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Independence In Romeo And Juliet

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Many teenagers will often experience the feeling that they are constantly being treated like a 4 year old child, continuously not given enough independence away from their parents. In the tragic William Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet, the parents of these two star crossed lovers played a significant role in the development of their growing teenager. William Shakespeare often contrasts the two teens and mocks modern society about the difference of allowing a teen to have independence. Frequently, many teenager students have parents that do not allow them to experience more independence, thus a survey was conducted at Huntington Beach High school to determine whether or not that teens feel they are being treated like a baby too often. I hypothesized …show more content…

This reveals that most teens do not like to be treated as a younger child, that needs special care all the time. In fact, this is a key component because the emotions expressed by teenagers signify the start of adult independence. Albeit giving teenagers too much independence is awful, providing them with too little independence creates a jail-like environment, trapping its victims within it. For instance, Juliet is allowed to roam the city as she pleases, but her parents have decided to determine whom Juliet gets to marry. Juliet believes that marrying Paris, whom her parents decided for her to marry, “is an honor that [she] dream not of,” which reveals that she does not approve of the of forced marriage that her parents acted upon her (I.iii 66). On the other hand, Romeo is allowed to have all the independence he desires, but this allows him to behave and act in a different way. Since Romeo never spends time with his family, he does not create a connection with relatives to discuss why his, “sad hours seem long” in which will comfort him and reassures him that everything will be

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