Dynamic Character In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo & Juliet Character Essay
Most people today can say that Romeo and Juliet is the basic and ground story on young love. A classic boy falls in love with the girl he would not be able to claim with a twist that doesn’t end in a happy ending. Although, Shakespeare shows that love is worth dying for he also shows that impulsive teenage behavior can make an impact in one’s life, and Romeo and Juliet is a perfect example of that. Romeo is one of the main characters of the play, and is very important to the whole plot. Romeo and his personality makes him a dynamic character is very important to the play. Romeo’s impulsive, loyal, poetic and passionate personality makes him a likeable character.

Romeo passionate and poetic, and he shows this from how he speaks. Such as when he was talks about how he could never be with Rosaline and how sad he is. “Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first created! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, …show more content…
He shows that he is loyal by avenging Mercutio after Tybalt killed him. One a very hot day, Mercutio and Tybalt began to quarrel and after Romeo got in the way to try and stop it, Tybalt stabs Mercutio. Romeo is very loyal to Mercutio by avenging him even if Tybalt was the uncle of Juliet. “But by and by comes back to Romeo,who had but newly entertained revenge, and to’t they go like lightning, for ere I could draw to part them was stout Tybalt slain” (III.ix. 135). Also by the act of dying instead of not being with Julie after t, Romeo proves his loyalty to her “Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;' for exile hath more terror in his look / Much more than death: do not say 'banishment’ ” (III.iii.12-14). Romeo says that banishment is basically death, indicating that to be without Juliet’s love and in her presence is worse than death

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