Romeo And Juliet: Rass Decisions

Everyone knows the tragic love story between Romeo and Juliet, forbidden lovers. Two teenagers fell in love and got married in less than twenty-four hours. It was love at first sight. Teens nowadays still can be immature and make rash decisions thinking they're in love, often sneaking out of the house and disobeying their parents. People will do crazy things for love. On the other hand, teens nowadays don't get married as young and don't talk the same.

To begin with, Romeo and Juliet rushed into a relationship like teens today do all the time. When you rush into a relationship you don’t get to know the person before you start to date. In the text, it states,” We met, we wooed, and made exchange of vow, I'll tell thee as we pass; but

Which was a rash decision like teens today make, many will make quick immature decisions that can ruin the rest of their lives. Getting into the wrong crowd, doing drugs, and skipping school can come at a big cost. Many issues could have been avoided in Romeo and Juliet if they didn't make such reckless decisions. In addition, many teens go for looks and not personality. Don't judge a book by its cover. Romeo and teens today fall in love with looks before the heart. In the text, it states,” Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight / For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." Romeo wanted to be with Juliet because of her beauty, not her personality and Juliet wanted to be with Romeo because she didn’t want to be married off to Paris. Two young immature teenagers who know so little of love, who thought they had grasped the idea of what love is when they were blinded by what each other could give them instead. Furthermore, teens today will sneak around their parents to see each other or to feel in control like Romeo and Juliet did in this story.

Some things are far from the same. The way they talk is one thing that stands outs as different. It was more sophisticated and mature than nowadays. Using words such as “thou“ and “sped” regularly for them. Teens nowadays use different slang such as “omg” and “cap” notice the difference? The difference is back when the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was written, that is how they talked proper and they were more sophisticated than teens today. Romeo and Juliet were set in the Renaissance period while now known as the Common Era. As well as, back then teenagers were often married young and many had arranged marriages, nowadays people can pick who they want to be with and there are laws about how old a person must be to date. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo was seventeen and Juliet was thirteen.Which is against the law in today’s