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Maturity Quotes In Romeo And Juliet

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Maturity comes with age and the people who surround you with knowledge. To become mature you must undergo mentorship and learn from the experiences of those around you. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the two young lovers let their immaturity, and poor guidance lead to rash decisions and ultimately their deaths. Romeo’s thoughtless actions mirror his immature behavior. Juliet craves the thought of independence, she lacks knowing which advice given to her was right. Because of this, she makes childish decisions with and for Romeo. Romeo makes decisions that are influenced by his “need for love.” His desire for young love guides him toward immature, reckless decisions. Romeo was upset after Rosaline, whom Romeo claimed to …show more content…

Which ultimately caused her to make rash decisions for both her and Romeo. Juliet asks the Nurse for advice, as she was her primary caregiver, on how she can escape her marriage situation, the nurse says, “ O, He’s a lovely gentleman! Romeo’s dishclout to him. An eagle, madam, Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye as Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart.” The Nurse is telling Juliet to marry Paris rather than Romeo. She gives her advice that the parents would want for Juliet, rather than what Juliet wants for herself, which would lead her to confusion about herself, and the future decisions she would have to make. Likewise, Juliet would receive a lack of communication from her “mentors.” Often the adults in Juliet's life would keep things from her, whether it was on purpose or not. When Juliet was trying to save herself and Romeo’s teenage love. Juliet makes a plan with Friar Lawrance, he was supposed to deliver a letter to Romeo regarding the plan, but it gets lost, Friar Lawrance says, “ Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, the letter was not nice but full of charge, Of dear import, and the neglecting it may do much danger…” Friar Lawrance does not tell Juliet that Romeo never recieved letter, which results in Juliet being asleep from the potion, and Romeo soon taking his life.

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After the Nurse speaks with Romeo she hurries back to the Capulet house to inform Juliet of her lover’s idea and tells her, “Hie you to church. I must go another way/To fetch a ladder, by which you love/Must climb a bird’s nest soon when it is dark” (II.v.77-79). The Nurse demonstrates her devotion to Juliet as she expresses her desire to find “another way” (II.v.77) to help the young lovers spend their wedding night together and by doing so risks losing her job. She understands the true passion Romeo and Juliet have for each other and does everything she can to make them happy even if that means upsetting their families. This teaches the reader that helping those you love is more important than doing something that does not align with your own morals, like separating two star-crossed lovers because of a centuries-old family

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She knew Juliet was just 13-year-old but still decides to go and do everything Juliet tells her too, like to talk to Romeo and ask him when they’re getting married and what time. The nurse also tells Juliet she wants, wishes to see Juliet get married someday. For example, it states in document B lines 8-10, “Thou wast the prettiest babe that e’er I nursed. An I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish”. The nurse is the one to blame she knew that Juliet mother wanted Juliet to get married with Paris and no one else but she did the opposite and took her to Romeo so they could get

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I agree with the Nurse when she says that Juliet should marry Count Paris. Juliet does not agree with any of this and believes that Romeo is her better option because he loves her back. This will cause the relationship that Juliet has with the nurse to be damaged. For example, at the end of Scene 5 of Act 3, Juliet is on her way to the Friar's cell when she says, "I'll to the friars to know his remedy. If all else fail, myself have power to die.

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Her naivety blinds her to the potential dangers of the clandestine marriage between Romeo and Juliet, leading to a lack of caution in their interactions. Rather than exercising prudence and urging restraint, the Nurse enables their forbidden love affair by facilitating their secret meetings, thereby disregarding the implications of their actions. Her negligence in considering the potential repercussions of their relationship directly contributes to the mounting tensions and escalating violence that ultimately leads to their untimely deaths. Despite her position of trust and loyalty to Juliet, the Nurse's allegiance proves questionable when confronted with conflicting loyalties. In Act III, when Juliet's world collapses following Romeo's banishment, the Nurse advises her to abandon Romeo and marry Paris, betraying the deep bond she once shared with Juliet.

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As she grows closer to Romeo her maturity and sensibility decreases and she starts to act more like Romeo. He was not only not a good role model or leader to her, but he also brought her into the same terrible mindset that he is in. Romeo also could have shown more maturity when he gets banished, then disobeys the princes’ order to leave Verona, and he goes to see Juliet. When Friar Lawrence gives the idea to “Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed. Ascend her chamber.

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These conflicting ideas presented to Juliet by her caretaker leads Juliet into her predicament. First the nurse acts as a courier, delivering messages between Romeo and Juliet. These actions portray the nurse as supporting Juliet’s relationship with Romeo. The nurse then tells Romeo that “There is a nobleman in town, one/ Paris, that would fain lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as/ lieve see a toad, a very toad, as see him” (38). When the nurse goes to tell Romeo this information, she informs him of this man, Paris, who is pining for Juliet’s love, but she also tells him that Juliet has no feelings for Paris, only for him, Romeo.

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In the story we are told that Juliet is 13 and Romeo is about 16, both of them are very young and thus immature, but as a 16 year old Romeo went from “loving” Rosaline to “falling in love” with Juliet the next day, not only does he fall in love with her, he evens makes plans to marry her after this night, they end up getting married the next day. Later on in the play there is a scene where Tybalt stabs and kills Mercutio, and Romeo being unable to control his emotions kills Tybalt which leads to him being banished from Verona and goes to Mantua. If Romeo were more mature and was able to think things through before acting, then he may not have been as obsessed with Juliet and he wouldn’t have killed Tybalt which led to Friar Lawrence’s bad

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In Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet makes a poor decision when the Nurse suggests she should marry Paris, and Romeo makes a similar decision when the Friar encourages him to have an optimistic view on his banishment. In Juliet's room, when talking to Juliet the Nurse thinks that it would be better if she “married with the County” (3.5.230). The Nurse is a bad caretaker by making Juliet feel bad for marrying Romeo. The Nurse implies that she should marry Paris just because of family status and money.

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In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet was a very quiet girl who followed the rules her parents gave her. But, after meeting Romeo, she started to break the rules and disobey her parents. Juliet is more mature at the beginning of the story, and even though she is more mature than Romeo throughout the book she becomes naive and stops thinking clearly. She experiences love throughout the entire book, from the moment she meets Romeo at the party to the end when she dies. Even though Juliet decided to marry Romeo and kill herself irresponsibly, they were mature decisions for someone her age.

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But Romeo does mature eventually. The exact moment he matures is after he kills Tybalt, gets banished from Verona, and talks to Friar. Friar basically tells Romeo that he is being childish and he should be happy he did not get executed and if anything Romeo should be grateful. So because of Friars talk Romeo realized that he just needs to accept it, After seeing Juliet because this

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The Nurse helped out Juliet when her Parents could not. “As I told you my young lady bade me inquire you out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself”(Act II.II.148-149). The Nurse has offered to keep the secret of the marriage between the two young ones and she will not tell anyone about it. After the Nursze comes back from visting Romeo she finds ways to not tell Juliet the good news instead she starts talking about other things, the Nurse also knows how delighted juliet will be once when she finds out about the wedding “Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a courteous, and a kind,...where is your mother?”(Act II.II.55-57). The day of Mercutio and Tybalt 's death she did not think Romeo would do such a thing, and now her thoughts about Romeo have changed instead she thinks Romeo would end up hurting her young lady.

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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.

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As people mature, so does the way they understand those closest to them. People we once so closely adored are now an afterthought to us. Additionally, we can use the idea of your body changing as a teenager to the closest relationships. For example, we start rapid weight gain and .In William Shakesphere’s most successful drama Romeo and Juliet, he uses the themes of immaturity and obsession to show the development of love between Romeo and Juliet.

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“Maturity is not by age, but the acceptance of your responsibilities” (Unknown). In William Shakespeare 's, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo, who is a Montague and Juliet, who is a Capulet, met at a Capulet party. Romeo went to the party and met Juliet. They fell in love and got married the next day. Later that day, Romeo kills Juliet 's cousin, Tybalt.

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She is able to deceive the Nurse from suspecting that she fell in love with Romeo. Furthermore, Juliet struggles with another problem when her parents decide that she was to marry the Count Paris when she was already married to Romeo. When Juliet refuses to marry Paris, she states, “I will not even marry yet, and when I do I swear it shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, rather than Paris.” (III.v.126). She is not obedient to her parents like she used to.

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