Have you ever noticed a change in your personality as a result of getting older? Coming of age is the journey that people go through to reach different stages of their lives. Throughout life, people change and learn things about themselves and their values. In Long Way Down and Romeo and Juliet, the characters go through a coming of age and change how they perceive their identity and love. In Long Way Down by Jayson Reynolds, Will finds his identity and learns that he might not be a killer. Next, in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Juliet experiences love with Romeo. First of all, in Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, Will finds his identity. At the beginning of the story, Will is naive and immature. When he loses his brother, he decides …show more content…
He eventually matures and learns that killing a person is very challenging. He learns that the rules are made up and that he might not be a killer. Will realizes that he is not a killer when Uncle Mark goes through the plan with him. Uncle Mark explained step by step what Will would have to do. However, when he gets to the part where Will kills Riggs, Will thinks, “Couldn’t say anything else. Couldn’t say it better. Hope Uncle Mark would say, cut. “(Reynolds 177) To elaborate, this is where Will learned that it would be extremely difficult to kill Riggs. At this point, he didn’t even know if he would do it. Therefore, he learned about his identity and found out that he might not be a killer. Additionally, Will learns about his identity when Shawn says, “You coming?” (Reynolds 306) To specify, when it was finally time for Will to kill someone, he learned that he didn't actually want to do it. As you can see, Will started to perceive himself as someone who was not a killer. So, he matured and learned about his identity. Secondly, in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Juliet experiences love with Romeo. In the story, Romeo and Juliet fall in love very
Psychology Today declares “...Females generally mature faster in certain cognitive and emotional areas than males during childhood and adolescence.” In Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, it becomes clear that Juliet appears more mature than Romeo. Shakespeare proves that Juliet demonstrates a heightened level of maturity by capturing her reactions to outlandish events, displaying her awareness of sexual realities, and exhibiting her ability to tackle tragic news.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare explores the lives of ‘a pair of star crossed lovers’ from feuding families in the city of Verona. Their love and passion for one another is so great, that even an act of revenge doesn’t prevent them from being with each other. Act 3 Scene 2 is set in Capulets house and entails a conversation between Juliet and her Nurse regarding her cousin, Tybalt’s death and her lover, Romeo’s banishment. Juliet expresses her grief for Tybalt’s death and her abhorrence at Romeo’s deed. Although the Nurse blames Romeo for the death of Tybalt, Juliet’s loyalty and love towards her husband, enables her to overcome the shock.
Reading Shakespeare is a piece of cake, but interpreting Shakespeare is like making that piece of cake homemade for the first time. With each new ingredient comes a new instruction. When baking this cake we must always remember to never give and to follow instructions. This is because losing hope can cause wasted time. In the play "Romeo and Juliet", we see a pair of star-crossed lovers on a quest to be with one another. Yet these lovers give up very quickly causing their cake to never bake fully.
“Wilt thou provoke me? Then, have at thee boy!” says Romeo, the murderer of Paris. In the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, a young man named Romeo falls in love with Juliet, a maiden from the opposing family. Romeo latches on to the thought of being with Juliet, and crosses great boundaries. Romeo’s gestures can be interpreted as romantic, loyal, and passionate. However, I believe he is mentally unstable and extreme in his decisions. Romeo does not consider the future of others, as well as himself.
Haste In Romeo and Juliet, a father and son argue over the way they treat each other. Then, in the son’s haste and hot-headed temper, he decides to live with his mother. Eventually, he realizes that this decision is wrong, which causes him to go back to his father to patch things up. But in his father’s haste and hot-headed temper, he yelled at his son over the way that he was being treated. This cycle happened two more times before the tragic final outcome.
When analyzing Romeo and Juliet it is clear that Benvolio is the best character to represent the difference between what is right and what is wrong. He is expressed through his actions,to keep the Montague and Capulet men at peace,while fighting.Especially,towards the end where the Capulets and Montagues were at a high stand point of disagreement with their kids being “star crossed lovers”(prologue.6) Even though,Shakespeare introduces and builds different characters to be like Benvolio,the choices and decisions Benvolio develops as a trustworthy and advice giving character. Therefore,Benvolio is the best character to express the difference between right and wrong.
A tragedy is : a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically involving a great person destined to experience downfall or utter destruction, as through a character flaw or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or an unyielding society. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy in which the great person or character caught up in downfall and utter destruction is Romeo. Romeo’s utter destruction as a tragic figure is the suffering around him. All of this suffering and tragedy in Romeo and Juliet can be traced back to Romeo or the grudge between the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo is the most tragic figure in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, so he is the leading cause to all suffering to other characters.
Have you ever noticed how people change after they fall in love? In the story Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Juliet is proven to be a dynamic character because of how she changes throughout the story and why. In the story, Juliet changes from understanding and reasonable to disobedient and unreasonable because she is in love.
Do you know someone who has acted without thinking? In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Juliet is one of the main characters who falls in love and ends in a tragic death. Juliet is a tragic hero and her death could have been avoided if she wasn’t so impetuous.
Romeo and Juliet is set in an Italian city named Verona. Romeo is the son of of Montague, a powerful family patriarch, and Juliet is the daughter of Capulet, another powerful patriarch. There’s one problem with this. Capulet and Montague hate each other. There’s another problem. The story was set in a time where men were thought of as superior to women. It was not unusual for a father to marry his daughter to another man just for the political status. This makes it impossible for Romeo to marry Juliet peacefully. In today’s world, Capulet’s actions would not be regarded as good parenting, so that is why, in our eyes, Capulet seems like a bad father, but there is more to his bad side. He tried to marry Juliet off to a kinsman of the prince just for the political status, but his bad parenting also harmed Juliet in another way. He let his anger get the best of him in most cases, and by doing this, it made Juliet keep secret from him. So, by being stubborn, self-absorbed, and hot-tempered, he influenced Romeo and Juliet to kill themselves.
Romeo- Love causes Romeo to act impulsively and put himself in dangerous situations. For example, in act two scene two, Romeo sneaks into the Capulet grounds due to his love for Juliet. He loves her so much that he was willing to risk being caught by Juliet’s kinsman. If he was caught, a fight could have broken out, which would put Romeo’s life in danger. Also, he would lose his life due to the prince’s penalty. However, due to his intrusion of the Capulet party in act one scene five, it is Tybalt’s rage that jeopardizes Romeo’s well-being. This shows the intensity of Romeo’s love for Juliet, and how he cares more about seeing her than his own safety. For example, in act five scene three, Romeo kills himself because he believes that Juliet
and reckless in love and relationships. In this case, Romeo and Juliet do not fall under the odd. Shakespeare tells the great love story of the two young star-crossed lovers - Romeo and Juliet, ending with the tragic deaths of six people including the suicide of the two lovers. The decisions and actions that Romeo and Juliet have made reveals the overall theme Shakespeare was expressing - Young love is often more reckless and impulsive due to young people's rash decision making and the high level of zeal that they possess.
A friar of wisdom and great power is an abuser of the power he holds; a friar the citizenry turn to thinking he is there to be welcoming, but he is vain. Friar Lawrence has good intentions to help others yet his actions show that he is truly impulsive and naive. The Friar shows his, “lies, schemes, misleads, falsely sanctions, and performs funeral obsequies for a being he knows is not permanently dead--and, as we can tell, he has no the slightest twinge of conscience about all of this” (Mackenzie 1). He is also blamed for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. He manipulates the characters to believe his actions are to help the star-crossed lovers be happy, however he has ulterior motives and uses his powers against the lovers. In William Shakespeare’s
In William Shakespeare's “Romeo And Juliet” Romeo is the main character. He is Montague's son. Which means he is the son of his loves enemy, the Capulets. Romeo is very depressed, he is very negative, impulsive, anxious, emotional, and he is a rebel. Romeo is stupid if he would have taken it slow and not rushed things with Juliet they might still be alive. Due to Romeo and Juliet's mad love for eachother, and their families hatred towards each other they died.
Final Essay “I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity”.-Retired American musician Tom Lehrer. Adolescents often show lack of maturity. Romeo and Juliet is a story about two kids who meet and fall in love on the same day, only to get married a few days later. Then Juliet is supposed to marry another person named Paris after a day of being married to Romeo which then leads to all three of them being dead. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses figurative language to display that adolescents can make decisions that are not thought through.