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Romeo And Juliet Impulsive Quotes Analysis

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Famous singer-songwriter, Sinéad O’Connor once said “When you’re young, you don’t really know quite what you’re aiming at. You’re very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you’re kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction”(BrainyQuote). Adolescents typically make impulsive decisions when influenced by something important to them. Romeo and Juliet’s families are enemies, yet they fall in love in the matter of five days and make a impulsive decision to get married which end up costing them their lives. Romeo gets exiled and says he would rather die than be without Juliet and when Romeo does end up killing himself Juliet does the same because she will not live without Romeo. In Romeo and Juliet, William …show more content…

Friar Lawrence tells Romeo he is exiled. Romeo thinks Friar Lawrence should “be merciful, [and] say ‘death’; for exile hath more terror in his look, much more than death. Do not say ‘banishment’”(III.III. 12-14). Romeo does not want to live without Juliet. He is dramatic and believes that if he cannot live with her there would be no point in living. Teenagers love is more lust than anything, but when it may be torn away from them they say and do irrational things out of impulse and anger. Romeo is talking to Friar Laurence and Romeo believes that exile is worse than death because “every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her; But Romeo may not”(III.III.30-34). Everything else that lives in Verona may see Juliet, but Romeo cannot because he is banished. He would rather die than live without her. When based on love adolescents sometimes do things they may not mean. Romeo does not realize that exile is better than death, but in his state of mind of anger he cannot see that. Romeo acts impulsively when he is exiled because he refuses to live without

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