Romeo and Juliet : Emotion+Shakespeare=EXCESS

Romeo is a fellow who just seems to have an addiction to emotion. Lots of Romeo’s lines are with immense quantities of emotion. When Romeo is describing his love for Rosaline he is just pouring emotion into his speech. He says

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;

Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ ayes;

Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears.

What is it else? A madness most discreet," (I, i, 188-191)

The emotion put into this is ridiculously excessive.

Further on in the scene he continues his emotional outbursts.

"With Cupid’s arrow: she hath Dian’s wit;

And, in strong proof of chastity well arm’d,

. . .

Ah, sirrah, this unlook’d-for sport comes well. He is using excessive emotion to make his party more enjoyable. After Lady Capulet finds her, the nurse begins shouting and laughing and fooling around. This outburst is the famous Queen Mab speech;

"Her chariot is an empty hazelnut

Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,

Time out o‘ mind the fairies coachmakers" (I, iv, 59-60)

Soon after this awful display of emotion and nonsense, Romeo tells him to stop his babbling to everyone’s delight. " (I, v, 74-75, 90-91)

Tybalt says that he will get Romeo for no real reason at all.

In Conclusion, many of the characters in Romeo And Juliet have tendencies to over exaggerate their emotions and sometimes this is for the worse.

"It fits when a villain is a guest;

I’ll not endure him. In the movie, we see more emotion then what’s listed in the book, but that does not matter. Tybalt, the nurse, Capulet, Mercutio and Romeo show this excess of emotion the most in act one. Everything, to him is a joke, just waiting to be made or punned upon. Tybalt is excessively emotional and has let his rage blind his view. " (I, v, 26-29)

He is yelling, commanding and shouting for people to dance, work, lift and move.

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