I just had a discussion with a friend about my thoughts on Romeo and Juliet (I love it), but I wanna know what other people think about Romeo and Juliet.
I don't love it because it's a "romantic" story, I love it because the story is the most unromantic story ever on the planet, but I'll get into that some other time. I wanna hear what your guys' thoughts on the work is.
Like a lot of Shakespeare, pretty fucking good. Especially the way the whole world is introduced in the first scene.
Romeo x Mercutio all the way.
To over dramatic, especially when you consider they are 14-15 years old.
Quote from: crabclock;1902755To over dramatic, especially when you consider they are 14-15 years old.
At that time, 12 year olds were getting married, sooooo
Tybalt was a doche and had it coming
Quote from: MightyBooshClock;1902756At that time, 12 year olds were getting married, sooooo
Average age of marriage during that time was mid-late twenties, actually. That fact suggests that one of the underlying themes of the play might be "lol kids are pretty dumb sometimes."
Quote from: crabclock;1902755To over dramatic, especially when you consider they are 14-15 years old.
I think 14-15 year olds are some of the most dramatic people on the planet
Quote from: SatelliteClock;1902761I think 14-15 year olds are some of the most dramatic people on the planet
And that is really the reason I see the play as just teenagers being dramatic, and not that great.
I don't really know what to think. It doesn't seem to have an important message. Honestly I think it was just made to make the audience think they saw something profound by including all these ridiculous emotions. It probably was profound compared to most playwrights at the time.
Quote from: Insomnia;1902754Romeo x Mercutio all the way.
Seriously. Juliet was a dumb hoe, Mercutio is an awesome motherfucker.
Quote from: crabclock;1902767And that is really the reason I see the play as just teenagers being dramatic, and not that great.
Quote from: Buttplug;1902786I don't really know what to think. It doesn't seem to have an important message. Honestly I think it was just made to make the audience think they saw something profound by including all these ridiculous emotions. It probably was profound compared to most playwrights at the time.
must....resist...nerdrage....,
but seriously the point of any piece of art isn't to give a "message", those are aesop fables. It's a
story, and it's about love, passion, control, non-logic, power, and other really strong themes. It's a story about two families that illogically hate each other and whose children illogically love each other, and the wonderful chaos that results from it.
Two teenagers fall into forbidden love who, over a crash course of ridiculously unfortunate and unforeseen events, end up killing themselves over each other. The rise and fall of their love- and ultimately their lives- was caused by a gust of passion that enveloped them over the course of about a week.
That's a pretty extreme case of... teenage angst.