Hormones In Romeo And Juliet

“Get your hormones in check!” Have you ever heard this or something like these? People say this when people are not acting “normal”. You can’t control your hormones no matter what people think. A hormone, according to Randy J. Nelson(2017), is a “chemical messengers released from endocrine glands that travel through the blood system to influence the nervous system to regulate behaviors such as aggression, mating, and parenting of individuals.” In Romeo and Juliet many of the characters were overly aggressive and lustful. Hormones effect your body in many different ways; two of these ways are through aggressive and sexual behavior

Hormones are chemical messages that are sent through the bloodstream to regulate behaviors. Only hormones target cells can react to the hormone. The hormone will bind itself to the
In nearly every species, males are more aggressive than females. When is aggressive behavior seen and why? When a person or multiple people have a conflict of interests is usually when you can see aggressiveness. Another factor to why males are generally more aggressive when they are older is because parents engage in more rough play with infant males.

In Romeo and Juliet most of the main characters were aggressive and or lustful. There is Romeo who loved a mysterious woman, Roselin, but then sees Juliet and falls madly in love with here, but was it love or lust? Next, there is Tybalt. He was a character that right from the start wanted to fight. Then there is Mercutio. He wanted Romeo to fight Tybalt even though Romeo did not want to. So instead Mercutio fought him and that brought him to his death. Now there is Juliet. She all of a suddenly got a lot of attention from Romeo and some of this attention was sexual. That is