Act 2, Scene 2: Two Blundering, Hormonal Fools in "Love"

Prompt E:

Romeo and Juliet are well known as "star-crossed lovers" in the literature world, as Shakespeare poetically dubbed the pair. But what makes their relationship any better than another? Romeo and Juliet are, after all, still barely into their teenage years when they decide to declare their love for one another and marry. Furthermore, Romeo's object of adoration changes in an instant from Rosaline to Juliet -- it isn't a stretch to think that the same would happen again. Romeo's capricious nature is moreover evidenced when he stabs his wife's cousin. His actions thus imply that he is little more than a hormonal teenager with poor anger management. On the other hand, Juliet talks to herself like she is a little girl, and disrespects her father and mother(albeit for possibly good reason at times). The pair of mentally unstable teenagers are then told "no", setting off a chain of events that ultimately spiral into the deaths of the "star-crossed lovers" and the treaty between the Montagues and Capulets. Thus Romeo and Juliet concerns two spoiled ingrates from rich families falling in love with each other at a party, then committing suicide over it less than a month later. No sane pair of people, no matter how smitten with each other, would do that so impulsively and quickly.