Of Blakemore's Speech: The Mysterious Working Of The Adolescent Mind

Have you read “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare? Well, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s speech, “The Mysterious Working of the Adolescent Mind” , a TED talk discussion, explains about how the adolescent mind works and grows. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” there was 6 deaths, and the two young teens, Romeo and juliet, fall in love and commit suicide because of a family feud that lasted long enough for anyone to even remember why there was a feud in the first place. In the TED talk speech, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a neuroscientist who uses MRI to study the Prefrontal cortex that is still developing in the adolescents mind, talks about how adolescents think and act as they age into teens. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s thesis on adolescent development sheds light on some of the nonsensical decision making in shakespeare's Romeo and juliet, as characters certainly face the risk-taking, impulse control, and mood swings she describes. First of all, Romeo and Juliet’s choice of getting married was a major risk that they took, which was only based on their emotions. “Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,” a quote directly from shakespeare’s play on page 1027 proves that Juliet is rushing into the marriage. Even though she barely just met Romeo on Monday, she wants to marry him on Tuesday. ”they take risks,”quoted

My last quote from the play, found on page 1048 is “ Thy beauty hath made me effeminate and in my temper softened valor’s steel!”. My last quote from the play shows that romeo cares about his reputation and his anger was too much and he decided to kill tybalt in spite. My last quote from the speech found on the time of 10:07 of the speech is “They’re sometimes moody,”. Sarah’s words say that teens can be moody, which shows that Romeo’s prefrontal cortex has been growing since the beginning of the