Romeo + Juliet: in what way is their love not typical of adolescence?

Question

i'm sure a lotta people have read the book.... please help!

Answer 1

I don't know...-It SURE looks like young love to me... Oh maybe not so much in THESE days, of passing "hook-ups" & pay-as-you-go romances. But I've seen my share of "Romeos" AND "Juliets" in my day- and it's not as "atypical" as you might think! :) The old "Bard"- knew what he was writing about.

Answer 2

If you read the play, you will actually find that their love is very typical of teenage romances. Romeo and Juliet fall in love at first sight, at a party. Romeo had previously been in love with another Capulet woman, but quickly forgot about her as soon as he saw Juliet. The two meet secretly on Juliet's bedroom balcony. They decide to get married in secret, since their parents hate each other. However, Juliet's father surprises her the very next day with an engagement to another man. Times being what they were, Juliet couldn't say no to her father, and couldn't tell him about her marriage. Meanwhile, Juliet's cousin picks a fight with Romeo's friend Mercutio. The two boys get into a fight, Romeo tries to stop the fight, and Juliet's cousin kills Romeo's friend. Sad and angry at the death of his friend, Romeo kills Juliet's cousin. Romeo goes into hiding to escape the law. Meanwhile, he is so upset that he has killed one of Juliet's ffamily members, that he decides to kill himself. However, the guy who married Romeo and Juliet, talks him out of it. Romeo runs away to a place where the law can't arrest him. In the meantime, the friar talks Juliet into pretending she's dead, so that she can leave and go to Romeo. The plan goes well, but the friar's note, which tells Romeo what is going on, doesn't reach him in time, and Romeo thinks Juliet really has died. Romeo goes to Juliet's grave and kills himself. When Juliet wakes up, she finds that Romeo has killed himself. Since she can't live without him, she kills herself too. At the end of the play, everyone realizes that thier fighting is what caused the two kids to end so unhappily, and the parents decide to become friends. The end

Answer 3

If in adolescence, two people were in love and being kept apart because of their families, fake suicide would not be the course of action todays teens would take. Todays teens would sneak around for as long as possible and then when they get caught, the girl would seduce the boy into killing her parents for her and spend the rest of his life in prison.

Answer 4

They were willing to die for each other.
-When faced with death, most teenagers get the heck away from each other.