Romeo and Juliet fell in love in their teens and look where they ended up. Thankfully, in the real world, teen marriage does not have a tragic ending like William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” However it could still end with severe consequences. In the same way as Romeo and Juliet, teens are more likely to rush into things without thinking them through. then later they realize they do not want to be in the relationship anymore until it is too late. They also find out it is not easy to get a divorce. This happened to a friend of mine a few years ago. He decided to marry a girl the day she turned eighteen. She was soon bored with her relationship with him and became fickle with her adult responsibilities. Within six months of marriage, she …show more content…
People are concerned with couples not able to finish their education. Many girls who married are more likely to drop out of school because they are pursuing a life at home and taking care of children. This is what causes teens who marrty to be in poverty because one or both of the spouses have dropped out of school. with a lack of education teens are unable to find a better job, which can lead to poverty and unable to support their family (Dahl). Some teens have a hard time handling money because they never had any bills to pay before moving out of the house. They may become overwhelmed with everything that they have to keep track of such as rent, utilities, gas, insurance, loans, food, clothing, furnishings; this is just a few thing that teens have to look forward to when moving out on their own. Also another issue is whether teens are able to fully take care of their children to be better educated because it is hard to raise a kid if you are a kid yourself. In addition to marriage, teens do not realize how much that is needed to be changed other than their last name. After people are married there is a lot that has to be updated. This is true especially for women such as driver’s license, social security card, address, medical records, vehicle registration, school, job, bank accounts, bills loans, taxes, and that is just scraping the surface (Name Change
The teen years is an emotional time for teenagers. One of the many responsibilities as one grows is for a teen and parent to understand one another. Relationships are hard for many teens, but being in a relationship is even harder when their parents do not support them. In the play , Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows what could possibly happen if parents do not accept the relationships of their children.
Back in their day it was more common to marry young but it does not make it right. They got married without other people knowing, including the important people like their parents. They faced consequences because they thought they were in love when truly they only had feelings for each other. Romeo and juliet were young and impatient. In modern life normally people wait for love until they are older. It gives them a chance to experience new things and learn life lessons without love affecting their decisions. In modern life people think about the consequences like broken hearts or decisions affecting their future because of one person. People in modern life are smarter and more patient when it comes to love.
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The Different Attitudes to Love and Marriage Presented in Romeo and Juliet In “Romeo and Juliet”, the characters of Juliet, the Nurse and the Capulets have different attitudes to love and marriage. The relationship between the characters reflects their attitudes for marriage. The Capulet’s have a distant relationship with their daughter Juliet, as was common in Shakespearean times. Juliet is much closer to the Nurse who knew her from birth and she is Juliet’s
Teens may seem to make the most stupid, irrational, and rash decisions they possibly could for the seemingly relatively easy lives they live, but being an adolescent isn’t easy. The teen characters from Romeo and Juliet all make some pretty stupid decisions, but they are, in fact, teenagers; their brains are not actually yet fully developed. They don’t have the same capacity to make decisions with the distant future in mind as those of us who do have more developed brains. Therefor, they shouldn’t be held to the same standards as adults, as their brains are just more likely to lean towards risk taking and impulsive behavior - it isn’t their fault. Though adults can help guide adolescents through decisions, teens need to be able to try things and learn by themselves. The adults in this tragedy definitely were not a good example of how to take care of teens, and probably are at fault for the terrible decisions many of the teen characters made, just as much so as the teens themselves.
In Romeo and Juliet, the two marriages between paris and Juliet and Romeo and Paris is an example of teen marriage. My child is yet a stranger in the world. She hath not seen the change of fourteen years. Let two more summers wither in their pride. Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride. This quote from Capulet suggest that Juliet is only fourteen and her parents do not want Juliet to be rushed into a relationship that she doesn’t want to be in. Books or movie may over emphasize teen marriage but not only does it happen in the fantasy world but also in real life. 70 million women 20-24 around the world had been married before the age of 18. there are currently 365,527,925 girls in the world and according to the stat up there 5% of women will get married before the age of 18. Marriage should be between two people that show strong emotions and trust between each other according to multiple sources. Not only do young people not know what their getting into it also shows their too young to make decisions by them
“Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude” – Louis Aragon. Shakespeare presents a variety of feelings in Romeo and Juliet to appearance, emotions and relationships shared through Romeo and other characters. Romeo and Juliet depict a romantic relationship between “a pair of star-cross’d lovers” (prologue). Romeo also is committed to Mercutio with the familial love overriding the friendship bond. Unrequited love is seen through Romeo expressing his emotions on the unavailable relationship of himself and Rosaline.
Just as the Friar says in the beginning of the Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet, “Wisely and slowly, they stumble that run fast.” (II.iii.94). this was a sign of foreshadowing for for the death of the lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Even though fate was a factor that had contributed to a tragic end, there was also personal choice involved, and ultimately, the story may have had a different ending if it weren’t for the flaws of the lovers and their inability to have a grip on reality in dire circumstances. Over the course of the play, the lovers from the conflicting households have not matured and remain rather static in development. Furthermore, in this tragedy, the only son of the montages remains rather childlike, Juliet still seems immature and their relationship over all seems more like a play act on lover rather then something mature and sustainable. Overall, from start to finish, Romeo and Juliet were living in the moment, being absurd and silly rather then focusing on the future and trying to work problems out effectively.
Shakespeare has been know for many plays but one of his famous one is “Romeo and Juliet” Which has two teens from rivalling families who fell in love with each other but through misunderstandings and not well thought out plans by their mentors led to both Romeo and Juliet’s death by suicide. There were many ways that these “Star-crossed lovers” could avoided their fate with more thought out ideas and bring more people into their plans but untimely they died from plans from their mentors. What is the Relationship between Romeo and Juliet parents? Well Romeo’s relationship with his parents is they care for him very deeply. His mother was very relieved when he was not at the quarreled in the market. “O, where is Romeo?/Saw him today?/Right glad
To many teens, suicide may be the idea of escaping from their reality. They gain this overwhelming sense that if they are dead, everything will be better. But will it really? Teenage suicide has become more and more of an increasing contention in recent times. Even more so since the times of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has the suicide epidemic evolved. What started as a every so often thing you would see on the news has turned into something you hear about more often than you should. Suicide has become a common way of escape and dealing with problems for teenagers, along with many other groups of people. As for in Romeo and Juliet, this is exactly what happens. Romeo and Juliet both use suicide as their way of coping and escaping from what
Anna Freud, the founder of child psychoanalysis, once said, “It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost” (“Anna Freud”). In this case, the children, Romeo and Juliet, get lost and confused, leading to their ultimate deaths. While they cannot live without each other, they also cannot live with each other either, since they end up dying together from all the conflicts piling on top on each other. Since Romeo and Juliet do not really have any parental influence in their lives, they do not know how resolve their conflict of star-crossed love. Due to miscommunication, conflicting viewpoints between parents and adolescents, and a lack of involvement in their children’s lives, Shakespeare shows through Romeo and Juliet that adults are ineffective in saving their children’s lives.
People marry the wrong people for the wrong reasons. Of course, they seem to be the right people and the right reasons at the time the decision is made, but the trouble really begins here. For example, many couples are too young when they marry. They meet in high school or college, "fall in love," which is really just lust, and know that they have found the person they are going to marry. Further, many young girls think that they are ready to marry, but many times they simply want to get out of their parents' house. The situation may involve abuse in some form or another, or the girl simply may not be getting along with her folks and sees marriage as a way out. She believes that if she can just make a home of her own everything will be fine. She looks on the young man as her salvation, and he begins to see himself in that role. In addition, she may also be pregnant. This situation always makes things worse for the young couple. The coming baby takes many choices away from the pair and adds many responsibilities that they are just not prepared to take on. There are financial...
It is not a new thought that today’s young Americans are facing issues, problems and difficult decisions that past generations never had to question. In a world of technology, media, and a rough economy, many young adults in America are influenced by a tidal wave of opinions and life choices without much relevant advice from older generations. The Generation Y, or Millennial, group are coming of age in a confusing and mixed-message society. One of these messages that bombard young Americans is the choice of premarital cohabitation. Premarital cohabitation, or living together without being married (Jose, O’Leary & Moyer, 2010), has increased significantly in the past couple of decades and is now a “natural” life choice before taking the plunge into marriage. Kennedy and Bumpass (2008) state that, “The increase in cohabitation is well documented,such that nearly two thirds of newlyweds have cohabited prior to their first marriage”(as cited in Harvey, 2011, p. 10), this is a striking contrast compared with statistics of our grandparents, or even parents, generations. It is such an increasing social behavior that people in society consider cohabitation “necessary” before entering into marriage. Even more, young Americans who choose not to cohabitate, for many different reasons, are looked upon as being “old-fashioned”, “naive”, or “unintelligent”. This pressure for young people to cohabitate before marriage is a serious “modern-day” challenge; especially when given research that states, “... most empirical studies find that couples who cohabited prior to marriage experience significantly higher odds of marital dissolution than their counterparts who did not cohabit before marriage”, stated by Jose (2010) and colleagues (as c...
In William Shakespeare’s tragic play Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers from opposing households make impetuous decisions which ultimately lead to the suicide of both lovers (Romeo and Juliet). Juliet, one lover, has mentors that fail her in the play because of their ignorance of her emotional needs and growing independence as a teenager. These mentors are Juliet’s former wet nurse and guardian, the Nurse, Juliet’s mother, Lady Capulet, and Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet.
...ociety; we do not need teens, which are not ready for marriage, to be married. Marriage is all about compromise, understanding, and give and take. Teens have not fully grasped that concept yet. They need to experience more in life before becoming married. They are missing out on so much; it is truly not worth it to rush into marriage.