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Role Models In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Role Models in Romeo and Juliet Whether it is the 21st century or the 16th century, people need to be inspired by other people; they need role models. Role models can be anyone that demonstrates admirable qualities that people can look up to in order to better themselves and those around them. In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, he depicts good role modelling during the shakespearean era by creating characters with positive traits and motives. Shakespeare portrays positive role modelling through many characters such as Friar Laurence, Nurse and Prince. Friar Lawrence is a good role model and also a mentor to Romeo by advising Romeo to act with more deliberation, but also to have more restraint. The Nurse acts as a mother figure in …show more content…

She is showing her caring traits and trying to do anything to keep Juliet happy and keep the too lovers together. When the Nurse is going to get Romeo, she tells him “For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and / stand up. Why should you fall into so deep a moan?”(3.3.89-90). The Nurse is trying to tell that Juliet isn't feeling well and she needs him to be by her side as she lost her cousin Tybalt. After all the kind things that the Nurse did with Romeo and Juliet, the audience experiences the Nurse’s caring and motherly traits and how much of a role model she …show more content…

It all started due to the lack of role models surrounding them. Romeo and Juliet’s parents were extremely unsupportive and really poor examples of role models. The only good mentoring supplied to Romeo and Juliet was limited to three role models, Friar Laurence, Nurse and Prince. However, these role models deceive and betray Romeo and Juliet resulting in unpreventable suicides. Therefore, the lack of mentoring from parents and role models in Shakespeare play “Romeo and Juliet” are essentially the cause of the extremely tragic result of two young lovers’

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