Question 1

What kind of young man is Romeo? What kind of young woman is Juliet? Why are they attracted to each other? Are they a good match?

1. Romeo and Juliet are two very interesting active characters. Romeo is not the type of person who does much thinking. He is a very spontaneous person who will not take no for an answer and makes sure that he gets what he wants. Juliet on the on the other hand is the type of person who will make sure that she gets what she wants, but at the same time she also tends to put a little bit more thought into what she is doing in order to make sure that she will for sure get what she is doing. Both of them do seem attracted to each other for good of their own enjoyment, but not for good of their own life, or for others enjoyment.

Romeo is the type of guy who finds someone he likes, or something about a person that he likes and then becomes obsessed with that one person or one feature. He also seems the type of guy who does something just because someone else tells him that he can not do it. For instance, Romeo knows that his family is not allowed to go to the Capulet’s party, yet he still ends up going.

Servant

Now I’ll tell you without asking: my master is the

great rich Capulet; and if you not be

of the house of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine.

Rest you merry!

Romeo

I’ll go alone, no such sight to be shown,

But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.

The idea here is also present in the way that Romeo and Juliet are both very eager to get married to each other, and both want to make sure that their marriage is final even though they know that getting what they want will cause a problem for everybody else. By getting married, Juliet knows that there is going to be a problem because Paris has already been promised to receive Juliet. She pre-meditates her own death just so she does not have to marry Paris, which means that she can marry Romeo. This in fact is what the story is famous for.

Both of these characters demonstrate various similarities to each other and in most if not all cases do not show any signs of dislike to each other. The only problem with this is the problem that I have stated earlier, Romeo and Juliet are good for each others enjoyment, but not for others or their own life. This type of relationship where Romeo and Juliet are so similar becomes troublesome when they both decide to make a bad choice and then they both agree with each other without even thinking about what they are really doing.

The end result is ultimately their death. The cause; Romeo was obsessed with Juliet, and Juliet did not want to marry Paris. The consequence; Neither of the two think about what they are doing, and fail to make communication to each other, which is the closest part of the cause to the result of Romeo’s death. In a sense, Juliet killed herself not only in the literal sense but in the logical sense because it was ultimately her choice to drink the fish poison, even though she may have had other external influences such as that of Friar Laurence, and the Nurse.

Friar Laurence

These violent delights have violent ends

And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,

Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey

Is loathsome in hos won deliciousness

And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Therefore love moderately; long love doth so

Enter JULIET

Here comes the lady: O, so light a foot

Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint:

A lover may bestride the gossamer

That idles in the wanton summer air,

And yet not fall; so light is vanity.