Regulating behavior

Regulating behavior

Romeo and Juliet still speaks to us today because the primary idea behind the play is not so much love as it is regulating youthful behavior. Both noble families seek to control the sexual and romantic desires of their children by regulating their Proto sexual and sexual behavior.
Anxieties abound in this work by Shakespeare pure of invasion by the Muslim hordes drama competition among Italian city states, the meat into peace order and good government in Verona. But pride but primarily the anxiety is centered on the fear and the eventual reality that Romeo and Juliet will engage in sexual Congress without the consent of their families.

The regulation of sexual and romantic behavior Would remain a mainstay of culture and society until the 1900s. The idea that a human being had the right to choose their own romantic person was completely alien the 17th century society particularly among the upper classes. When we reconcile the fear of sexual and romantic indiscretion with the general upheaval of the reformation and the age of discovery We can better contextualize Romeo and Juliet as a work primarily about anxiety anxiety about a changing world anxiety about basic principle that young adults will have sex and achieve sexual maturity. And with that the obvious fear of unintended pregnancy and uncertainty about paternity. If young Adults were able to carry out their own sexual desires and do as they please unintended paternity was a very real possibility which would lead to uncertainty about paternity which would lead to further uncertainty about inheritance and the maintenance of the estate.
It is very easy to pigeonhole this particular work by Shakespeare into the category romance I believe we should understand it as a psychological drama centering around anxiety uncertaintyAnd general upset