Selfishness In Romeo And Juliet
Sorry guys but this is not actually complete, so its a tad bit rough.
Romeo and Juliet Speech
By Jordan Kirkaldy
If you watch the news you will see that contemporary teenage audiences of today are motivated by selfishness, lust, immaturity, and violence. These themes have been relevant to teenagers all through time, even that of the innocent and romantic couple in the play Romeo and Juliet. Although the main characters are wholly in love and cannot bear to be apart they are unable to escape that of what they truly are, selfish, rebellious, lustful, violent and false loving teens.
The plays central theme of love is one consistently used in books and films aimed at teenagers, but the love that is expressed through the plays main characters …show more content…
This selfishness does not just occur between Romeo and Juliet, this selfishness is something that occurs through the play such as the Capulet’s selfishness for making Juliet marries a man that she did not love. Both of the families were selfish for continuing the fighting and Friar Lawrence ran away when he saw the two families go into the tomb to prevent himself from getting into trouble. Tybalt was selfish for killing Mercutio and Romeo was not thinking of Juliet as he killed her …show more content…
The relationship between love and hate is shown perfectly through the relationship between Romeo and Juliet where the hate between the two houses of the Montague’s and Capulet’s is turned in to an insatiable passion for one another.
The conflicts that occur are quite similar to that of modern teen through the fact that the confrontations are both mature and childish were there are numerous violence acts caused over supposed honor but is in fact just an excuse to fight. This two associated factors is what brings about the tragedies if the play, the characters have the maturity to act as though they were adults but yet still childish as to act unnecessarily.
Through the play the conflict that occurs is caused by something that occurs in all teen that of hormones. This biological factor is the cause of not only the characters lustfulness but also the unnecessary violence that occurs through the play, as shown in
It is astonishing to see Romeo and Juliet, the romantic innocent couple broken down into that of lustful, selfish, immature, hormonal, violent teens. But yet they are exactly that
Romeo and Juliet Speech
By Jordan Kirkaldy
If you watch the news you will see that contemporary teenage audiences of today are motivated by selfishness, lust, immaturity, and violence. These themes have been relevant to teenagers all through time, even that of the innocent and romantic couple in the play Romeo and Juliet. Although the main characters are wholly in love and cannot bear to be apart they are unable to escape that of what they truly are, selfish, rebellious, lustful, violent and false loving teens.
The plays central theme of love is one consistently used in books and films aimed at teenagers, but the love that is expressed through the plays main characters …show more content…
This selfishness does not just occur between Romeo and Juliet, this selfishness is something that occurs through the play such as the Capulet’s selfishness for making Juliet marries a man that she did not love. Both of the families were selfish for continuing the fighting and Friar Lawrence ran away when he saw the two families go into the tomb to prevent himself from getting into trouble. Tybalt was selfish for killing Mercutio and Romeo was not thinking of Juliet as he killed her …show more content…
The relationship between love and hate is shown perfectly through the relationship between Romeo and Juliet where the hate between the two houses of the Montague’s and Capulet’s is turned in to an insatiable passion for one another.
The conflicts that occur are quite similar to that of modern teen through the fact that the confrontations are both mature and childish were there are numerous violence acts caused over supposed honor but is in fact just an excuse to fight. This two associated factors is what brings about the tragedies if the play, the characters have the maturity to act as though they were adults but yet still childish as to act unnecessarily.
Through the play the conflict that occurs is caused by something that occurs in all teen that of hormones. This biological factor is the cause of not only the characters lustfulness but also the unnecessary violence that occurs through the play, as shown in
It is astonishing to see Romeo and Juliet, the romantic innocent couple broken down into that of lustful, selfish, immature, hormonal, violent teens. But yet they are exactly that