In William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet are doomed from the beginning, and the audience is completely aware of this from the prologue. Romeo makes all his decisions on impulse without much thought. Romeo has an impulsive disposition, which drives his actions throughout the play and ultimately leads him to take his own life and leads his wife, Juliet, to do the same. Romeo shows impulsiveness in several instances in Romeo and Juliet, showing that his impulsiveness is a very important part of him as a character. The first example is when he sees Juliet for the first time at the Capulets' party. As soon as he sees Juliet, he cries out: “Has my heart loved until now? Deny your sight! / For I had never seen true beauty until this night." (IV 50-51) All this Romeo says almost immediately after swearing that Rosaline is the most beautiful girl he had ever seen and that Rosaline was his one and only true love. The time period between love for Rosaline and Juliet is incredibly short. If it had never been drawn in my Juliet’...