Benedict Carey Watching New Love Sears The Brain Analysis

What is new love?: An approach on if new love makes one act “out of term”

Did Romeo really love Juliet? Or was their “love” just exhilarated and inexperienced and new love? In the article “Watching New Love as it Sears the Brain” by Benedict Carey, he expresses his thoughts on new and sudden love. Carey is a science reporter for the New York Times who focuses on brain and behavior topics. Carey has written for many of the top newspaper publishers across the nation. In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare is proving love can make a person wild, so wild people go to the point of suicide, which supports Carey’s Article. Shakespeare, was a man that resided during the Elizabethton era in Europe. He is known for his plays, and how they were at first

Carey uses a line in his article that says,”researchers in New York and New Jersey argue that romantic love is a biological urge distinct from sexual arousal” ( Carey 1) Carey also goes on to support this claim by stating “It is closer in its neural profile to drives like hunger, thirst, or drug craving, the researchers assert, than to emotional states like excitement of affection. As a relationship deepens,the brain scans suggest, the neural activity associated with romantic love alters slightly, and in some cases primes areas deep in the primitive brain that are involved in long-term attachment” (Carey 1) Carey may not know but he is making Shakespeare’s work look like he wrote about a man and woman crazy in love, literally “crazy”. The way Romeo and Juliet would do crazy things for eachother such as killing themselves and secretly getting married, however they knew it was a disaster waiting to happen if their families found out. Romeo can be seen trying to move on too quickly for maybe sexual arousal or maybe just because the heartbroken, testosterone driven boy thinks Juliet is how people say now “fine” or “hot”. The friar suspects something is not right ,while Romeo asked to him to marry him and his new woman after just a few hours of acknowledgment of his soon to be counterpart. Friar knows this is not normal activity (side effects of psychosis) he ask Romeo if this love is real and not just because Juliet is pretty and Romeo is enchanted by her, by saying, “ Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!/ Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,/ So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies/ not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”