Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare is set during Elizabethan times .It explores how the thoughts and actions of young adults contributes to the ‘ancient grudge’ between the feuding families.
Sampson and Gregory, the servants of the Capulet act rebellious and self-absorbed as a result of anger towards the ‘dog[s] of the house of Montague’. The ordinary discussions of topics such as their ‘pretty piece[s] of flesh’ the exploitation of multiple women and outperforming each other foreshadows and sparks all the ‘profaner’ conflict in ‘fair Verona’. Romeo and Juliet also contribute to that as they convey similar attitudes as the servants. The fact that they are adolescents as well, gives them more of a reason to be compensated …show more content…
At the time of Rome’s ‘banishment’ because of him killing Paris leads him to go to Friar Laurence in order to not only get advice but to calm down however, the friar to do everything in his power and still be unable to ‘reverse a prince’s doom’, Romeo quickly becomes aggravated as to him ‘there is no world without Verona walls’. In the same way as Romeo, Juliet impatiently waiting for Romeo to come at night for him to ‘hood [her] unmanned blood’, then the nurse telling Juliet about Romeo about what he did to her cousin and that resulting in his ‘banishment’; Juliet reacted similarly to Romeo by wishing the Nurses tongue to be ‘blistered’. Another example of childish actions includes when Juliet could not get out of the marriage between her and County Paris and resorted to killing herself in order to “call [her] resolution wise’ meaning that she would rather die than to be unfaithful to Romeo. Adding to that reason, Romeo also contemplates suicide when he can’t be in Verona where ‘heaven is where Juliet lives’. All these unthought-of actions of Romeo and Juliet convey that when things or people don’t go their way, they make their ‘civil [lives]