Romeo And Juliet Flaws

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Teens go through different situations involving “love” all the time. People now don’t realize what “love” was like back in the Shakespeare days.Romeo and Juliet is a great example of teen love but it's not love, it's manic, dramatic, fake, and I’d even go as far as to say that it is pressured. Most people blame all the circumstances in the play/movie and the side characters, but it all comes down to human faults, but more specifically, the human faults of Romeo and Juliet's parents. Their actions and decisions to neglect Romeo and Juliet throughout their teen life and even from birth would be hard for anyone to come back from. It’s the attachment and abandonment issues that Romeo acquires from his parents and Juliet's desperation and clouded …show more content…

You could say it's just the situation she was put in, and while it is, her parents put her there. “Capulet.Wednesday is too soon./A Thursday let it be–a Thursday, tell her,/ She shall be married to this noble earl. (Act lll, Scene 4) Her parents forced her to be married, against her will, and to a person she doesn’t even know. If on different terms, they might have fallen for each other and ended up together, but not in this story. Just like how Romeo was never her true love, he was never who she wanted to marry, but in this story or life and compared to Paris. He looked like heaven, or a way out at least. Her parents controlling personalities are what put her in a situation. No one is made to be put in those types of moments, and it made her desperate. It would make anyone feel that way, but while most people would separate themselves from it and solve their problems, she just reacted. The desperation caused by her parents clouded her thinking and forced her to act, forcing her to fall in love with the first guy she locked eyes with. That's the role she played in the Tragedy that is Romeo and Juliet, but like Romeo, the problem wasn’t with her, it was with her

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