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Teenage Brains In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet act in irrational ways because, of their developing teenager brains. Both Romeo and Juliet love pursued their action in multiple ways. They are like this because, between the ages thirteen though eighteen adolescences is at its peak. Adolescence is when a young person develops from a child to an adult. I believe that there developing brains make them act in unreasonable ways; they are at the peak of adolescence. Also their parents did not give them the helping hand they needed.
As William Shakespeare puts it in The Winter’s Tale wishes, “youth would sleep out of rest; for there is nothing in the in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting”. He is illustrating

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