Romeo's Character

Romeo is respected in Verona. Even lord Capulet who is head of the house that apposes the Montagues calls him “a virtuous and well governed youth”. Obviously Romeo does not always ruled by these moods. This suggests that, before he became stuck on Rosaline, Romeo was a popular, lively member of the upper class of Verona.

Romeo is very hot headed and he doesn’t think things through before acting on them this is the main reason that this story ends in tragedy. When Tybalt kills his best friend he reacts almost immediately by duelling him, which results in his exile. Also in act 5 scene 1 when he decide he will go buy poison and kill himself in Juliet’s tomb if there had been a little delay he would have known the truth about Juliet. On the other hand it is the same quality that lets him fall in love with Juliet so deeply and so fast.