While in the play Romeo and Juliet is about tragedy and drama, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s speech The Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent brain is about how an adolescent’s brain works. Based on Shakespeare’s tragedy story Romeo and Juliet there are six deaths in one whole week caused by Romeo’s mood swings. According to Blakemore’s TEDtalk adolescents prefrontal cortex is still developing. Blakemore believes that young kids don’t really think about the decisions they make and that they don’t really see the consequences. I agree with her because i do believe adolescents take a lot of dangerous risks. Blakemore’s thesis on adolescent development sheds light on some of the nonsensical decision making in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, as characters certainly face mood swings, brain development, and risk taking. To begin with, Romeo’s constant struggle results from his mood swings. Romeo is a boy who can’t control his emotions and is basically gets hurt and mad very easily. For example, …show more content…
They don’t really think about the consequences, they just do whatever they want to do. “How cam'st thou hither, tell me and wherefore? The orchard walls are high and hard to climb…” (2.2.66-69). According to this quote Romeo tries to climb the orchard wall to get to Juliet's balcony. Romeo and Juliet clearly sacrificed their security within their both families and both risked the wrath of both families by marriage. Juliet, even though she has to marry Paris she decides to marry Romeo who she supposedly loves. Another example, “ What if it be a poison, which the friar subtly hath minister’d to have me dead, l’est in his marriage he should be dishonoured”(4.3.27-29). According to this quote from the story, Juliet had some doubts about the poison Friar Laurence gave her, but drinks it anyways. She just thought about negative things that could happen, but since she really wanted her plan to work she did what she had to
In Romeo and Juliet, there are many guilty parties that contribute to the deaths and demise of Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, Tybalt, Count Paris and the many other victims of the bitterness and grudge between the Capulets and the Montagues. However, the three most culpable parties are the set of opposing parents; the Montagues and Capulets, the prince; Escalus of Verona and ultimately the lovers, Romeo and Juliet. The blame lies mostly on these three parties because their decisions greatly influenced the outcome of this Shakespearean tragedy. In this essay, I will prove and condemn the prince, parents and lovers for the losses of life and the confusion in Romeo and Juliet.
The Deaths of Romeo and Juliet Was it just one person’s fault, or a mixture? In this essay, I will include many different reasons as to why Romeo and Juliet die. I will explain in detail each point and put forward my own opinions. I will use quotes to back up each point and explain why the historical context is relevant.
In this essay I will be discussing my opinion of who is to blame for
The choices Romeo and Juliet make are poor, and eventually resulted in their death. Getting married, killing Tybalt, and thinking with hastyness were all poor choices that lead to both of their deaths. Once in a while making bad choices doesn’t affect someone as much, but making then many times regularly does affect one’s life. This teaches people that we must think our actions through before committing them.
Romeo and Juliette is a story about a boy and a girl from feuding families in Verona, Italy, that takes place in the mid-to-late 1500s and ends when both lovers commit suicide. It makes you wonder what other characters had a hand in their tragic deaths, like the Friar Lawrence, who married them, Juliette’s nurse, who kept quiet, or even Romeo, who was impatient. Some of their actions point towards being partially responsible for Romeo and Juliette’s untimely ends.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet demonstrate the ignorance and susceptibility of men to making impulsive decisions without considering the consequences.
The story people adore; Romeo falls for Juliet and they get married. They are forced into hiding which leads to Juliet pretending to be dead. The love struck Romeo kills him self, when Juliet awakes to actually kill herself, a fantasized love story. However another side to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet tragedy that fans don't look at is who is responsible. The dominant male characters, Friar Laurence, Lord Capulet, and Romeo are most at blame for the story.
In conclusion, in the play Romeo and Juliet both Romeo and Juliet make decisions that, because of their adolescents are quick and are not thought through which really affects their lives and those of the people close to them. In this day and age you see people who are making bad decisions, for example the use of drugs and underage drinking. The decision to do these things is most of the time done by people who are adolescents. These people dont think about the real consequences that it could have later in their live or event the damage that it does to their bodies right now. These people do it without
In William Shakespeare’s most well-known play, “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare illustrates an emotional tragedy by using through the behaviors of Romeo and Juliet’s behavior. Doomed upon falling in from love at first sight, the lives of two teenage lovers were eventually lost. Modern studies suggest that teenage behavior can be explained by is created due to the dramatic changes the brain undergoes at the age of adolescence. Since decision- making is vital in the teenage years, more options and opportunities tend to lead to better choices.
One of the most common character tropes is the moody, teenage sibling who’s always in trouble and fighting with the parents. Teenagers are often stereotyped as reckless and emotional. They take too many chances and act like everything is the end of the world. Young adults are constantly experimenting and taking risks, but what is the force behind their actions? During adolescence, the areas in the brain controlling reward processing and control begin to change. According to neuroscientist Laurence Steinburg, the shift creates an imbalance between emotion and restraint (Sukel, 46). The play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, focuses on the teenager, Romeo, during a dramatic period of his life. He faces many difficult situations involving love
In William Shakespeare's tragedy, "Romeo and Juliet", the two teenage lovers experience normal behaviors exhibited by adolescents. Romeo and Juliet cannot be blamed for being impulsive or dramatic. From a spontaneous proposal to threatening suicide, the only things to blame are their undeveloped, teenage brains. Romeo displays extreme impulsiveness throughout the play. According to Sara Johnson, an assistant professor at the Joh Hopkins Bloomberg School of public health, "The brakes come online somewhat later than the accelerator of the brain."
Shakespeare's play of “Romeo and Juliet” is well known, and leaves the audience asking: Who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Most of the play’s characters closely related to Romeo and Juliet carry some responsibility, but there are three characters or groups who had the greatest influence on the story’s outcome. Friar Laurence could be blamed for marrying them and keeping it secret. Juliet’s nurse encouraged Romeo’s pursuit of Juliet, even helping Juliet sneak out to marry. Last and most deserving of blame, however, are the parents, Lord and Lady Capulet and Lord and Lady Montague. If not for the family feud and hatred, Romeo and Juliet would’ve lived, not tasting the bittersweetness of death.
It's also involved in social interaction, understanding other people, and self-awareness” (Document A). While this may seem inconclusive at how it may have caused the death of Romeo and Juliet, it shows the amount of development youth are engaged in and how limited their abilities are at a younger age. It may cause them to make irrational decisions sometimes, but this is just because their brain is continuing to develop. As the speaker
The human brain isn’t the quickest maturing organ in the body. The brain has many parts to it, this complex organ matures at its own pace and so do the parts of the brain. Meaning all the parts of the brain mature at a different pace, some mature quicker some mature slower. Therefore, a human, in the process of becoming an adult, have poor decision making during their teenage years. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet’s actions are based on their adolescent brain development.
To many, Romeo and Juliet is a tale of love filled with teenage angst, peer pressure, and excessive violence, yet so many love it. Why? Perhaps it is because so many young adults deal with similar issues relating to depression, anxiety, and struggles with peer pressure and emotions. Although we are now in the twenty-first century, it seems that adolescent emotions have stayed relatively similar, that is, difficult to control and understand. There were many teen issues that led to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet such as peer pressure, depression, and rebellion all of which are still prevalent in today’s society.