Bad Advice In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a play that contains universal themes. During the play Friar Lawrence says to Romeo before the wedding that “this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your households’ rancour to pure love” (II.iii.91-92), which is a piece of bad advice that led to a disaster for a different character in the play. Something like this also happened in Laura Langston’s The Art Of Getting Stared At. Bad advice of one individual created a monumental disaster for another. Sloane starts losing her hair and gets diagnosed with alopecia areata, she then struggles with keeping her disease a secret and begins focusing on her appearance. Sloane takes her stepmother's advice and decides to get a wig that is attached to a ball cap. During Sloanes laughter flash mob shoot for the video, the wig falls off. Sloane starts losing her hair and gets diagnosed with alopecia areata. “A pile of hair came out when I showered.” (Langston49), Sloane got frantic and nervous when she noticed an abnormal amount of her hair falling out. She checked to make sure that she did not have any bald spots, however she did in fact find three. She went to a specialist and …show more content…

“Damn I can’t take my hat off.” (Langston79). Sloane finds things to cover up her head and gets worried people will judge her if they found out, so she decides to keep her disease a secret. Sloanes stepmother, Kim, takes her to a wig fitting to find Sloane some more natural looking choices to hide her hair loss “I am surrounded by hair and mirrors.” (Langston233). Sloane begins losing her facial hair starting with her eyebrows and decides to draw them on with makeup, and eventually gets them tattooed on “Makeup saves lives too.” (Langston278). Sloane was brought up to not care about appearance and to focus on intelligence. She is now changing these priorities so she doesn't get judged and stereotyped as a

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