Mature In Romeo And Juliet

Imagine dying after three days as the result of loving somebody so much. In the drama, Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare two families feud, but their children fall madly in love. With the families hatred, they must marry in secret. Duels burst out and Romeo is sentenced to banishment. A question is often asked, do Romeo and Juliet mature? No Romeo and Juliet do not mature throughout the play at all.
Romeo was fifteen and Juliet was thirteen even nowadays people aren't fully mature at those ages. Romeo would get involved in fights and in the play the older people didn’t. That’s because Romeo was immature and the older men were mature. Juliet is shown to be immature in an early scene where her father tells Paris his daughter is not old and grown-up enough to marry. "My child is yet a stranger in the world, she hath not seen the charge of fourteen years. . ." ( Scene 2, Act 1). Romeo's inclination to fall in love easily was first shown in his love for Rosaline. He says that he is in love and Juliet is the only one for him, but he seemed to have forgotten his “love” for Rosaline even though he speaks of Juliet as he spoke of Rosaline only a few short hours before.

Nevertheless, Juliet always threatened to kill herself whenever she didn’t get her way. In Act 4 Scene 1 it says,”..I long to die if what thou speak’st speak not of remedy.” This basically means that if Friar Lawrence doesn’t a solution then she will kill herself. This is very childlike, melodramatic and immature. All Juliet is doing in this scene is throwing a tantrum. Romeo said that banishment was worse than death. In Act 3 Scene 3 it says, “Ha! Banishment! Be merciful, say death.” This is Romeo saying how banishment is way worse than death and that the nicest thing would be death. Furthermore, he is being very climactic, which is not mature at