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Romeo And Juliet Dialectical Journal

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Imagine if you were walking down the aisle on your wedding day which is meant to be the best day ever, but the person at the end is a stranger. How would you like if the day you have been waiting all your life is just practically handed to you and isn’t even what you wanted or who you wanted to be with. Well, this is actually how some people’s lives happen for them. Such as they have no say in who they marry because their parents are in control of it all. In Romeo and Juliet this is the same situation that Juliet and Paris went through in the story. Like how Juliet's parents wanted her to marry Paris at the age of fourteen. Juliet's family was for arranging marriage since they were arranged when they got married, but on the other hand Juliet was very against the whole idea of marrying at fourteen, especially since she was very in love with Romeo even though their two families hated each other. This caused a lot of problems with Juliet’s family and that she would have to …show more content…

This is a big deal when things are arranged for people even though some people don’t see it. For example, Tim Arango stated, “I tried to kill myself, she said. I did not want to get married. I was forced to get engaged” (Arango). This is showing how the amount of stress put on people can have severe endings leading to death. In like manner Arango also stated that, “Officials are alarmed by what they described as a worsening epidemic of suicides, particularly among young women tormented by being forced to marry to young, to someone they do not love”. So even though some people do realize the amount of stress put on people it is still necessary that everyone needs to realize what could happen if you force something to happen when it’s not meant to be. It’s clear now that if you are doing this to someone that you could have more severe things happen that you need to keep in

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