Infatuation In Romeo And Juliet

Almost identical, they come from two completely different eras but yet Romeo and Juliet still have so much in common with today’s audience. The whole play is like high school, so much infatuation thought of as love, so many terrible decisions. In the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare the two main characters are both realistic and relatable to today’s teenagers, as they exhibit the same actions when dealing with love and infatuation.
Romeo is just like any other teenage boy ever to walk the planet; he “falls in love” with the sight of a beautiful girl. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet scene five of act one written by William Shakespeare, Romeo says to himself at the sight of Juliet, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, …show more content…
Such naive little girls that have yet to see the dangers of the world; but little by little they begin to experience new things and realize life isn’t easy, and eventually they will come to realize that they can’t control everything, they will grow up. These young girls will face many obstacles that will make them want to give up; but hopefully they will make a better decisions than Juliet. On the ArtsEdge website about Romeo and Juliet, the author asks readers, “Have you or your friends ever: Faced obstacles or bad luck? Been trapped in a life that feels out of your control? Had to live by your parents’ rules—and disobeyed them? Experienced love at first sight?”(Ruben ArtsEdge Romeo and Juliet). The author has already had thoughts about how teenagers in this century are like reborn Romeo and Juliets. The author of ArtsEdge also says, “If so, then, though separated by four centuries, you’ve encountered some of the same challenges as Romeo and Juliet”.(Ruben ArtsEdge Romeo and Juliet). Little habits that we might have thought would go away after some time, are still going on now and they will continue to happen for years to