The brain is to blame for rushed decisions made by adolescents. A teenager´s behavior and the choices they decide to make are often not through carefully enough. This is prevalent with the teens in Romeo and Juliet. According to the NIDA article options are chosen in an instant: “Decisions don't just happen automatically in your conscious mind. They stem from a series of events in the brain, which happen almost instantaneously.¨ Teenagers in Romeo and Juliet couldn't help their behavior. Their maturity was reliant on the underdeveloped brain. Without proper judgement tragedy can occur. Impulsive decisions lead to consequences. After Romeo’s encounter with Juliet at the party he believed he was in love with her, led by his desire Romeo decided
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The second Balthasar gave Romeo the news of Juliet’s death, Romeo decides he no longer has a will to live. Romeo emotionally decides his only option is to “lie” with Juliet, and seeking the Apothecary for his forbidden poison despite Mantua’s laws. As Romeo convinces the poor apothecary to sell him the toxin his true intentions are revealed: “There is thy gold-worse poison to men’s souls, / Doing more murder in this loathsome world, / Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. / I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. / Farewell. Buy food and thyself in flesh. / Come, cordial and not poison, go with me / To Juliet’s grave, for there must I use thee.” (5.1.80) His behavior is the effect of the early developed limbic system. This system played a massive role in how Romeo reacted to Juliet’s death. As the NIDA article explains this part of the brain becomes fully grown early on and how it affects one’s decisions: “Since the limbic system matures earlier, it is more likely to gain an upperhand in decision making. This relationship between the emotional center (limbic system) and control center (prefrontal cortex) helps to explain a teen’s inclination to rush decisions.” Romeo’s decision were made emotionally not logically. Ultimately his feelings got the best of him. The limbic system’s early development causes teens to become emotionally
The second Balthasar gave Romeo the news of Juliet’s death, Romeo decides he no longer has a will to live. Romeo emotionally decides his only option is to “lie” with Juliet, and seeking the Apothecary for his forbidden poison despite Mantua’s laws. As Romeo convinces the poor apothecary to sell him the toxin his true intentions are revealed: “There is thy gold-worse poison to men’s souls, / Doing more murder in this loathsome world, / Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. / I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. / Farewell. Buy food and thyself in flesh. / Come, cordial and not poison, go with me / To Juliet’s grave, for there must I use thee.” (5.1.80) His behavior is the effect of the early developed limbic system. This system played a massive role in how Romeo reacted to Juliet’s death. As the NIDA article explains this part of the brain becomes fully grown early on and how it affects one’s decisions: “Since the limbic system matures earlier, it is more likely to gain an upperhand in decision making. This relationship between the emotional center (limbic system) and control center (prefrontal cortex) helps to explain a teen’s inclination to rush decisions.” Romeo’s decision were made emotionally not logically. Ultimately his feelings got the best of him. The limbic system’s early development causes teens to become emotionally