Submitted by fishbill on 06/21/2008 07:39 AM Flag This Paper
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Have you ever failed something because you went to fast? This problem is recognized in the play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakspeare, when Friar Laurence says, “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.†This means that you will fail in something if you go fast and don’t think it fully through. From my personal consequences and the consequences in Romeo and Juliet, I agree with this statement. This troublesome problems perceived in many other works such as The Odyssey by Homer, but most importantly Romeo and Juliet.
In the works Romeo and Juliet characters act in haste by going too fast and not thinking things through. An example included in Romeo and Juliet. When Romeo is in the mortuary with Julia. In this scene Juliet is clearly alive, giving white stem and not having it smell rotten. Going fast and not thinking through the situation fully, Romeo has to drink the poison, which he obtained in the mortuary. As he drinks the poison and dies Juliet wakes up. This device that Shakespeare used shows that Romeo should have slowed down and waited a little longer with Juliet to conquer if she was really dead.
After this, Juliet immediately acts in haste and she kills herself with a dagger. Another example of going too fast is how Romeo and Juliet gets married. Romeo had met Juliet at a party when he went to see his former lover Rosaline. After a night of talking, they decide to get married. Both had accelerated way to fast not obtaining important information such as they were from separate royal families called Montagues and Capulets.
The situations Shakspeare wrote caused Romeo and Juliet to wed fast in haste. The consequences of acting fast lead both Romeo and Juliet to their fate.
The epic poem, The Odyssey by Homer shows characters acting too fast. One character that acted in haste was Odysseus’ mother. After a long hard and a long extended trip home by Odysseus. Odysseus’ mother couldn’t take her son not being home....