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In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is influenced by the psychology and cognition of the adolescent brain which causes him to be impulsive, fall into the trap of a teenage crush, and have excess dopamine. Romeo’s experiences and decisions are all acts of impulse. One example of when Romeo acts impulsive is when Romeo and Juliet decide they are going to get married the day that they met. Some research that proves that teens are impulsive is “teenagers react more impulsively towards threatening situations compared to adults and children” (Underwood). A second example of when Romeo acts impulsive is when Romeo kills Tybalt because he feels threatened by him. Romeo and Tybalt fight leading to “This shall determine that. …show more content…

Romeo was obsessed with Rosaline and was depressed when he found out she didn’t like him back and as soon as he saw Juliet he completely forgot about her. The text says “You don’t want a teenage crush to become a fixation, a young person unable to stop daydreaming and fantasizing all the time about this person” (Pickhardt). Romeo and Juliet supposedly fell in love right as they met, but I feel like it was more that Romeo had been heartbroken and was very weak, and their love wasn’t real. The text says “When the devout religion of my eye Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fire; And those who often drowned could never die, Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars! One fairer than my love! The all-seeing sun. Ne'er saw her match since first the world began.” (Shakespeare 1.2.91-96). Romeo makes a bad decision to go into the Capulet’s Orchard just to see Juliet again because he feels that they are in love. “Crushes have more to do with fantasy than with reality, and they tell much more about the admirer than the admired. It’s because they usually prove unrealistic that in a relatively short time, they soon wear off” (Pickhardt). Romeo sees Juliet at the party and instantly goes up to her and confesses his feelings. “If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: [Romeo takes Juliet’s hand] My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss” (Shakespeare

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In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the title characters make impulsive decisions from the moment they are introduced to the audience. For example, during the first moments of meeting in Act I, both Romeo and Juliet profess their love for each other and Juliet even claims, in seeking out Romeo’s identity, that “If he is married, My grave is like to be my wedding bed” (Shakespeare 396). Juliet, in these lines, is stating that if she cannot have Romeo, she would rather die than be with anyone else. This behavior is rather surprising, as Juliet has just met Romeo and knows nothing about him.

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Shakespeare uses the young lovers to demonstrate that the development of overwhelming passion creates impulsivity. First, he demonstrates that through the way Romeo's intense love for Rosaline makes him crash the Capulet party. Prior to attending the party Romeo says “ [he] fears too early, for [his] mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night’s revels expire the term of despised life”(Shakespeare 1.4.57). Here Romeo foreshadows that events that will occur during that night by saying how he fears that something bad will happen that will result in his death. Romeo has a bad feeling about crashing the party yet still decides to attend the party so he could have that ability to

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Characterization:.. I consider Juliet to be an impulsive person because of her words and actions. For example, she was impulsive when she met Romeo in the chapel to marry each other. “But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up half my wealth,” (Shakespeare, page 134). She says her love has grown so much for a man she met two days ago, and had less than a handful of conversations with each other. Juliet was impulsive when she took the potion from Friar Laurence.

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Whether it be now or 200 years ago teenage impulsivity still has its consequences like it did for Romeo and Juliet, similarly as it has for our current society. Romeo and Juliet were destined lovers, which meant they would go to any length to be together. This was their greatest strength as well as their greatest weakness. It is made clear from the start that Romeo and Juliet would do just about anything in order to be together in their frantic tale of love. Despite this, some of the things which both of them are willing to do can be put off as desperate impulsivity.

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(2.2.118-120), which confirms how their love was sudden and has no strength that backs up their apparent “love”. This proves that Juliet didn’t know what she was doing when accepting to marry Romeo because she didn’t have time to reflect on the situation she was putting herself in. To reiterate it is important to note that Friar Lawrence also warned Romeo that he was being impulsive and not thinking clearly as he was still in love with someone else not so long ago because as previously stated in the text, “Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies/Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”

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It helps explain the decisions and actions that they choose. “They are more likely to experiment on the spur of the moment…”(Professor Laurence). Romeo and Juliet's help gives this quote justice as they get married soon after they have just met. “Go ask his name.-If he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding”(Juliet, 134-135). There are such new thoughts and excitement in their brain, that make them vulnerable to impulsion.

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That just shows how fast Romeo’s feelings can change and how he cannot decipher the difference between love and lust. There are also a lot of people who believe that Romeo’s love for Juliet is sincere. But in this case, there is too much evidence that prove that Romeo’s love for Juliet is not true love. His attraction is more physical than emotional. And because Romeo and Juliet got married the same day they met, his love for Juliet was like an obsession.

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