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BLOG ASSIGNMENT: Is Romeo & Juliet about the irrationality of teenagers or the foolishness of adults? Explain your ideas with specific examples from both the teenagers actions and/or adults actions. (quotes; specific examples)
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Romeo and Juliet I believe was about the irrationality of teenagers as they fell in love foolishly so quickly. With Romeo making a speech to himself, it shows the audience the depth of Romeo's feelings for his new-found love. Juliet's first words show the love she feels as states "Ah me". As Juliet is above on her balcony, she calls out, "O Romeo Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo"? And he listens below as Romeo stays hidden to hear her profess her love to him. He is enjoying the passion she feels for him. At this moment, Romeo steps forward and states his love for Juliet. They foolishly stay together despite their families feud. They don't care about others, but only themselves. They are like teenagers, doing what they want to do, and don't care about what others think. Romeo states to Juliet that he found her "by love" in the garden, meaning that their love was so strong that the force pulled them together. That it was meant to be! True lovers cannot part they believed. In conclusion, Romeo and Juliet were irrational in their love to one another as they were foolishly acting like typical teenagers do!
ReplyDeleteThe play Romeo and Juliet is about the foolishness of adults. It is about the foolishness because through out the entire play Shakespeare refers to the everlasting grudge on the two families. Because of the foolishness of the adults in the play there is this everlasting grudge. So if it were not for the foolishness of the adults and there incapability to make up there would be no play or grudge. “Two households, both alike in dignity,
ReplyDeleteIn fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny”. This quote shows that there has been this ancient grudge not because of the irrationality of the teenagers in the play but because of the foolishness of the adults. “O brother Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more can I demand”. “But I can give thee more, For I will raise her statue in pure gold, That whiles Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of true and faithful Juliet.” These quotes show that it is not until the death of their children do they realize that this grudge is silly. The play is about the foolishness of the adults.
The play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare is a romantic tragedy between star crossed lovers that was never meant to be. Romeo and Juliet met each other at a party and without even talking that much kiss due to their impulsivity. They also in the span of a few days marry and kill each other because they were just never meant to be. The only people that knew about this marriage besides Romeo and Juliet were Friar Laurence and Nurse. I agree with the statement that the adults were foolish because Friar married them and Nurse helped over it up. It was the adults fault because they are wiser and should know better than just two kids that are convinced they are in love even though they aren’t. They are just in love with their looks. Another foolish move made by adults is the parents of both kids. Romeo’s parents in the beginning asked Benvolio to talk to Romeo about his problems instead of doing it themselves. Also if Juliet’s mother was closer with her daughter she would have understood better and maybe she wouldn’t have taken her life. Also Friar shouldn’t have given Juliet the potion and resolved the issue in a different manor.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the play involves foolishness of adults but none of the adults that were foolish were foolish because of the irrationality of Romeo and Juliet. The Friar for example wouldn’t have been put in his position Romeo and Juliet weren’t so impulsive and irrational. They both knew that their marriage would create more of conflict if someone found out so they had to confide in Friar. No other person would have wed them because Romeo and Juliet both knew that there wedding shouldn’t have happened. But as young teenagers Romeo and Juliet thought nothing could get in the way of their love which they were both mistaken about. Because they both are so in love with each other, they have no concerns or cares about what is going on around them. Their love was destined to end the way it did and they may not have wanted to believe it but it still was the truth. They may have been in love but it was not meant to be, their families hated each other, had hardly known each other for more than a week and they were still just teenagers. Their irrationality and impulsivity led to both of their fates.
ReplyDeleteThe tale of Romeo and Juliet is one of great sorrow and more over one of great tragedy; it begins with the love of two “star crossed lovers” meaning that their love can never truly be. The reason why this is true is probably even more tragic, Romeo and Juliet are on opposite sides of a feud that has lasted so long the reasons that in began have been forgotten by both sides. If one takes a long hard look at Romeo and Juliet it is revealed that almost every problem that Romeo and Julie have to put up with is caused by the foolishness of adults. The moment that Romeo and Julie see one another they fall in love and in the course of the play in an amount of time that nears spontaneous combustion they marry one another; in any other setting this is where the story would end. However in this setting they are forced away form one another by there parents who continually fight one another for reasons they can't remember. For instance when Romeo kills Tybalt in a duel it causes incredible problems for Romeo. But Tybalt would not have threatened to kill Romeo if it were not for the fact that he had been taught by his parents to hate all Montagues, like Romeo. Another time where the foolishness of adults had bad affect is where they, with the pretexts that it will make her happy again, Juliet into a marriage with Paris (which is strange considering that it's for her benefit). This directly leads the the plan that Friar Lawrence comes up with that leads to Romeo and Juliet killing one another the untimely tragedy. The foolish decisions of the adults around Romeo and Juliet, to pursue a meaningless feud and to force her into a loveless marriage, led to their tragedy.
ReplyDeleteThe play of Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy about the irrationality of teenagers. The actions they took weren’t well thought out, even their suicide was on impulse. Juliet’s statement that their love was "too like the lightening" was wise, until she proposes to Romeo a few minutes later. She proposed on her impulsivity, not on real love. Juliet turning down the marriage to Paris was on impulse as well. She never disliked him to begin with, but since she is Romeo's wife she sees him as a threat to their love, and hates him even though there isn't one bad bone in his body. Juliet putting herself to sleep was an absolute impulse. She had considered every possibility of what the potion could do to her and she still drank it because of her impulsiveness. Romeo and Juliet’s first kiss was too soon, they just met and they think they’ve fallen in love. While beauty is in the eye of the beholder, that’s the only part about each other that they love. Their beauty is what captivated each other. In hindsight, Juliet’s beauty is the only thing that Romeo drones on about in the balcony scene. Romeo’s impulsiveness to loving beautiful people is what got them into this mess in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI think that Romeo and Juliet is about the foolishness of adults because if they had just forgotten their feud they wouldn’t have had to sneak around, and they could’ve been honest with their parents. Also if Lord Capulet hadn’t tried to force Juliet to marry Paris then she wouldn’t have had to fake her death. “Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed. In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.” Although Romeo and Juliet are impulsive there were some events where they could’ve thought about what they were doing. For example, when they got married they did have some time when they could’ve thought about what they were doing (during when Romeo had left Juliet and when the nurse returned to give Juliet the news). I also think that it is more about the foolishness of adults because if the nurse had realized and thought about how much Juliet loved Romeo, she wouldn’t have told her to just marry Paris. By the nurse telling Juliet this then she only pushes Juliet to go to Friar Lawrence’s where she devises the plan to fake her death and leave. “O most wicked fiend! Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn, or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue, which she hath praised him with above compare, so many thousand times? Go, counselor. Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. I’ll to the friar to know his remedy.”
ReplyDeleteThe play Romeo and Juliet is about the foolishness of adults. If Romeo and Juliet's parents weren't fighting, the rest of the play would be different. Romeo and Juliet met at the party, and they fell in love, but once they found out who eachother really were, they knew that their fate would be doomed. The fighting going on between the Capulets and Montagues, caused many problems, which lead to many deaths. Tybalt and Mercutio got into a fight on the street because they hated eachother, and this lead to Romeo getting upset with Tybalt and killing him. Romeo got banished from Verona, and Juliet had to fake her death to escape marriage with Paris. Romeo hears that Juliet killed herself, so he decides to kill himself too, but Juliet woke up when he died. Juliet then stabs herself, and dies. If the adults were not fighting and being foolish about everything, none of this would happen. "Two households, both alike in dignity,
ReplyDeleteIn fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny" This quotes shows that the Capulets and Montagues hold an ancient grudge which foreshadows the rest of the play. Even though Romeo and Juliet were very impulsive and irrational about their relationship, the main point of this play was the foolishness of adults.
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ReplyDeleteThe tragedy Romeo and juliet is a play written by Willium Shakespeare, about both the foolishness of adults and the irrationallity of teenagers. My choice is that he aims more for the irrationality of teenagers, because they end of killing themselfs over eachother, when once you think about it, they have only knew for a little less than a week. In that time they got secretly married, romeo ends up killing his new cusin, getting banished, then killing himself over a girl he had just met. while on the other hand juliet is no better, for she declines a promisising marriage, which then her father threatens to push her into the streets, after when she finds that romeo has taken his life over her fake death, she then kills herself. Thus overall proving my point because they were willing to risk it all including their lives for a person whom they had just met, then ultimatly going through with their instinct, not thinking it through and killing themselfs for eachother. the idea of "foolishness" of adults is out of the question, because the adults dont know the lives of the teenagers, if anything it should be the unawareness or ignorance of adults.
ReplyDeleteThe play Romeo and Juliet is about two lovers that are trying to be together but they can’t because their families hate each other. I think the play is about the foolishness of adults because all Romeo and Juliet wanted to do was be together. The only reason why Romeo and Juliet had to do everything so quickly is because they’re parents would never let them be together so they wanted to get married before Lord Capulet made Juliet marry Paris. They also wanted to get married quickly because Juliet is the daughter of Capulet and Romeo is the son of Lord Montague. So if they got married they thought that maybe the families would stop hating each other and end the fued. But since they had to do it behind they’re parents back complicatiions occurred and they ended up dieing. All because there parents hated each other and they where foolish Romeo and Juliet died. But after they died the fued ended and the families came back together. “Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage,.” This quote shows there parents hatred towards each other.
ReplyDeleteShakespeare's sonnet Romeo and Juliet was a play about the foolishness of adults. The Capulet's (Julie's family) and the Montague (Romeo's family) have had a problem in the family. This problem goes back so far that the parents don't even know what the it is. When they met a feud was still going on in the families. Romeo and Juliet loved each other and had to keep it a secret from their families as well as their marriage. This was part of the adults' foolishness because the Friar knew that if he married Romeo and Juliet it wouldn't solve the problem and it didn't. The Friar thought by marrying Romeo and Juliet that the families might start to get along. Since Lord Capulet didn't know that they were married he was going to make Juliet marry Paris (the county man). Lord Capulet is foolish when he thinks that Juliet is mourning over Tybalt. He arranges a marriage for Juliet without knowing that Juliet is already married. “Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon, O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her, She shall be married to this noble earl. Will you be ready? Do you like this haste? We'll keep no great ado,--a friend or two; For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late, It may be thought we held him carelessly, Being our kinsman, if we revel much: Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends, And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?” ( Act 3 scene 4) This quote shows that Capulet is excited that Juliet will get married and he doesn't even talk to Juliet about it. Also when Juliet says no, Lord Capulet says that he will basically disown her and let her live on the street. This is foolish because Juliet is his only child and that it was too soon for Juliet to even think about it. This is why the play is about the foolishness of adults
ReplyDeleteThe story of Romeo and Juliet has been known to be a tragic tale. The story had many causes to their tragic end from foolish the fight between the parents. But what had made the tragic end happen was the irrationality of the teenagers. It had started at the beginning of Romeo’s relationship with Juliet. They had been moving so fast, they had just met a few hours ago and they’ve already decided to get married without their parent’s permission. Juliet says” Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. If that thy bent of love be honorable. Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow, by one that I'll procure to come to thee. Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite; and all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay. And follow thee my lord throughout the world.” Having those there sworn enemies this marriage would never work especially without the consent of their parents. This impulsive is the start of what led to the tragic end of Romeo and Juliet. Another part where the teenagers show impulsiveness is when Romeo had just seen his best friend get killed and totally forgets about the fact that Tybalt is Juliet’s cousin and still goes after him and tells Tybalt that he must die. “Alive, in triumph! And Mercutio slain!Away to heaven, respective lenity, and fire-eyed fury be my conduct now! Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again, that late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.” These few parts in the tale were the teenagers show they are not think rationally had been a big part that led to end of Romeo and Juliet.
ReplyDeleteRomeo and Juliet is about the irrationality of teenagers. Romeo falls in love with Juliet the moment his eyes lay eye on her while he is crashing the Capulet’s party. “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.” When Juliet meets Romeo they talk and then kiss. When they find out who each other is they both realize that they shouldn’t love one another and even though he shouldn’t Romeo goes back to Juliet in the night to talk to her. When Romeo gets into the Capulet’s orchard he sees Juliet in the window. Romeo hides to hear her speak. “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.” At the end of there conversation before Romeo goes to leave Juliet tells him to go and make plains for their wedding that will be tomorrow. By telling Romeo to go plain their wedding in one night and part of the next day shows how impulsive they are. They rush into getting married and don’t even tell their parents they are doing it. After their wedding when Juliet goes home and is waiting for Romeo, Romeo kills Tybalt because Tybalt kills Mercutio when trying to kill Tybalt. “Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.” After Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished from Verona he realizes he should have stopped and thought about his wife, Juliet’s, feelings before killing Tybalt. “O, I am fortune's fool!” One last example of Romeo and Juliet being about irrationality of teenagers is when Romeo kills himself when he thinks Juliet is dead and the same with Juliet killing herself instead of going with Friar Laurence when she sees Romeo dead after he drank a poison. “O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” As seen in the play Romeo and Juliet is about the irrationality of teenagers and how they acted on impulses rather than thinking through everything clearly.
ReplyDeleteI think Romeo and Juliet is about the irrationality of teenagers. Teenagers sometimes don’t know how to express their emotions and the challenges or a relationship. What Romeo and Juliet do is as soon as they see each other they decide that they love each other. Both of them are only teenagers and they get married so early. Both Romeo and Juliet make very poor choices. When Juliet is forced to marry Paris she gets a potion that makes her look dead for 42 hours but she is really alive. Once Romeo sees her and thinks she’s dead he kills himself. A couple minutes after Romeo committed suicide Juliet sees him dead and she commits suicide. Both of them make dumb decisions, just because someone dies that you love does not mean your life needs to be over also. Romeo is irrational because he marries at a very young age to someone he just met and also kills himself because he thought Juliet was dead. Juliet is even more irrational because she is barely even a teenager and she gets married and also she takes a potion that could have killed her just so she did not have to marry Paris. Most teenagers would not go to that extent of killing themselves. If someone’s boyfriend or girlfriend broke up with them they might get very upset and do things they might not normally do but killing themselves would be the extreme.
ReplyDeleteThe play romeo and juliet is a play about the foolishness of adults. Romeo and Juliet's marriage would never be a problem if the two families got along. The long time conflict between the two families is the thought behind the entire plot, no conflict no play. romeo and juliet are irrational teenagers but only because they must sneak around the foolishness of there families." ...from ancient grudge break to new mutiny." When friar Lawrence marries romeo and juliet he is being foolish even though he thought me may bring peace to the situation he knew it would cause problems and that it did. To make it worse he gave Juliet the vial and did not make sure that romeo got the note he left it up to friar john for it to get there. the foolishness of the adults caused for four young teenagers to be killed: Romeo, Tybalt, Mercutio, and Juliet. If Lord Capulet did not force juliet into marrying paris there would be no reason for her to run to friar lawrence and for her to threaten to kill herself if he was not to give her anything to help her. Romeo and juliet is a play about the foolishness of adults ruining the future for 4 young soles.
ReplyDeleteThe play of Romeo and Juliet, I think, is based on the foolishness of adults. I think this because throughout the play, almost everything was based on the feud, that the parents refused to let go. Romeo and Juliet had to sneak around, hiding their love and marriage, because of this feud and actually caused their tragic flaw, impulsivity. If the adults accepted their love, Romeo and Juliet wouldn't have had to quickly get married. Also, in Act 3 Scene 5, Lord Capulet forces Juliet to marry Paris. If he listened to his daughter and didn't force her, or threaten her that he would kick her out, she wouldn't have had to go to the Friar, and get the poison. As much as it was the parents' fault, it was also Friar Lawrence's and Friar John's fault. When he devised the plan for Juliet to drink the poison, he had to send a letter to Romeo. When Friar John didn't get the letter to Romeo on time, Balthasar already told Romeo that Juliet was dead. And this caused the death of Romeo, because he didn't get the letter that told him that Juliet was actually alive. And once Romeo killed himself, Juliet took her own life as well. The foolishness of the adults in this play, led to the death of Romeo and Juliet.
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ReplyDeleteThe play Romeo and Juliet is about the foolishness f adults. This is because if it weren’t for the grudge of the Montague’s and the Capulet’s, then the rest of the family wouldn’t hate the other family. And although Romeo and Juliet didn’t know who each other were when they first met, Fria Lawrence could have stopped them. But Friar Lawrence was trying to do the right thing by trying to stop the feud between the two families. Because Romeo and Juliet were so in love there was no stopping them from pursuing what they wanted to do. (Get married) But the problem was that there families hated another...so they couldn’t. And by getting married they (Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence) hoped that it would stop the family feud. But as we all know, Romeo and Juliet’s impulsivity gets in the way and things went wrong. (This automatically leads to their doomed death.) In this case, it is the foolishness of adults because of the long held grudge.
ReplyDeleteI think Romeo and Juilet is about the irrationality of teenagers and the foolishness of adults because for the irrationality of teenagers they were not really in love, they just met like 5 days before. The first night they met they decided to get married the next day. Romeo first loved Rosoline then he loved Juliet as soon as he looked at her. They only knew each other for a short period of time and because Romeo died she didn't need to kill herself. For example, if someones girlfriend or boyfriend dies they don't kill themselves. Romeo and Juilet barley knew each other, they didn't know anything about each other and Romeo and Juliet is also about the foolishness of adults because if Romeo and Juliet really did love each other they killed themselves because of their parents feud.Their parents were not able to settle their diffrences until Romeo and Juliet were dead. The parents should of acted like adults and ended their diffrences because many people have suffered and died because of the fight between the Montagues and the Capulets. Their fight caused the deaths of Juliet and Romeo.
ReplyDeleteOne recurring theme in the story Romeo and Juliet is the irrationality of teenagers. This is one reoccurring theme because in the very beginning of the story Romeo is, or thinks he is in love with Rosaline and believes he will be nothing without her. However, as soon as Romeo see's Juliet at a party he says, "She teaches the torches to burn bright." He seems to have forgotten all about Rosaline.
ReplyDeleteJuliet is also acting irrationally because when she thinks she is by herself on the balcony, she talks about how much she loves Romeo after they just met and had only spoken for a little while during the party. Another irrational thing that was Juliet is requesting marriage after less than an hour of speaking.
“Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed.
If that thy bent of love be honorable,
Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow,
By one that I'll procure to come to thee,
Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite”
Lastly, it is irrational for Romeo & Juliet to kill themselves over someone that they barely knew. An adult would realize that not one person can make your entire life and there could be other people out there or other options than killing yourself, like running away to be together or getting over it with another relationship.
The play Romeo and Juliet is about the irrationality of teenagers because if teens did not do the stupid things that we do, there would not be such harsh consequences. It is about the irrationality of teenagers because Romeo and Juliet fell in love so fast that they did not even have time to find out anything about each other. An example from the play is when Romeo kills Tybalt because Tybalt killed Mercutio. It is because Romeo is so impulsive that the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet's death occurred. After Romeo kills Tybalt he says, "O, I am fortune's fool!", which means that his anger got the best of him. If Romeo was not so impulsive, he would not be banished and sent to Mantua. Then, if he did not kill Tybalt, Juliet would not want to take the counterfeit poison to make believe she is dead. Also, towards the end of the play, Romeo kills Paris who was supposed to marry Juliet because Romeo was banished from Verona. What I am trying to say is that if Romeo was not so impulsive, he and Juliet would most likely still be alive. So the play Romeo and Juliet is pretty much is about the irrationality of teenagers.
ReplyDeleteI think that Romeo and Juliet is about the foolishness of adults. If the Capulet’s and Montague’s weren’t still fighting about a problem their ancestors had there would be no reason for Romeo and Juliet to be sneaking around and going behind their parents backs. “Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet.” If it weren’t for the foolishness of adults neither Romeo nor Juliet would have to “deny thy father” or “refuse thy name” they would be able to be together. The whole play was about how Romeo and Juliet are desperate to be together but are never meant to be because of their parents and their disagreements. These two star crossed lovers have to sneak to get married then must come up with an unreal plan just to stay together. Juliet has to take a potion to make herself look dead which backfires when Romeo thinks she really is dead. If it had not been for the foolishness of adults this play would have been a little pointless because there would had been no sneaking around to do and Romeo and Juliet could be together.
ReplyDeleteIn the play Rome and Juliet, the foolishness of adults is proven true. The reason is because; the Capulet’s and Montague’s are enemies about an old family feud, which they don’t even know why. Basically the two families hate each other because of a fight that the families got in a very long time ago. But what winds up happening is a young girl Juliet and boy by the name of Rome wind up falling madly in love with each other, and were able to see past their parent’s foolishness, because they knew that they were arguing over something that was stupid. Obviously the parents were foolish because they unlike Romeo and Juliet just can’t seem to forgive and forget about a feud they don’t even know exact details about. “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen known and known too late!” this quote is basically saying that thought their families hate another but they are still in love with each other don’t care about their families hatred, because they are able to look past it and love one another.
ReplyDeleteRomeo & Juliet is about the irrationality of the foolish adults because the adults set examples for the kids and should show them how to behave. In Romeo and Juliet their parents have a feud between each other, which eventually leads to kids and workers too. The parents of both households should have realized that the way their kids are acting is because of them and they should have taken steps to stop their kids from acting in violence. This is shown when the Montague and Capulet’s meet in the street, the people on the street were mostly members of the households or servants. Now if the parents never had their feud there would not be any fighting because the only reason that the servants don’t like each other is because their lords don’t. This affects Romeo and Juliet because when Tybalt kills Mercutio Romeo can’t control his anger and goes and kill Tybalt. He gets banished. Now Romeo can’t see Juliet and this never should have happened if the parents had settled their differences for their kids. But instead they chose to let their kids fight and get killed. Although the kids should be smart enough to know there is know reason to fight but instead they are impulsive and don’t think about what will happen next. They don’t think of the whole picture but it is the parent’s job to help. Another thing that the parents are not thinking of or are unaware of what is best for there kids and what they want to do. When Juliet has to marry Parris but she dose not want to her father is making her because it would benefit him. He doesn’t think about what Juliet wants. When she tells him she doesn’t want to he gets real mad and tells her that she’s not his daughter anymore and he wont le her stay in this house. This is shown when he is angry and says…“How now, how now, chop-ogic! What is this? 'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;'And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you, Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds, But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next, To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church, Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!
ReplyDeleteYou tallow-face!” He is forcing her to marry but can see that she love some one else.
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ReplyDeleteThe story of Romeo & Juliet and there acts of love were probably be caused by the irrationality of teenagers because of how they are young and full of energy. They haven’t been in a relationship before and were excited to be in one. Romeo was in love before Juliet but Romeo’s love wouldn’t take him and made Romeo sad. Juliet on the other hand was already talking about marrying someone with her parents and her caretaker so when Juliet met Romeo; she fell in love and was excited to marry him and to grow up. Romeo was too quick with his actions and didn’t think about what he did. Because of that, he killed Tybalt without thinking about Juliet, the consequences and whether it was an accident or not. Juliet wanted to see Romeo after he was banished from the city. Right away she sought help from Friar Laurence. At the party in the beginning, after Romeo met Juliet, he right away ran away and went to see her. During Act II Scene II, Romeo asks himself, “Can I go forward when my heart is here?” In other words, Romeo is asking himself if he should leave to go home with his family or to go and meet Juliet and not thinking about the consequences on whether he would be caught.
ReplyDeleteThis is Chelsea. I think Romeo and Juliet is a play about the foolishness of the adults, because if the Capulets and Montagues did't hate each other, than romeo and Juliet wouldn't have to sneak around and hide their love from their families. Although Romeo and Juliet were acting irrational, their parents were acting more foolish, because they are suppose to be able to set an example for Romeo and juliet instead of fighting.
ReplyDeleteRomeo and Juliet is about the impulsivity of teenagers beacuse if Romeo and Juliet didnt rush into there relationship they wouldnt have had all the things happen to them. Also if Romeo thought about Tybalt instead of just attacking him he wouldnt have killed him and he wouldnt be banished. If Romeo waited a moment before attacking Paris he would have seen who he was and wouldnt have killed him either.
ReplyDeleteRomeo and Juliet is about the foolishness of the adults. The feud between the families is dumb because they aren’t even sure how it started but they still continue it. It is also dumb because they wouldn’t even let true love (which is supposed to conquer all) prevail. "I do bite3 my thum sir" is said by one of the servants that are affected by the feud even though they aren’t related and are just servant of the two houses. The story is not about the irrationality of the kids because without the adult’s foolishness every thing would have worked out. Constantly throughout the story there are fights, the fights are between the kids but without the foolishness of the adults and there hate for each other the kids would never fight and then every thing would work out between Romeo and Juliet (but then we wouldnt have a story). When Tybalt wants to kill Romeo at the party it is not because he holds a real personal grudge but because he is from the opposing family and because of that he has to hate him, because this is almost a tradition of the families to hate the other one.
ReplyDeleteThe Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is about the irrationality of teenagers, as well as the foolishness of adults, but I think that is more so about the foolishness of adults. There really isn’t any other way of putting how they are all to blame about all the conflicts in the story. They have a family on family grudge for something that can’t even be remembered, and it leads to Juliet and Romeo to not to even tell them about the marriage because they both know that the parents would not have allowed it. We know in Juliet’s family, that Juliet and her mother, Lady Capulet do not have a good mother daughter relationship. Maybe if they did, Juliet would know more about her mother and would have known if she could trust her mother not to be angry with falling in love with a chosen enemy. “This is the matter-Nurse, give leave awhile, we must talk in secret…nurse, come back again”. I think that their deaths were somewhat of a wake up call and they represent the conclusion of the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
ReplyDeleteThe tragedy of Romeo And Juliet is about the Irrationality of Teenagers. When Juliet and Romeo just meet in the play, they are both very eager to love each other and marry. They do this act they get married within the matter of two days. I think Romeo and Juliet did this too fast which makes them very immature. They did act like teenaf=gers very much geting into a lot of trouble and causing death to bothof them.
ReplyDeleteRomeo and Juliet is a love story about both the foolishness of adults and the irrationality of teenagers, but I feel it’s more so the foolishness of adults. From the beginning, the Capulet’s and Montague’s have been in a life long feud. This fight had been going on for so long; both families don’t even know why they still dislike each other. “Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life”. Many people in the town of Verona, feel this seems foolish. People are confused and just want them to stop causing more and more trouble in the streets. Also, Romeo and Juliet have considered them self’s as very mature adults that are truly in love. But we do know now that everyone makes mistakes. I feel if both families weren’t as foolish during the whole fight and just left their differences behind, none of these horrible deaths would have happened. In the end Lord and Lady Capulet and Montague both realized when their children were dead, that they shouldn’t have been so mindless. “But I can give thee more:for I will raise her statue in pure gold; that while Verona by that name is known, there shall no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful Juliet”. Both families then made a decision as the adults they were and reconciled for the love for the family.
ReplyDeleteThe play of Romeo and Juliet I believe is based on the foolishness of adults.
ReplyDeleteIt is about the foolishness of adults because if it weren’t for the adult’s family’s grudges against each other, they would have never been dead. Juliet and Romeo would have never had to hide their love for each other, Juliet would have never had to take the potion, Romeo would have never killed himself so in the end Juliet would have never killed herself either! The two family’s have had this feud for so long, and their the ones who taught there kids to hate the opposite family. The Capulet’s and Montague’s don’t even know why their fighting, that how ridiculous it is. Both families are highly honored in Verona, and the prince of Verona, Italy has even told them to stop fighting before or else something very bad will happen, and they didn’t listen. “This letter doth make good the friar's words, their course of love, the tidings of her death: And here he writes that he did buy a poison, of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal, Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet. Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. And I for winking at your discords too. Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd.” Even the prince of Verona here is blaming the adults. He’s telling them see, see what you’ve done to your own children. Because if they never held this pointless grudge this would have never happened. The parents of Juliet especially thought always that they knew what was best for her. They we’re going to force her into a marriage that she didn’t even want. And did not only Romeo and Juliet die because of the adult’s immaturity, but even Tybalt. Tybalt was always looking for a fight to begin with, but he knew, his parents probably wouldn’t care, and might even be proud of he fought with the Montague’s because they hated them as well.
The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a story about two teenagers in love that cant be together. The major theme that takes place in this tragedy is that the foolishness of adults can make a huge impact on their kids lives. By the end of this tragic tale the main characters and the friends/family end up losing their lives. The deaths of the teenagers start with Mercutio. This death was not caused by adults but ended in a chain reaction with the others. The best example of The foolishness of adults could be either Friar Lawrence or the Capulets and Montagues. Friar because his plan failed. Ultimately the fighting of the families ended in killing Romeo and Juliet.
ReplyDeleteRome and Juliet is based on the foolishness of adults. The theme of the story is the feud between the capulets and the Montagues. when romeo and Juliet first meet, they fall in love, soon after they find out that there only loves are there only enemies. this leads them to impulsity and getting married without even telling there parents. so basically if the parents weren't holding the grudge that they couldn't even remember why, this tragic wouldn't have happened. also, if the parents could have been more mature and realized that there children were truly in love,instead of keeping them apart they could still have been alive.
ReplyDeleteThe tragic play of Romeo and Juliet is a tale about both the irrationality of teenagers AND the foolishness of adults. Although I believe BOTH are valid arguments I choose to argue the fact that the irrationality of teenagers is the main idea. I think that the irrationality of teenagers is a better argument then the foolishness of adults because; even if the families weren’t feuding Capulet would have still wanted Juliet to marry Paris and thus forth not approving the marriage or the love of Romeo and Juliet. I also think that it’s the main idea because Romeo and Juliet never stopped and thought about what they were doing and how quick everything was going. They only really got married in the first place because they thought that the other was extremely attractive and they thought that, that was love. I think that them getting married and proclaiming their love for each other was a little over the top and a little unbelievable. I also think it’s because of the irrationality of teenagers because when deciding to kill themselves if maybe Romeo had just stopped and though about what he were doing first before he killed himself maybe he would have had time to see Juliet awaken and avoid the whole thing. One the other hand I assume that’s what Shakespeare’s thoughts were when making the play to enhance the tragedy.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was a story about the irrationality of teenagers. Romeo and Juliet are both teenagers who are very inexperienced with life. They both fall in love knowing that their families are enemies yet they do not understand the consequences. All of their lives, Romeo and Juliet were taught to hate the opposite family while their own families did the same thing. When Romeo encountered Juliet at the Capulet party, he knew that he wasn't supposed to be there because he was going to start a fight. This was very foolish for Romeo and his friends to do. Juliet knew that her parents would not approve of the relationship yet she decided to get married. Getting married was probably the worst thing that both Romeo and Juliet could do when their families were feuding. Falling so madly in love led them both to death when they could have avoided it when they should be listening to their parent's advice. Their relationship was unorthodox, and they both knew that yet they kept pushing through till the end. Even though they may have been in love, they were star crossed lovers. Romeo and Juliet were never meant to be.
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