Why does the theme teenage rebellion seem to appear so much in movies, literature, and music? One may see this theme appear in William Shakespeare’s, “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” as well as in Something Rotten the musical and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. There are many reasons that this theme emerges in media substantially, such as to teach a moral lesson as well as it is a topic that any audience can relate to. When commenting on what one may learn from this theme, many stories of teenage rebellion teach different, yet important, morals that all focus around following the rules and the importance of family. These morals and reasons for being shown can be found in all three previously stated sources.
In “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, …show more content…
In Something Rotten the musical, the song “We See The Light”, starts to a female character named Portia who has fallen in love with Nigel, they aren’t allowed to be together but sneak out to see each other anyways. Portia states, “I'm tired of listening to the same sad story, how lovers fail because it's written in the stars. The feuding family plot is starting to bore me. I'm thinking we can show 'em that's not who we are.” (Wanye). Portia compares their relationship to that of Romeo and Juliet, already seeing how Romeo and Juliet’s rebellion plays out, one can infer this relationship is also teaching moral lesson of consequences, yet as well as that this rebellion also shows the impracticality of keeping lovers apart because of a family problem. This is shown in “View Theatre” when they state, “ Nigel and Portia’s secret relationship is somewhat modeled after the original young lovers (Romeo and Juliet), with Nick and the Puritans indicating the warring families of the Montagues and the Capulets,” this quote confirms suspicions of their relationship modeling Romeo and Juliet’s, so one knows that they will follow a similar rebellion pattern of Romeo and Juliet (Theatre). Lastly, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off shows the classic tale of rebelling from school work and is overall one of the most relatable stories for one’s inner child. Meredith Wish states Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is,
In “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, …show more content…
In Something Rotten the musical, the song “We See The Light”, starts to a female character named Portia who has fallen in love with Nigel, they aren’t allowed to be together but sneak out to see each other anyways. Portia states, “I'm tired of listening to the same sad story, how lovers fail because it's written in the stars. The feuding family plot is starting to bore me. I'm thinking we can show 'em that's not who we are.” (Wanye). Portia compares their relationship to that of Romeo and Juliet, already seeing how Romeo and Juliet’s rebellion plays out, one can infer this relationship is also teaching moral lesson of consequences, yet as well as that this rebellion also shows the impracticality of keeping lovers apart because of a family problem. This is shown in “View Theatre” when they state, “ Nigel and Portia’s secret relationship is somewhat modeled after the original young lovers (Romeo and Juliet), with Nick and the Puritans indicating the warring families of the Montagues and the Capulets,” this quote confirms suspicions of their relationship modeling Romeo and Juliet’s, so one knows that they will follow a similar rebellion pattern of Romeo and Juliet (Theatre). Lastly, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off shows the classic tale of rebelling from school work and is overall one of the most relatable stories for one’s inner child. Meredith Wish states Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is,