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Romeo And Juliet Dbq Analysis

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Laying there on the smooth, stone floor in a dark cellar are the two dearest lovers of this very honorable city. Their dark-red, congenial blood dripping from his mouth and her stomach created a stream, a stream flowing through the tiny fissures in the old stone making a path all the way to the eminent coffin where she had once lain. This incident well describes the piece of William Shakespeare’s most prominent tragedy where the two, star-crossed lovers take their lives for each other: Romeo and Juliet. In this case, Romeo and Juliet’s brains are the most to blame for their deaths because of the development of their brains, the effects of their love, and the thought-process of these lovers. Romeo and Juliet’s brains are to condemn for their …show more content…

They’re parodied, sometimes even demonized in the media for their type of typical teenage behavior. They take risks, they’re sometimes moody, they’re very self-conscious.” (Doc A). The intellect of teens is evidently the reason for Romeo and Juliet taking all the risks. As they both were still teens, they more willingly took risks to spend as much time with each other as possible, which resulted in their deaths. However, they were both self-conscious as Blakemore said as they knew when to separate and leave or when to kiss or not kiss. Furthermore, they both may have committed suicide as a result of going into depression because initially, Romeo thought Juliet was dead and ended up drinking the poison. Later on, Juliet had woken up and realized Romeo had killed himself which brought her into a state of depression and ended up stabbing herself. Furthermore, Blakemore mentions that students are more likely to take risks when compared to mature adults: “We know that adolescents have a tendency to take risks. They do. …show more content…

For instance, Benedict Carey says that love causes people to tune out everyone except their lover: “New love can look for all the world like mental illness, a blend of mania, dementia and obsession that cuts people off from friends and family and prompts out-of-character behavior- compulsive phone calling, serenades, yelling from rooftops- that could almost be mistaken for psychosis.” (Doc B). The severe effects of love had caused Romeo and Juliet to obsess over each other, to an extent at which they cared for no one else except each other. Since Romeo and Juliet did not have phones, they had the compulsive urge to meet each other in person. At the same time, both of them seemed as if they forgot about their parents and their closest friends (Romeo and Benvolio). If their brains didn’t tune out their families and friends, they could have been given advice which may have resulted in their survival. Moreover, Helen Fisher claims that love is an addiction whether it is going well or going miserably: “I’ve also come to believe that romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it is going well, and perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly.” (Doc C). As stated by Fisher, love is addicting and keeps people clung on to it, no matter what the circumstances may be. In this case, Romeo and Juliet were not able to let go of each other

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