Romeo+C

ANDY

Romeo is evidently culpable in innumerable ways, but the most noticeable include the following:

“I fear too early, for my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars/Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night’s revels, and expire the term / of a despised life closed in my breast / By some vile forfeit of untimely death. (1.4, 108-115)” Romeo had anticipated that he would be in some horrific quandary had he gone to the party. As evidenced by the context, it was a visceral feeling, one he should not have repressed. He only did so because he was both malleable and credulous.

“Out of her favor, where I am in love. (1.1, 161) Romeo should not have been enamored of Rosaline in the beginning, considering that she didn’t reciprocate his affection for her. He only saw Juliet for her pulchritude, which probably would not have occurred had he not been infatuated with someone so unsightly, at least in juxtaposition with Juliet.

“True, I talk of dreams, / Which are the children of an idle brain, / Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, (1.4, 97-100) Mercutio seems like a relatively erudite individual, considering the circumstances. Why wouldn’t Romeo give any credence to Mercutio? Despite having surrounded himself by sagacious people, Romeo is immutably bovine throughout the story.

(2.2, 49-188) I felt that expending the time and energy requisite for such an endeavor would be inutile. But I digress, as this also pertains to Romeo. Romeo, despite the obvious encumbrances to any possibility of a relationship with Juliet, is intransigent in his pursuit. In this interminable colloquy, Romeo is in fact corrupting, debauching, and subverting Juliet (and the rest of her clan, albeit while they are incognizant of this subterfuge). This scene is truly illustrative of the decadence and the iniquity the fair city has fallen into because of the feuding families.