During the adolescent phase of life, Hamlet and Rebel Without a Cause show examples of how both Hamlet and Jim are pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires. Both pieces help make the adolescent audience understand the dilemmas of personal conflict. Both pieces testify that one gets inside the adolescent's brain as the adolescent feels a struggle with himself due to a conflict, especially when parents try to help. Throughout the film and text, it can be seen that the teenagers are hit hard by the dilemmas of conflict, which is only amplified by the parents' attempted guidance on the teenagers. The adolescent has only a certain understanding of what it means to be an adult because he has only a certain understanding of what it means to be an adult. Parents attempt to intervene, to attempt to help guide the adolescent through the internal conflict that leads to parent-adolescent conflict based on two different desires that are being led in two different directions. During the age of adolescence, both the adolescent and the parent feel misguided as conflicts arise between the two as the stages of adolescence increase in subsequent years. Adolescents often express the words "There is no point in talking to you: you don't understand me. You don't even know me (Apter, 2013)." The article from Psychology today.com talks about what happens between the parent and the offspring during the stages of adolescence. The article highlights valuable points of information as the audience examines the lives of Hamlet and Jim Stark and sees and thinks about how both teenagers feel when conflicts arise between parent and teenager (Apter, 2013). For example, the art...... middle of paper ......last of places to be in this life because on the one hand you crave the freedom and respect that comes from an equal among those who have thoughts and interesting ideas. On the other hand, you're upset about the new demands on your liability plate. Teens are now required to master much more difficult educational standards than they ever have before, and are expected to have a plan and be “well-rounded” children in order to get into college. There is a lot of pressure and stress on teenagers to do well and make families happy as families often expect teenagers to do more work to try and be very successful. Works Cited Apter, Terri. "Adolescents and parents in conflict". Psychology today. Sussex Publishers, 2013. Web.08 November 2013.M, Angelica. "The internal conflict". Teen ink. Np, nd Web. 08 November. 2013.