Romeo And Juliet Haste Quotes
Haste and Disregard in Romeo and Juliet
Kevin Anderson
Mr.Plouffe
ENG1D
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Shakespeare was one of the Elizabethan era’s greatest playwrights. Some of his plays
were very tragic. An example of this is Romeo and Juliet. In the play, haste has a large
role in the tragic outcome of some of the main personalities. Many of the main characters
in the play are guilty of disregarding long term consequences and acting out of haste,
leading to their untimely demise. Examples of these characters are Juliet, Mercutio, and
Romeo.
In the play, Juliet is young and incidentally remains so forever. Her age however cannot
cover up the faults she …show more content…
The second example of haste for Mercutio occurs in scene 2 act 3
when he accepts the challenge from Tybalt for Romeo. This is extremely important to the
tragic outcome of the plot because if Mercutio hadn’t accepted the challenge on behalf of
Romeo he wouldn’t have died as a result, preventing all the calamity that occurs as a
result. The last example of disregard and haste is a quote: “Will you pluck your sword out
of his pitcher by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out.”(
III,I,77-79). This quote shows that haste is not only presented with a meaning related to
haste but also violence, the reason this is relevant to disregard is because Mercutio knows
Tybalt has a short temper yet he provokes him nonetheless. Ultimately, Mercutio brought
his death upon himself through hasty decisions and disregard which is very surprising
because although seeming like a foil at first he turns out to be very wise in many ways. In
some ways even more so than Romeo.
Being in the title of a tragedy one would expect that Romeo will be a part of
Kevin Anderson
Mr.Plouffe
ENG1D
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Shakespeare was one of the Elizabethan era’s greatest playwrights. Some of his plays
were very tragic. An example of this is Romeo and Juliet. In the play, haste has a large
role in the tragic outcome of some of the main personalities. Many of the main characters
in the play are guilty of disregarding long term consequences and acting out of haste,
leading to their untimely demise. Examples of these characters are Juliet, Mercutio, and
Romeo.
In the play, Juliet is young and incidentally remains so forever. Her age however cannot
cover up the faults she …show more content…
The second example of haste for Mercutio occurs in scene 2 act 3
when he accepts the challenge from Tybalt for Romeo. This is extremely important to the
tragic outcome of the plot because if Mercutio hadn’t accepted the challenge on behalf of
Romeo he wouldn’t have died as a result, preventing all the calamity that occurs as a
result. The last example of disregard and haste is a quote: “Will you pluck your sword out
of his pitcher by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out.”(
III,I,77-79). This quote shows that haste is not only presented with a meaning related to
haste but also violence, the reason this is relevant to disregard is because Mercutio knows
Tybalt has a short temper yet he provokes him nonetheless. Ultimately, Mercutio brought
his death upon himself through hasty decisions and disregard which is very surprising
because although seeming like a foil at first he turns out to be very wise in many ways. In
some ways even more so than Romeo.
Being in the title of a tragedy one would expect that Romeo will be a part of