As the revered English young-adult novelist Aidan Chambers, known for such novels as Postcards from No Man’s Land and Dance on My Grave once said, “When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings” (BrainyQuote). He was also known for his remarkably accurate depictions of adolescence in his novels for many around the globe, and for funding a writing “laboratory” for up-and-coming adolescent writers. And just as those stories are told, there needs to be the characters to tell them and give them justice. Romeo’s character is one who applies to that adolescent stereotype by being ignorant, just as Juliet is naïve, again fitting into a stereotypical adolescent
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By being so ignorant, he’s displaying a characteristic that we see in many adolescents. We see this characteristic again in someone who isn't an adolescent today too. Our current president, Donald Trump, has displayed that characteristic of ignorance as well. There’s a summit of a select few leaders from various countries, where tense international relations are discussed behind closed doors. One thing that was known about this year’s G7 summit, however, was that Trump showed up late. Just as Romeo seemed ignorant towards Rosaline by just forgetting all about her and switching gears in Juliet’s direction, Trump was ignorant by arriving late to a conference where he was to play a key role. By keeping with that ignorant characteristic, Trump didn’t look classy after that. Romeo continues to be ignorant later on in the book. He has been sent to Mantua for killing Tybalt in a fit of rage, and is forbidden from entering Verona ever again. If he does enter and is caught, he will be sentenced to death. He only sticks to the law as he was told that if he dies, then Juliet will die too. Their master plan to avoid Paris’ marriage and still run …show more content…
Act Two is arguably one of the best known scenes in all of literature. The balcony scene is revered among many and is easy to imagine thanks to the beautiful imagery Shakespeare employed. Romeo has just jumped over the brick wall around the Capulet Orchard, and has decided to wait and listen to Juliet talk to herself about what to do about her love for Romeo that she does not know how to express. Romeo decides to intervene and climbs up to the balcony she is on to talk to her and maybe work it all out. As soon as he does, she cannot get enough of him. As the Nurse yells from within the house, Juliet turns to Romeo and quickly says that “If that thy bent of love be honorable, Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow” (II. I. 143-144) Unfortunately for Juliet, she jumped into this a little quickly. By saying that “if thy bent of love be honorable”, she means that if he really means it, he can marry her. That’s where the characterization comes in. She really doesn’t understand quite yet how head-over-heels Romeo is in love with her, and decides that it’s probably going to be okay. She doesn’t quite get how much her actions really matter, which is exactly the definition of naivety, a characteristic of adolescence. Another example of that not realizing how much weight their actions have comes from the previous example,
By being so ignorant, he’s displaying a characteristic that we see in many adolescents. We see this characteristic again in someone who isn't an adolescent today too. Our current president, Donald Trump, has displayed that characteristic of ignorance as well. There’s a summit of a select few leaders from various countries, where tense international relations are discussed behind closed doors. One thing that was known about this year’s G7 summit, however, was that Trump showed up late. Just as Romeo seemed ignorant towards Rosaline by just forgetting all about her and switching gears in Juliet’s direction, Trump was ignorant by arriving late to a conference where he was to play a key role. By keeping with that ignorant characteristic, Trump didn’t look classy after that. Romeo continues to be ignorant later on in the book. He has been sent to Mantua for killing Tybalt in a fit of rage, and is forbidden from entering Verona ever again. If he does enter and is caught, he will be sentenced to death. He only sticks to the law as he was told that if he dies, then Juliet will die too. Their master plan to avoid Paris’ marriage and still run …show more content…
Act Two is arguably one of the best known scenes in all of literature. The balcony scene is revered among many and is easy to imagine thanks to the beautiful imagery Shakespeare employed. Romeo has just jumped over the brick wall around the Capulet Orchard, and has decided to wait and listen to Juliet talk to herself about what to do about her love for Romeo that she does not know how to express. Romeo decides to intervene and climbs up to the balcony she is on to talk to her and maybe work it all out. As soon as he does, she cannot get enough of him. As the Nurse yells from within the house, Juliet turns to Romeo and quickly says that “If that thy bent of love be honorable, Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow” (II. I. 143-144) Unfortunately for Juliet, she jumped into this a little quickly. By saying that “if thy bent of love be honorable”, she means that if he really means it, he can marry her. That’s where the characterization comes in. She really doesn’t understand quite yet how head-over-heels Romeo is in love with her, and decides that it’s probably going to be okay. She doesn’t quite get how much her actions really matter, which is exactly the definition of naivety, a characteristic of adolescence. Another example of that not realizing how much weight their actions have comes from the previous example,