultimately led to his undoing, as he had clearly been aware of the features that told of life as opposed to death. Due to his frenzied state, it results in his self destruction. This conclusion occurs as a result of his own crazed emotions from the guidance of young love, which shows Romeo’s suicidal impulse, including the connection between young love to a self-destructive tendency. The fact that Shakespeare includes Romeo’s state of mind to the supposed death of Juliet shows the impact of their relationship. With these two pieces hand in hand, self-destructive tendency and love relates to each other as a whole, and not as two separate issues. Without this loss and its affiliation to their infatuation with each other, the conviction of death as the only choice would not have been put upon
This change only occurs after her meeting with Romeo, and this change in attitude and actions is not a coincidence. With this heavy influence of young love at her age- she is still not fully developed in rational decision making- she is thus drawn to to the inevitable conclusion that death is the only solution to her problems. When her father forces her to marry Paris, she goes into a craze in which there are only two solutions: get out of marrying Paris or killing herself. For example, “Be not so long to speak, I long to die/ If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy” (4. 1. 66-67). She is so heavily influenced by the promise of “true love” that her resulting actions are due to lack of good judgement. She feels the need to meet with the Friar for help, where she threatens to kill herself if he could not create a solution. This panic that Juliet experiences was not evident previously before the meeting of Romeo, and only after does she start to show signs of her unruly and irrational conduct and decision making. Through these hasty decisions does this self-destructive tendency reveal itself in the behavior of the two young …show more content…
When Romeo saw Juliet supposedly dead in the tomb, he missed very important details in Juliet’s features that should have led him to the truth. However, his own blindness and uncontrollable anguish at losing his love prevented that. As stated by Romeo, “Is crimson in thy lips and thy cheeks/ And death’s pale flag is not advanced there” (5. 3. 95-6). Overtaken in his grief at loss in love, he did not see the truth staring at him in the face. This ultimately led to his undoing, as he had clearly been aware of the features that told of life as opposed to death. Due to his frenzied state, it results in his self destruction. This conclusion occurs as a result of his own crazed emotions from the guidance of young love, which shows Romeo’s suicidal impulse, including the connection between young love to a self-destructive tendency. The fact that Shakespeare includes Romeo’s state of mind to the supposed death of Juliet shows the impact of their relationship. With these two pieces hand in hand, self-destructive tendency and love relates to each other as a whole, and not as two separate issues. Without this loss and its affiliation to their infatuation with each other, the conviction of death as the only choice would not have been put upon