Romeo And Juliet Emotional Analysis

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"These violent delights have violent endings", William Shakespeare. In a certain level, passion can fuel a person to do something courageous but over powering passion could place them in a difficult situation. Mostly, it is the extreme emotions that direct people's thoughts. Intense sentiments of love, lust, grief and anger, snatches the practicality of oneself. In William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, he exaggerates how strong emotions could lead one to do unnecessary and foolish actions when one faces a complicated situation and it is either their logic or emotions that take control of their decisions. He then demonstrated the impactful consequences of choosing to be overthrown by their emotions.
Intense emotions like love or lust,
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For example, in act 2 scene 2 " I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say 'It lightens.' " Juliet was thrilled to see Romeo but she mentions that their love was rushed. She analyzed their situation more than Romeo has, but slowly her feelings for Romeo somehow dulled her senses. She proposed to him which she just met him that very night. Juliet, in the eyes of Shakespeare, was someone whose disposition of marriage was " an honor that she dreamed not of ". She was too naïve to understand the abstruse concept of a hypergamous marriage and that portrays her immaturity. The importance of her marriage with Paris was …show more content…
Shakespeare exhibits his sentiment towards the effects of lament to oneself. Romeo executes immense amounts of irrational actions when faced with affliction. In act 5 scene 1, Romeo spoke, "Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight." he revealed that by nightfall he would die beside Juliet. Shakespeare verified his views, that "violent delights have violent endings ". Romeo fell deeply for Juliet that her death brought great sorrow and with that steered him to the idea of death. It was injudicious of him to not take time to consider the effects of his