The tragic story that unfolds in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is known all over the world. Although Shakespeare was not a teenager when he wrote the story, he seems to have a good understanding of the adolescent brain, and how it is constantly growing and developing. Nowadays, there are many studies that have been done to find out how the teenage brain works, but Romeo and Juliet shows that Shakespeare was ahead of his time in his knowledge of how teenagers think and act. There are many examples within the play that show how Romeo and Juliet’s developing adolescent brains could have caused them to be more impulsive, have heightened emotions, and engage in more risky behavior.
Immaturity can spread throughout things and people creating problems for the present and future. Similarly, Romeo and Juliet not only shows the development of love, but the development of immaturity that leads to the story being tragic. Often humans develop to become mature, but the totalness of immaturity in this story, makes the process go backwards. From Romeo and Juliet’s fast evolving relationship to the hate between the two family’s, the ignorance of thought in different characters is portrayed well in the story. Therefore, the theme of this sad story is to think more diligently and reasonably before taking action, and overall grow from the past.
Immaturity can spread throughout things and people creating problems for the present and future. Similarly, Romeo and Juliet not only shows the development of love, but the loss of maturity that leads to tragedy. People develop maturity, but the amount of immaturity makes the process go backwards. From Romeo and Juliet’s fast evolving relationship to the hate between the two families, and the lack of thought in different characters is recurrent throughout the story. Therefore,the theme of Romeo and Juliet evolves around the idea of immaturity.
I have chosen to analyze a passage on page 109 from line 1-10. In this passage Romeo looks up at Juliet's window hoping to catch a glimpse of her. He compares Juliet to the sun and prays that it's not the maid that is the light "through yonder window breaks". Shakespeare uses a mix of both enjambment and caesura (line 3, line 6 & line 9) in this particular passage. He uses personification, saying that the moon is envious and therefore should be killed. The reference begins an extended-metaphor that plays upon the association of the moon goddess, Diana, with virginity.
Some people say love makes people do crazy things, in this case it’s adolescent brain development. “Romeo and Juliet” is tragic drama written by William Shakespeare that tells a story about two tenneagers who met on Sunday, got married on Monday, and caused six deaths by Thursdays. The acts of the irrational teens can be explained by MRI researcher Sarah- Jayne Blakemore. As stated by Ms.Blakemore her research says that the prefrontal cortex is still growing and developing. The continued growth drives to risk taking, uncontrollable impulsive behavior, easily embarrassed, impress friends, excessive mood swings, and self-consciousness. My thesis on adolescent brain development sheds light on some of the nonsensical decision making is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, as characters certainly face the impulse control, self-consciousness, and risk taking.
Imagine being married at 13 years old to a man with no experience . Romeo and Juliet were two love birds that were married at a young age with to different revolting families. Although Romeo and Juliet shared love and passion for each other , it is without a doubt that they should have not been married because it caused death to family member , the families hated each other , and it caused Romeo and Juliet their death.
Romeo was many different types of emotions such as bipolar or depressed but to me, I think that Romeo was mostly impatient in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The meaning of inpatient is restlessly eager. Throughout the entire story Romeo was showing signs of impatience and did not think about what he was going to do next. There were many scenes where Romeo was being impatient and the first time was when he decided to go off and marry Juliet. They rushed into the marriage which caused friction in the households. Another way that Romeo was impatient was when he killed Tybalt. Romeo literally did not think and killed Tybalt. The final reason was when Romeo finds out Juliet was dead and he immediately
In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, young love takes Romeo on a roller coaster of different emotions from agonizing heartbreak to infatuating joy Romeo aches for his first love Rosaline as she tears his heart out of his body causing Romeo to feel a gaping hole in his chest and the act of depression. As well as this, Romeo finds joy in meeting his second love Juliet soon after who he is physically attracted to and will do anything to prove his undying magical love for her.
Do you believe in love at first sight? Romeo and Juliet did and it lead to both of their deaths. Romeo believed that he was in love, a feeling he had never truly felt before. As a young teen, you could expect that he would make some irrational decisions, but nothing like what he did to be with who he believed to be his true love. Romeo Montague 's fatal flaw was his impulsiveness due to falling in love and marry Juliet, becoming a murderer, and taking his own life .
The physical appearance of Romeo is never described in the original text by William Shakespeare, but we do know that he is a handsome young man, around sixteen years old. His personality can be described as intelligent, but he’s also impulsive and immature, however what makes Romeo such a great character, is his strong passion and love for Juliet. As we know, this is quite a big problem as Romeo is a Montague, and Juliet is a Capulet.
Do humans have free will? Or, is our every action decided on by other people? In reality, almost every decision we make with our own individual conscious. The play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, is about two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, from rival families whose love caused unfortunate consequences for everyone around them. Romeo and Juliet were tragic heroes whose deaths are caused by their own faults and inability to make decisions without minor characters telling them what to do.
All actions are influenced. Whether it's you working harder to make someone proud, or doing something to make someone angry. There is always an outside influence. I believe that the Capulet and Montague family is this outside influence that caused Romeo and Juliet to end their lives. They had driven the kids to this horrible solution with their constant rivalry, endless pressure to be perfect, and their quickness to judge. They are to blame for the saddening ending to this tragic love story.
There are many incidents that shows Juliet is more mature than Romeo. She is only 13 and he is between 15 and 17. She’s had more weight on her shoulders then he could ever imagine. She changed and became more mature when she decided to marry Romeo. She had to, because she was now a wife to her enemy, and couldn’t risk getting caught. Her parents were already planning to marry her off at 13. She was supposed to look at Paris and see if she liked him at the party. She found Romeo instead and instantly fell in love. She never told her parents she didn 't like him, so silence is compliance. She went day to day wondering if she was ever going to see Romeo again. She was a daddy’s girl, so she was only allowed out of the house to go to church. Yes,
Romeo and Juliet is a timeless tale of star-crossed lovers and epic tragedy. The way William Shakespeare wrote about the love has been read through out time. Shakespeare’s writing dabbled onto topics such as suicide, lust, jealousy and impulsive love. He carefully chose Romeo and Juliet’s ages for a
Juliet is 14 which is the age that stands between immaturity and maturity. Juliet is known as a child in the play and ends as a women.