Hello, I am supposed to write an essay in English about Romeo's flaw. I wrote it and i want to know how i can improve it and if I did okay or not. I am in the 9th grade
“Romeo and Juliet” is a play by William Shakespeare. In the play, Romeo has a flaw because he seems to be too emotional. He acts quickly and impulsively, so that his actions are not thought out thoroughly. Romeo could’ve had a fairly happy ending if he didn’t commit suicide right after Juliet’s “death”. Juliet’s commits suicide also when she sees Romeo dead. Another flaw in Romeo is that he gets sad and depressed a lot in the play. If Romeo controlled his emotions a little bit, there might have not been a tragedy at all.
In this play, Romeo is always miserable and downcast, Also Romeo is always in love, and when he falls in love, he doesn’t think about anything else. In Act I Romeo was in love with Rosaline and couldn’t stop thinking about her. He wandered around looking and acting depressed because Rosaline wasn’t interested in him. To cheer him up Romeo’s friends talk him into going to the Capulet’s Masquerade party. Before he goes he promises that he isn’t going to dance or have fun. So he goes to the party preparing to just watch the other people dance. While he is watching he sees this beautiful girl, at the instant he completely took Rosaline away from his mind. This is what Romeo ways when he first sees Juliet. “Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows as yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.”(I.IV.45-47) Romeo falls in love too quickly and easily.
A major flaw for Romeo is he acted quickly with every decision he made. When he saw Juliet for the first time he knew that she was the one he was going to marry. That night after the party, relying on his emotions. He jumped over the Capulet fence and went to Juliet’s balcony. When Juliet came out of her room he told her about his love for her. After talking for a few minutes, right before he left Romeo proposed. “The exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine.” (II.II.127) These two didn’t even know each other for a full day. They move quickly into their relationship deciding to get married the next day. Also another instance where Romeo acted impulsively was when he drank the poison when he found Juliet “dead.” If he had not been so overwhelmed and sad, Juliet would’ve lived and so would he. He should’ve thought things through before he decided to drink the poison.
Because of Romeo’s sadness of his banishment and Juliet, leads to his death and the death of other people. At the end of the play Lord Montague says that Lady Mongague “is dead to-night; Grief of my son’s exile hath stopp’d her breath…”(V.III.210-211). Because Romeo got banished from Verona, Lady Montague dies because of sadness. Because of Romeo’s fall it causes the downfall of Juliet, Tybalt, Mercutio, and Paris also. Romeo goes to Juliet’s tomb uses the potion and dies. This leads to the death of Juliet. Juliet sees Romeo dead; she takes his dagger out and kills herself. Romeo also causes he death of Mercutio, and Tybalt. If Romeo was not trying to make peace with Tybalt, Mercutio would not have tried to defend Romeo. Mercutio feels that Romeo is afraid to fight Tybalt and he wants to defend him. Romeo only wants to make peace with Tybalt because now he is related to him. Paris dies by trying to defend the Capulets tomb from Romeo. He thinks Romeo came to do something bad to the people in the tomb. "...to do some villainous shame To the dead bodies..."(V. III. 52-53) Paris dies trying do defend Juliet and the Capulets.
The flaw that seemed to appear most in the play was that Romeo always acted impulsively and quickly with out thinking. That got him into all the trouble. Basically the only way the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets the end is through the death of their own kids. They were paying for peace with their lives. If Romeo was a little bit older, he would’ve had the ability to think things more clearly rather than thinking impulsively.
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