Passion without Reason The play “Romeo and Juliet” takes place over a very short span of time. Absolute bliss and abject despair are in constant competition, often violently or radically replacing one another. The characters are trapped in a whirlwind of events dictated by Romeo’s brash nature as well as a pervasive rush that finish in the double suicide of Romeo and Juliet. From the first scene’s spark of unreasonable violence follow Tybalt’…showed first 75 words of 1108 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1108 total…what he must, and revenges Mercutio’s death by slaying Tybalt. However, in doing so he has achieved exactly what he had tried to avoid by not accepting Tybalt’s challenge in the first place, which is the needless death of Juliet’s cousin. Romeo’s hasty passion has claimed two victims without reason, and the joy that had sprung from his swift emotion is now replaced by abject sorrow from the very same source.