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Romeo And Juliet Foolishness

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What is so fascinating about Romeo and Juliet? Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragedy, and a very famous play that helps us understand literature with a new perspective that is about two lovers that are in separate clashing worlds which doesn’t allow them to be together. This play contains many characters with different personalities. In Romeo and Juliet, there are many characters that act foolish and irrationally throughout the play like Romeo, Juliet, and Mercutio. Romeo is known for thinking irrationally and is far from being wise. He makes numerous mistakes throughout the play. This is shown when Shakespeare writes, “Alive in triumph, and Mercutio slain! / Away to heaven, respective lenity, / and fire-eyed fury bemy conduct …show more content…

She would try out many plans and not think about who else she is affecting. For example, “My dismal scene I needs must act alone. / Come, vial. / What if this mixture do not work at all?” (Shakespeare 4.3.20-22). This displays her dangerous plan to pretend she is dead without thinking about the havoc and grief she would cause. Another quote would be, “What’s here? A cup closed in my true love’s hand? / Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.-- / O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop” (Shakespeare 5.3.166-168). This quote exhibits the consequence she had to face once she went through with her scheme. She didn't get what she was striving for from the beginning and instead Romeo killed himself when he thought Juliet was …show more content…

He tends to get hot headed and wants to fight with anyone. Shakespeare says, “Good king of cats, nothing but one of your / nine lives, that I mean to make bold withal, and, as/ you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the / eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his plicher / by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your / ears ere it be out” (Shakespeare 3.1.78-83). In this quote, Mercutio is heating the argument over something he didn't quite understand. He doesn't stop to think that he is acting impulsive and foolish. To prove this idea, he uses, “No, ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as / a church door, but ‘tis enough. ‘Twill serve. Ask for / me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I / am peppered, I warrant, for this world. [...] I was hurt under your arm” (Shakespeare 3.1.100-108). His impulsive decisions has led him to death. He didn't care to think what might happen or what he heard was wrong, so he suffered the

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