Romeo And Juliet Overcoming Challenges Essay

Overcoming Challenges in Literature
Romeo and Juliet is a famous tragedy by William Shakespeare that is essentially linked to books written even 400 years later. The Maze Runner by James Dashner is an example of a book that takes on a similar concept to Shakespeare's play. In Romeo and Juliet, the two protagonists kill themselves to “be together” because they are impulsive and rely on others to solve their problems, which is an example of young people failing to overcome challenges. However, in the novel The Maze Runner, unlike Romeo and Juliet, the main characters are faced with countless challenges, but work together and persist through them to overcome them.
Both pieces of literature have the same concept of young people overcoming challenges,

Despite all of this Romeo and Juliet fall in love with each other at first sight even expressing the fact that they know this love is forbidden. Juliet clearly states this when she says “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name!” (Shakespeare 2.2.33-34). She expresses the fact that Romeo being a Montague is the only problem with their relationship and that he should renounce his family to be with her. Even though, both Romeo and Juliet know that they cannot be together, they think that getting married will somehow help them get past the obstacle of feuding families. Which is an example of one of their many impulsive decisions. Romeo and Juliet also go to Friar Laurence to get them married, who reluctantly agrees as he thinks it will unite the families. After Romeo is exiled he goes to the friar who tells him “For then thou canst not pass to

The boys are all trapped in a place inside of a dangerous maze. Despite this the main character Thomas goes into the maze to save one of the other boys. “Thomas sat back against it himself, panting from exertion, thinking. As he looked into the dark recesses of the Maze, he searched his mind for a solution. He could hardly see anything, and he knew, despite what Minho had said, that it’d be stupid to run even if he could carry Alby. Not only was there the chance of getting lost, he could actually find himself running toward the Grievers instead of away from them. He thought of the wall, the ivy. Minho hadn’t explained, but he had made it sound as if climbing the walls was impossible. Still … A plan formed in his mind,” (Dashner 120-121). Even though the third person in the maze with them, Minho, ran away, Thomas tried his hardest to make a plan to save Alby, the one in need. The plan eventually worked out and everyone made it out safely. They also found a possible way to escape the maze because of all of this. This moment in the story is simply one example of how the characters in the novel, unlike in the play, are capable of overcoming different challenges. Another example would be at the climax of the book when the author writes this “‘I am.’ Thomas knew he was right about the Hole, the code, the door, the need to fight.