Romeo And Juliet's Brain Development

Romeo and Juliet’s Actions Based on Their Brain Development The human brain is not the quickest maturing organ in the body. The brain has many parts to it, this complex organ matures at its own pace and so do the parts of the brain. Meaning all the parts of the brain mature at a different pace, some mature quicker and some mature slower. Therefore, a human, in the process of becoming an adult, have poor-decision making during their teenage years. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet’s actions are based on their adolescent brain development. Romeo and Juliet make impulsive decisions throughout the eo and Juliet make impulsive, emotion-based decisions. For instance, in Act 1, Scene 5 Romeo quickly starts to feel feelings
In 3.1, Romeo killed Tybalt because Tybalt killed Mercutio. Romeo was very impulsive when killing Tybalt, he did not think about the ramifications of killing Tybalt. This was also an emotion-based decision because ignoring the fact, Romeo was impulsive, he let his emotion of anger guide him into killing Tybalt. Once more this impulsive decision came from the frontal lobe which is immature and the emotional decision came from the limbic system which is fully developed. However, now there is another part of the brain that has to do with Romeo’s decision, it is the amygdala. The amygdala is in charge of emotion; however, it is in charge of two specific emotions which are aggression and fear. The amygdala is the one that reacts either aggressive or afraid when you are being challenged to a fight or other. In this case, Romeo reacted aggressive when he found out Mercutio died because of Tybalt. Tybalt did abhor Romeo and that is why he challenged Romeo to a duel, but Mercutio decides he would be intrepid so he decides he would be the one to fight Tybalt, Romeo did try to inhibit the fight, but does not succeed. Unfortunately, Tybalt wounds Mercutio under Romeo’s arm, Mercutio dies a few moments later. Romeo (Romeo repudiated the fact Tybalt killed Mercutio) then kills Tybalt to avenge the death of Mercutio. Romeo killing Tybalt for revenge shows that Romeo’s amygdala (the amygdala develops
Seeing Romeo and Juliet make impulsive decisions enables the audience (mainly teenagers) to learn from Romeo and Juliet’s mistakes. When Romeo or Juliet make an impulsive decision they end up hurting someone either themselves or another person. This model of what not to do informs the audience's when they in position of an young adult. Since everyone plays a young adult role at some point in their life. The audience might learn a lot from Romeo and Juliet's experience, the audience can learn that making impulsive decisions as a young adult is sometimes a natural, unpredictable thing as long as it doesn't go too far like Romeo did with his impulsiveness. Anyhow the audience may also learn from Romeo and Juliet actions that irrational-decision making can lead to negative long-term