Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Love And Maturity?

Explain in detail how both Romeo and Juliet mature during the course of the play.  Cite examples from their speech or actions that illustrate your position.  Please complete this blog response during class today.

27 comments:

Anonymous said...

I really don't feel like they matured at all. There so called "love" wasn't really love I think because they just fell for the outside appearance, and never took the real time to get to know each other. They were both foolish and stupid, and their careless love ended up in their death. They didn't have to kill each other because there is so much more to live for in life than just for some random person.

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Anonymous said...

Both Romeo and Juliet mature throughout the play. Juliet at first didn't even want to think about love and marriage but in the end she loves Romeo so much she dies for him. Romeo was a love sick puppy at first but then he realizes Juliet is his true love and dies for her. They matured from the beginning but not a lot in the real scheme of things.

Anonymous said...

Explain in detail how both Romeo and Juliet mature during the course of the play. Cite examples from their speech or actions that illustrate your position.

Romeo and Juliet, though foolish, did have moments of maturity, and under their circumstances, their death would've come much sooner if the amount of maturity they had been less. With Romeo, he shows maturity by turning down a fight with Tybalt on page 119 by saying "And so, good Capulet...be satisfied." With Juliet, she showed maturity earlier on in the play on page 39 where she speaks of her engagement as "...an honor that I dream not of."

Anonymous said...

I don't think that either of them mature through the story at all. They probably weren't even in love because it was maybe 3 days that they knew eachother and then they caused like 5 deaths. You shouldn't die for the "love of your life" after knowing them for 3 days and seeing them twice.. It's literally stupid

Anonymous said...

I think Romeo and Juliet had to matured fast because 1. they married at a very young age, 2. there family's are moral enemies, and 3. Romeo is banished from Verona. The situation in the story is not right because they should have never gotten married so early without knowing each other. But the love they grow for each other through out the marriage is amazing in my eyes. I think Romeo and Juliet have matured since there marriage but not as much as they should.

Anonymous said...

I personally d not feel like they matured too much throughout the play. They did not know each other for more than a week and had managed to get married and kill multiple people including themselves.

Anonymous said...

I personally d not feel like they matured too much throughout the play. They did not know each other for more than a week and had managed to get married and kill multiple people including themselves.

Anonymous said...

Well they seem mature for a girl agh is 13 because they are not acting like they are 5. Later after they met they were thinking about getting married because Juliet was going to get married with Paris. Though if the guy would have to seen juliet in the casket then Romeo and Juliet would be alive after that.

Anonymous said...

Romeo and Juliet mature because they learn from experiences about one another and love and they learn about losing a loved one and dealing with consequences first hand and they are forced to make decisions based on their problems.

Anonymous said...

Both Romeo and Juliet have gotten more mature throughout the play. As there love gets stronger they have gotten more mature and serious about marrying each other.

Anonymous said...

Romeo and Juliet both matured during the course of the play. As for Romeo, in the beginning, Romeo was very sad and sullen over Rosaline when it came to love. He was then completely in love with Juliet. By the end of the play, he jumps the gun and won't listen to anyone and is so in love with Juliet that he kills himself. As for Juliet, she starts off with being a very obedient child. Then she sneaks out to get married secretly and lies to her parents and goes against her parents values. She then refuses to marry Paris and fakes her own death, then commits suicide because Romeo has died.

Anonymous said...

Both Romeo and Juliet show signs of growing maturity throughout the play. At the beginning, Juliet didn't have any desire to ever get married or fall in love. "It is an honor that I dream not of" (1.3.71), Juliet said in Act I regarding marriage. By the end of the play, however, she is so in love with Romeo that she is willing to take her own life to show her love and commitment to him. Romeo also matured, because before he met Juliet, he was lovesick over Rosaline, who really didn't love him back. At the end of the play, Romeo had forgotten Rosaline, who he really only liked because of her looks, and had realized that Juliet was his true love.

Anonymous said...

Romeo and Juliet barely mature throughout the play, if even at all. Their unintelligent decisions reflect their immaturity. I think that they were so deeply in love, or at least they tricked themselves into how deep their love was, that they made quick irrational decisions. They matured a little; however, not enough for it to be noticeable.

Anonymous said...

I don't feel that Romeo and Juliet have matured much at all during this play. I think that their nonchalant and irrational decision making throughout the course of the play shows their immaturity. I think that they are so deeply in love or in lust that they don't realize they aren't being realistic and immature.

Anonymous said...

I don't believe that Romeo and Juliet matured much at all through their "relationship". I don't believe that they were truly in love or even truly committed to each other. i don't see any maturity because Romeo moved on to Juliet very quickly and Juliet doubts it all at one point but then quickly changes her mind to marriage. Their "relationship" is a disaster that caused many deaths and it truly didn't really prove itself to be truly worth it.

Anonymous said...

I don't believe that Romeo and Juliet have matured the slightest bit. They are still as immature as when they began. I would call them more mature if they thought before they acted or spoke.

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Anonymous said...

I don't feel that Romeo and Juliet have matured much at all during this play. I think that their nonchalant and irrational decision making throughout the course of the play shows their immaturity. I think that they are so deeply in love or in lust that they don't realize they aren't being realistic and immature.

Anonymous said...

To be quite honest, I don't feel like Romeo and Juliet mature at all. The story takes place over the span of a week maybe? How much maturing can you really do in the course of a week? Even if you spent every moment of this so called "week" with someone whom you just met, and bonded very deeply, you haven't had enough time to get to completely know and love them. I wouldn't even say that I truly know everything about some of my closest friends, and I've known some of them since pre-school.

Anonymous said...

I don't think that they are very mature. They are both so young and they risk all of their other relationships to be together and yet they both end up dying. This whole love fest takes place in a week tops so they never really thought things through they just went with " what their hearts were telling them". That is not mature because they didn't think or care about anyone but them selves.

Anonymous said...

I don't think that they are very mature. They are both so young and they risk all of their other relationships to be together and yet they both end up dying. This whole love fest takes place in a week tops so they never really thought things through they just went with " what their hearts were telling them". That is not mature because they didn't think or care about anyone but them selves.

Anonymous said...

Even though Romeo and Juliet married at a very young age, their love grew stronger and stronger throughout their marriage. Because their parents were antipathy towards each other since a long time and they had to mature. So they learned that love is stronger than hate. After Romeo killed Tybalt, Juliet was able to forgive him throughout the strong love she had for him, which is a sign that she matured. Real love in a relationship also supports each other and endures pain together.

Anonymous said...

Romeo and Juliet mature a lot through out the play but not in their overall life's. Juliet matures more than Romeo because at the beginning of the play she doesn't even want to think about getting married but by the end she is so in love that she is willing to die for romeo. Romeo matures by becoming a man and stepping up to try and win Juliet heart and eventually died for her.

Anonymous said...

I don't believe that Romeo's and Juliet's story let alone what they call their relationship can be called love. If their story is what true love is considered to be called then I want no part in it. All of there actions through the book are based off of personal want. Sure you should always make decisions that make you a better person but that was not what Juliet and Romeo are looking for after making their stupid decisions only thinking about how much better there "relationship"can get. When they realized all the trouble and heartache they are causing other people and lets not forget to mention all the deaths their love has caused including the lives of the main "lovers" in this story. If you want to be considered mature you have sometimes have to sacrifice personal want for the better of the situation. The characters let alone the love was immature which was why it ended so horridly.

Anonymous said...

I don't believe that Romeo's and Juliet's story let alone what they call their relationship can be called love. If their story is what true love is considered to be called then I want no part in it. All of there actions through the book are based off of personal want. Sure you should always make decisions that make you a better person but that was not what Juliet and Romeo are looking for after making their stupid decisions only thinking about how much better there "relationship"can get. When they realized all the trouble and heartache they are causing other people and lets not forget to mention all the deaths their love has caused including the lives of the main "lovers" in this story. If you want to be considered mature you have sometimes have to sacrifice personal want for the better of the situation. The characters let alone the love was immature which was why it ended so horridly.

Anonymous said...

In the beginning of the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo was in love with another girl. It seemed as if he was just into girls bodies and doing things with them, but once he met Juliet he was ready to commit, disobey his parents and spend the rest of his life with Juliet. However, I believe they lost maturity for deciding to rush into marriage before knowing each other. They were mature in the beginning and some of the middle. They kept gaining and losing maturity.