Teenage Relationships In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Teenage love is seen to be a necessity to the teenagers growing and maturing. Too many teens believe that they have to be in a relationship, but relationships at that age turn into terrible situations. Relationships at the teen age is also thought as necessary to show the teens how to grow and mature, but Romeo and Juliet’s love story for the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, proves that teenage relationships are harmful for mental and physical health for the fact that they gave up their lives over a relationship. In Romeo and Juliet, they fall in love too fast and make irrational decisions, which seems to be the major problem in all teen relationships. Many teens make too many irrational decisions when it comes to “love”. Some people can experience love at a young age, but others believe it is love due to sex happening so soon, which is even …show more content…

Romeo and Juliet took their own lives for each other. Relationships ruin the way people feel about life sometimes, more in the adolescent age. People become too attached and dependent on that one person so when they are out of their life, they give up on happiness or life. This happens quite frequently. Too many teens believe in love and in the term ‘forever’. A lot of the time, teenage relationships aren’t forever. The kids are too young to know to how keep the relationship going. Many teens become too attached to a person so when they leave, they are lost. In Romeo and Juliet, they are both lost without each other. They can barely leave the other’s side so when Romeo is banished, Juliet is completely lost and distraught because she was too attached to Romeo because everything was too haste. They fell “in love” too fast for teens, then they were both destroyed mentally. If they had no experienced so much so fast, they may not have been so destroyed, but that is the problem with teenage