Romeo And Juliet Decisions

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In the film Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli, we see the rash decisions made by young teens who fell in love. From the film, it shows how Romeo, a young teen apart of the Montague family, falls in love with his “star-crossed-lover” Juliet, an even younger teen apart of the Capulet family. They meet at a party/dance which they fell in love at. That same night, Romeo goes to Juliet’s home where he pledges to marry her. If Romeo OR Juliet were say 20 years older… would they have been so rash about getting married? Romeo's decision on marrying Juliet had little-to-no thought put into it. Romeo and Juliet met less than 24-hours before this and they barely talked, half the time they were just kissing! As stated in “Beautiful Brains” we all like new things, but we never value them more highly than we do during adolescence. And this statement is absolutely true. If Romeo and Juliet were 10 years older (mid twenties) I highly doubt they would have made the decision to marry each other so quickly. As a teen myself I know i’m …show more content…

Are these kids just being stupid? That’s the conventional explanation: They're not thinking, or by the work-in-progress model, their puny developing brains fail them (“Beautiful Brains”). What was just stated is more evidence to the quick choices made by adolescent teens. Near the end of the film Juliet pretends to kill herself so she can escape to be with Romeo because it was the “only” way. She didn't think twice about faking her death, she was being rash and took the first choice/option. But what later happens is Romeo finds out and sees that she is dead (not knowing she faked it). So Romeo decides to drink poison to kill himself to be with her in the afterlife. Then what happens right after is Juliet wakes up to see Romeo dead. This then leads to her really killing herself. This proves my point about teens being rash and taking the immediate

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