So there's a famous quote by Shakespeare from "The Winter's Tale" where he describes adolescence as follows: "I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting." (Laughter) He then goes on to say, "Having said that, would any but these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty hunt in this weather?" (Laughter) So almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today, but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.
Ací tenim una coneguda cita de Shakespeare de "El conte d'hivern" on descriu l'adolescència de la següent manera: "Tant de bo no existís l'edat entre deu i vint-i-tres, o que la joventut dormís la resta; perquè no hi ha res pel mig excepte embarassar noies ofendre els ancians, robar, lluitar." (rialles) Més tard diu: "Desprès de dir açò, algú que no tingui un cervell reblanit d'entre dinou i vint-i-dos caçaria amb aquest temps?" (rialles) Així que 400 anys més tard, Shakespeare representava els adolescents d'una manera molt similar a la manera en que els representem avui, però avui intentem entendre el seu comportament observant els canvis ocults que es produeixen en els seus cervells.