Amongst all the violence present in Romeo and Juliet a young lady, Juliet Capulet, and gentlemen, Romeo Montague, manage to form a love which is unbreakable. Seemingly perfect, the two are part of rivalry families which keep them separated. Risking their lives to see each other, secretly getting married and almost being caught all come to an end when the two tragically kill themself. Constantly throughout the play violence and hatred are in the air. Due to this, Romeo and Juliet is not appropriate for a ninth grade audience on the basis of the amount of violence in its content.
The key aspect discussed in the play is how neither Romeo nor Juliet want to be alive if the other is dead. This encourages suicide as a solution to problems which is …show more content…
After Juliet tells her father she doesn’t want to marry Paris, he replies by saying, “Hang thee, young baggage!Disobedient wretch! I tell thee what-get thee to church on Thursday or never after look at me”(3.5.165-167). The lines exemplify the threatening actions which Capulet, Juliet’s father, show towards Juliet. The words which are said to Juliet by her father are not appropriate. In the same sense the words which Capulet says are due to Juliet’s lack of wanting to marry Paris. Both forcing his daughter to marry someone and threatening Juliet that she will be kicked out are both abusive actions toward her. When Capulet says this, in the room at the time are both the Nurse and Lady Capulet. Having people while this occurs, makes it inappropriate for ninth graders since it encourages to be a bystander. This is also shown when Mercutio comes up to the Nurse and sexually harasses her. He starts to sing a song to her and says, “An old hare hoar, And an old hare hoar, is a very good meat in Lent”(2.4.123-125). Mercutio directly calls the Nurse a whore which repeatedly happens throughout the scene. In effect, this results in verbal abuse towards the Nurse. This contributes to the idea that both the physical and verbal abuse which occurs in the play is inappropriate for a ninth grade
The key aspect discussed in the play is how neither Romeo nor Juliet want to be alive if the other is dead. This encourages suicide as a solution to problems which is …show more content…
After Juliet tells her father she doesn’t want to marry Paris, he replies by saying, “Hang thee, young baggage!Disobedient wretch! I tell thee what-get thee to church on Thursday or never after look at me”(3.5.165-167). The lines exemplify the threatening actions which Capulet, Juliet’s father, show towards Juliet. The words which are said to Juliet by her father are not appropriate. In the same sense the words which Capulet says are due to Juliet’s lack of wanting to marry Paris. Both forcing his daughter to marry someone and threatening Juliet that she will be kicked out are both abusive actions toward her. When Capulet says this, in the room at the time are both the Nurse and Lady Capulet. Having people while this occurs, makes it inappropriate for ninth graders since it encourages to be a bystander. This is also shown when Mercutio comes up to the Nurse and sexually harasses her. He starts to sing a song to her and says, “An old hare hoar, And an old hare hoar, is a very good meat in Lent”(2.4.123-125). Mercutio directly calls the Nurse a whore which repeatedly happens throughout the scene. In effect, this results in verbal abuse towards the Nurse. This contributes to the idea that both the physical and verbal abuse which occurs in the play is inappropriate for a ninth grade