The factors that
contribute to teen
behavior include
heredity, upbringing,
and brain changes.
Tybalt is volatile and
quick to fight because he
has been brought up in a
feuding family.
When Lord Capulet admonishes Tybalt to not
disturb the party, Tybalt complies, muttering,
“Patience perforce with willful choler meeting/
Makes my flesh tremble in their different
greeting” and then vowing, “I will withdraw, but
this intrusion shall/ Now seeming sweet, convert
to bitterest gall” (1.5.87-90).
Parents should
consider the
development of their
teen children’s brains
as they try to
understand how to
relate to them.
Lord Capulet seems
bewildered as to how he
should relate to his son.
He relies on his nephew
to communicate to his
son instead of trying to
start a new
conversation.
Lord Montague leaves matters in Benvolio’s
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