Romeo And Juliet Impetuous Quotes

Do you know someone who has acted without thinking? In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Juliet is one of the main characters who falls in love and ends in a tragic death. Juliet is a tragic hero and her death could have been avoided if she wasn’t so impetuous. The character Juliet is impetuous throughout the whole play and her actions caught up to her. Juliet shows how impetuous she is when she is talking to herself about Romeo she says, “ O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet”(II,ii,36-39). She is impetuous here because she doesn’t think of the consequences of dating someone from a rivaling family. This is tragic because she has to keep her relationship with Romeo secret which causes problems

Juliet is also impetuous when she is talking to Friar Lawrence about not wanting to marry Paris she says, “O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower, Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk Where serpents are. Chain me with roaring bears … And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstained wife to my sweet love”(IV,i,78-90). Here she is impetuous because, if she didn’t cut to the chase with marrying Romeo and keeping it a secret, her parents wouldn’t be forcing her to marry Paris. This is tragic because her parents making her marry Paris made her fake her death which lead to Romeo killing himself. When Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo killed himself she says, “O happy dagger, this is thy sheath”(V,iii,175-175) In this quote Juliet kills herself because her impetuous actions that led