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Beautiful Brains Character Analysis

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In Romeo and Juliet, the teenage characters make poor decisions throughout the play. David Dobbs, the author of “Beautiful Brains”, elucidates to us that the teen brain sometimes tends to do things perfunctory. Due to teenager’s age, their brain is not fully developed, so they would not know the full consequences of their actions. This continuously happens in the story, and many choices that they make are kept secret, which is even worse for them to do. The articles, “Beautiful Brains” and “Insight into the Teenage Brain”, helps us further understand why they are making these decision and why they don’t know when to stop. During the second scene of Act II, Romeo and Juliet decide to get married after having met hours before at the Capulet party. In the scene that follows, Romeo asks Friar Lawrence, “But this I pray, that thou consent to marry us today” (Shakespeare 410). Here, Romeo is requesting that Friar Lawrence marry him and Juliet that same day, the morning after they met. This is surprising to both the audience and Friar Lawrence because prior to Romeo attending the party, he was in love with Rosaline and depressed over the fact that she did not love him back. According to the TED Talk: “Insight into the Teenage Brain,” “Because the teenage brain is still …show more content…

“On Thursday, sir? The time is very short”(Shakespeare 451). Paris is planning to have his wedding very soon, and this interrupts the plan that Friar Lawrence had for Romeo and Juliet. But Friar Lawrence had a plan, and the plan was, “Hold, then. Go home, be merry, give consent To marry Paris”(Shakespeare 453). Friar Lawrence wants Juliet to give consent for Paris to marry her, but there is a twist. She is to take a potion which will send her in a death like sleep which will last for fourty-eight hours, and when she wakes up, she will escape from her tomb and run with Romeo to

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After they decided they wanted to get married right away, Romeo and Juliet go to Friar’s cell to get married. Friar first questions the love because Romeo was in love with another women only a few hours ago. He only agrees to marry them because he thinks it will end the family tension. “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; / For this alliance may be so happy prove / To turn your households’ rancor to pure love” (II.iii.90-92).

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When Romeo first comes to talk to Friar Lawrence about marrying Juliet, Friar Lawrence is hesitant to perform the ceremony. He thinks that Romeo is moving too quickly, and that Romeo should not get married to a person he has just met. Despite his doubts though, he marries Romeo and Juliet behind their parent’s backs in the hopes that a marriage between the two families will end the feud. Friar Lawrence does not take into account how this will affect Romeo and Juliet. He even predicts that “These violent delights have violent ends,” meaning that he thinks that their love will end badly because it began so

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When Romeo is banished from Verona to Mantua due to his actions, Juliet is heartbroken. But her heart aches even further when she learns that she will be married to Paris. Wanting to escape the marriage and run away with Romeo, Friar Lawrence devises a plan. In this plan, Romeo will take Juliet away after she drinks a potion that will make her fall into a deep slumber for 42 hours, feigning death. Juliet takes the potion and falls asleep, and Paris, who could have married her, visits her tomb in morning.

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Romeo was accused by murdering and the sentence was banishment from the city. If Romeo couldn’t come back, so Juliet will have to marry Paris! Storyteller 1: Although, friar Lawrence had a plan. He decides to male a potion form some flowers and give to Juliet. The drink will cause ‘’death-like sleep’’.

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But come, young waverer, come go with me. In one respect I’ll thy assistant be;For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.” Friar Lawrence is talking to Romeo about him and Juliet getting married. This quote shows that friar Lawrence wanted Romeo and Juliet to get married.

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the Friar gave Juliet a potion. The potion was going to put Juliet to sleep for 48 hours and it will look like she is dead, everyone will think she is dead but Friar Lawrence, he did not tell Romeo of his plan which was the biggest flaw in the plan. That is the biggest reason why Friar Lawrence is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and

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Give consent/To marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow./Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone./ Let not the Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber./Take thou this vial, being then in bed,/And this distillèd liquor drink thou off,/” (4.1.92-97). Friar Lawrence convinces the naive Juliet to take the potion and pose as if she was dead. He wants her to go through with it because it means that no one will find out that he secretly married the two young lovers.

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The friar says, “What, rouse thee, man! They Juliet is alive, for whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead... Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed; ascend her chame; hence, and comfort her. For then thou canst pass to Mantua.” So Friar Lawrence concludes that Romeo should go be with Juliet and then the next day Romeo will escape Verona in a disguise so no one will suspect him, he will live in Mantua until a time is found to tell everyone about the

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This shows that Friar Laurence doesn't believe that Romeo's love for Juliet is authentic, but he agrees to marry them anyway. The Friar believes that a marriage between a young Capulet and a young Montague might be able to put an end to the family feud. It can be said that he didn’t really care for the marriage, and that he just wanted to join the two families. This claim is invalid because

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When Juliet and Romeo were faced with a conflict, they would act based upon their emotions rather than coming up with rational solutions that would benefit both parties. They were only thinking in the moment, and not of the future consequences. Unfortunately, their rash decisions led to tragic incidents and the deaths of friends, family, and themselves. The problematic impulsiveness from the main characters could be taken as a moral, that love can control one’s mind to behave recklessly, leading to troubling

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He was the one who married the two, hoping that the marriage would cause an end to the feuding. Romeo and Juliet getting married was banned and wouldn't be able to take place without Friar Lawrence. Friar Lawrence stupidly chose to marry Romeo and Juliet even though he knew that it would cause issues in the future. The Friar says in the beginning of the story "this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households' rancor to pure love." (II iv 91-92) This shows that the Friar has doubts and only has a small bit of hope that Romeo and Juliet's marriage will actually be successful.

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It is one of the first things you see in Romeo: "But this I pray, / That thou consent to marry us to-day" (Act 2 Scene 3). In that quote, it can be seen in Romeo's decision to marry so suddenly, particularly when he begs Friar Laurence to marry he and Juliet that day. Based on this, the reader can infer that Romeo is impulsive and there was no real reason to want to be married so suddenly. When Romeo finds his friends Benvolio and Mercutio engaged in a heated exchange with Tybalt, he rushes to stop the aggression between Mercutio and Tybalt. Unfortunately, Mercutio is stabbed because Romeo impulsively steps in the way, preventing Mercutio's sword from defending him.

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