Virtue vs Vice in Romeo and Juliet

In conclusion, all these characters prove that all men have their certain virtues, but if not regarded carefully, these same virtues can and will lead to our downfall. He is wrong, however, because the reason Juliet is grieving is not for Tybalt, but for Romeo. In the end, his passion, originally beautiful in his love for Juliet, turns bad when it leads to his demise.

Juliet is another character with a virtue, her impulsiveness, which turns corrupt. To live an unstained wife to my sweet love” (IV, i, 87). His fatherly concern for Juliet later also causes more problems. / Let two more summers wither in their pride/Ere we may think her ripe to a bride” (I, i, 9-11). then goes straight to the apothecary and retrieves the poison. After Tybalt is killed by Romeo, when Juliet is upset, he says that she and Paris will be married whether she wants it or not, because he believes that the sooner the marriage, the sooner Juliet will cheer up. In the scene on her balcony after the party, Juliet says to Romeo, “By one that I’ll procure to come to thee,/ Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite,/ And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay,/ And follow thee my lord my lord throughout the world” (II, ii, 144-147). She goes to Friar Lawrence trying to find a way to be with Romeo and not marry Paris. Another time when Juliet’s impulsiveness is a vice is after Romeo is banished and Lord Capulet is forcing her to marry Paris. She tells him, “Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble-/And I will do it without fear or doubt.