Juliet is 13 years old at the time of the play, and Romeo is assumed to be about 16. What effect does the age of the main characters have on a modern audience?
Throughout the whole play Romeo and Juliet exhibit scenes about love and hate, although the passionate love that Romeo and Juliet show together over powers the hatred displayed within the play. Back in the day of Shakespeare it was proper to get married at the age of 13-16 showing maturity and love to the other half, almost 100% of the time being an arranged marriage. Though in the 21st century men and women don’t normally get married till mid twenties, as it is known to teenagers that you just don’t marry the first guy that you fall in love with, known as the high school sweet heart.
The display of passionate love is not so real in Romeo and Juliet; it is just like high school sweet hearts as know to today’s audience. Romeo seems to be disrespectful to females, wants what he says and always persuades Juliet into things she is not comfortable doing. On the other hand Juliet is an unexperienced, innocent female that may or may not be passionately in love with Romeo. Overall the couple of Romeo and Juliet show that they are not experienced together and are not truly in love.
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