The story of Romeo and Juliet can be considered the most known tragic love stories known to humanity. Not only do the two protagonists commit suicide, the causes of why the whole story leading up to their deaths is disputed from around the globe. My opinion is that the ages of the characters, particularly Romeo caused this immense tragedy. His age caused him to develop many flaws, his idea of love, his imaturaty, and his impulsivenes.
Romeo's idea of love was way too dramatic. From the first time we meet Romeo, the reader can sense he has to be deeply involved with some kind of love, heartbreak or true love. In scene one we see Romeo depressed because a girl he loved was not into him. He mopped around for days on end, being the dramatic teenager …show more content…
Romeo's relationship with love was in such a way that it wasn't fully mature and ready for a long life of love, it was still budding and needing time to grow and understand the actual meaning of love. Romeo thought that he was ready to love and marry, but he was most definitely not, he was blinded by his pure immaturity to make such decisions. “From love’s weak childish bow, she lives uncharmed.” (1.1.205) Romeo even says himself that Rosaline, the one who he was first so in love with couldn’t affected by weak and childish love. One can use what he says to translate onto Romeo, that his love was weak and childish. We can look at so many studies and find that children's brains do not gain the ability to make good choices until they are adults. Romeo was not yet at the age in which he could make rational decisions to …show more content…
As stated above, I hypothesized that Juliet and Romeo’s relationship was what could be considered a rebound. Romeo was still getting over rejection from Rosiline when he saw a beautiful girl, Juliet. Immediatly he wanted to meet her and marry her, yet he magically got over ‘the most beautiful girl ever that makes me think of her when I look at other girls’ in less than a second. If she was the most beautiful girl in the world and he was so deeply in love with her, wouldn’t he feel guilty about seeing another girl in such a way? Or at least not even be looking at Juliet for a while and talking to her. Along with that idea, the fact that he didn’t even sit down to think before proposing to Juliet shows he wasn’t ready to marry at all. One usually thinks before proposing, “do I want to spend the rest of my life with this person?”. If yes, they propose, otherwise they
Romeo's idea of love was way too dramatic. From the first time we meet Romeo, the reader can sense he has to be deeply involved with some kind of love, heartbreak or true love. In scene one we see Romeo depressed because a girl he loved was not into him. He mopped around for days on end, being the dramatic teenager …show more content…
Romeo's relationship with love was in such a way that it wasn't fully mature and ready for a long life of love, it was still budding and needing time to grow and understand the actual meaning of love. Romeo thought that he was ready to love and marry, but he was most definitely not, he was blinded by his pure immaturity to make such decisions. “From love’s weak childish bow, she lives uncharmed.” (1.1.205) Romeo even says himself that Rosaline, the one who he was first so in love with couldn’t affected by weak and childish love. One can use what he says to translate onto Romeo, that his love was weak and childish. We can look at so many studies and find that children's brains do not gain the ability to make good choices until they are adults. Romeo was not yet at the age in which he could make rational decisions to …show more content…
As stated above, I hypothesized that Juliet and Romeo’s relationship was what could be considered a rebound. Romeo was still getting over rejection from Rosiline when he saw a beautiful girl, Juliet. Immediatly he wanted to meet her and marry her, yet he magically got over ‘the most beautiful girl ever that makes me think of her when I look at other girls’ in less than a second. If she was the most beautiful girl in the world and he was so deeply in love with her, wouldn’t he feel guilty about seeing another girl in such a way? Or at least not even be looking at Juliet for a while and talking to her. Along with that idea, the fact that he didn’t even sit down to think before proposing to Juliet shows he wasn’t ready to marry at all. One usually thinks before proposing, “do I want to spend the rest of my life with this person?”. If yes, they propose, otherwise they