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Essay / Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet - 931
Relationships evolve as a human being evolves. In Shakespeare's time, relationships between humans were mainly based on impulse, but in modern times, humans do not tend to become impulsive at the beginning of the relationship to avoid any tragedy while learning stories past. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lovers' original relationship, their marriage and their suicides are the direct result of their impulsivity. The initial relationship between Romeo and Juliet is based on impulse. Romeo immediately chooses a lover without thinking about her. Romeo mopes about his past love. Romeo's past love is Rosaline. When Benvolio suggests to Romeo that he can Benvolio suggests that Romeo learn to forget Rosaline "By giving liberty to thine eyes; / Examine other beauties"(8), Romeo says that Rosaline is the fairest of all and that he will never be able to forget it (8). Romeo thinks that Rosaline is the love of his life and that he cannot live without Rosaline. He tries to find Rosaline in every girl he sees. This action of Romeo shows that he views love emotionally. On the other hand, Romeo forgets his first love when he first sees Juliet at the Capulet party. Romeo says to Juliet: “Oh, she teaches the torches to shine!” in the company of crows, as this lady shows on her comrades. Once the measure is done, I will watch over his place of stand, and, touching his, I will make my rough hand blessed. Has my heart loved until now? give it up, view! For I never saw true beauty until this night” (19-20). Now these actions of Romeo towards Juliet show that Romeo is very impulsive. If ...... middle of paper ...... finds out that Romeo is dead. Juliette doesn't think about the future. She can marry Paris and forget her three-day affair with Romeo. She can get out of Verona and try to find Romeo in her next love. Juliet's actions for her suicide are contrived, impulsive and thoughtless and the same as Romeo's actions for his suicide. If the start of the relationship is well thought out rather than impulsive, then the relationship will not end badly. The relationship between Romeo and Juliet was based on impulse, which is why the entire relationship only lasted a few days. If the relationship between Romeo and Juliet is well thought out at the beginning with the advice of their family, then they may not be dead within a few days of their relationship. Works Cited Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. New York: London: Dover; Constable, 1993. Print.