Romeo and Juliet essay Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s thesis on adolescents development sheds light on some of the nonsensial decisions making in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, as characters certainly face the risk, danger, and depression because of this.The adolescents tend to take more risk, danger, and be depressed.
In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet take many big risks throughout the whole play that can get them in huge trouble, or even killed. One of the many risks they take is liking each other and getting married. This would be normal and okay with other people but the problem with this is that Romeo and Juilet’s families have hated each other for ages and, not to mention they met on a sunday just to get married on Monday. Instead of trying to settle the feud and tell the families nicely that they fell in love, they sneak out and…show more content… Juliet faces huge danger when Friar Laurence tells Juliet about a potion he has that will put her to sleep for 42 hours and that it can prevent her from getting married to Paris. Friar Laurence tells Juliet the dangers of drinking the potion like never waking up or even dying but Juliet does not seem to care. Juliet simply responses to Friar Laurence’s warnings with “Give me, give me! O, tell me not of fear.” This shows that Juliet is not really thinking things straight and it's most likely because she is still really young so her brain isn't fully developed yet.
Depression is also a big thing that occurs a lot throughout the whole play. Depression hits hardest when Romeo is forced to leave Verona because of Tybalt's death.Depression hits the hardest here because Romeo and Juliet can not see each other any more so Juliet wants to kill herself. “This is thy sheath; there rust,and let me die.” All this supports the statements said during the tedtalk about teenagers and how they tend to be in depression for dumb reason since Juliet had just met
