At critical
points in the play,advises restraint and cool consideration, though neithernor the other
characters in the play are terribly good at either. Wisely and slow, they stumble that run
fast, he tells Romeo after seeing Romeo practically bounce with joy at his agreement to marry .
Then three scenes later he cautions, These violent delights have violent ends. Romeo in
particular proves the friar right.
Later in the play Romeo jumps into the
duel betweenand , and inadvertently causes Mercutios death: Why the devil came you between us?
scolds Mercutio, I was hurt under your arm! Romeos headstrong behavior, though well intended,
causes a fatality. Later on, in s tomb, distraught at seeing what he has every reason to believe
is her dead body, he poisons himself, just moments too soon €“ Juliet wakes up almost as soon as
he dies. Tragically, in both cases, he lets his storm of emotions run fast, and both times
they lead to violent ends.
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