Romeo and Juliet (How Impulsive People Are)

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“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare is one of the best plays written in English literature. It illustrates a universal truth about humanity; humans are very impulsive and foolish beings. It is a classic and tragic tale with a lot of truth about life. “Romeo and Juliet” shows us how impulsive and foolish human beings are. Romeo and Juliet, both were young teenagers and they meet one night and fall deeply in love. One night Romeo was crazily in love with Rosaline and depressed over her and then he meets Juliet and forgets all about Rosaline. This shows us how simple-minded most people are. They fall in love with the outer beauty of a person not their inner beauty. This occurs a lot with guys, but females are the same. Girls will fall head over heels for the gorgeous football player with the nice biceps and the six-packs, but not the nice guy that has always been there for them. He might lack a little bit of the looks, but he’s always the right guy who knows how to treat a girl right. Toward the end of the play, Romeo is so quick to act when he finds out Juliet is “dead.” The right thing for him would’ve been to contact a trustworthy person like the Friar, but instead he goes shopping for poison. Romeo like most guys doesn’t think before he acts. Juliet, like him was pretty stupid as well. She sees a dead Romeo and decides she doesn’t want to live either. She was fourteen at that time; her life hadn’t even begun yet. I’m fourteen just like Juliet; while I still can’t decide what color to choose for the bands on my braces, she was making decisions to die. If the play had an alternative ending and Romeo and Juliet didn’t die, what would Juliet have done if in twenty to thirty years Romeo died from a disease or old age? She’d still want to die with her Romeo, which would’ve been pretty foolish of her. When a loved one dies, you don’t die with them. Life still
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