What are your thoughts on Romeo and Juliet?

[Topcatyo]

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.

[AmberArachnidClock]

Like a lot of Shakespeare, pretty fucking good. Especially the way the whole world is introduced in the first scene.

[Insomnia]

Romeo x Mercutio all the way.

[DickTree]

To over dramatic, especially when you consider they are 14-15 years old.

[I1I1I1I1I1I1I11111I1I1I1IIIIIII1I1I1I1I11I]

To over dramatic, especially when you consider they are 14-15 years old.

At that time, 12 year olds were getting married, sooooo

[pop-tart]

Tybalt was a doche and had it coming

[Losperman]

At 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."

[AmberArachnidClock]

To 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

[DickTree]

I 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.

[buttplug]

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.

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

Romeo x Mercutio all the way.

Seriously. Juliet was a dumb hoe, Mercutio is an awesome motherfucker.

[AmberArachnidClock]

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.

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.

[Lump Clock]

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.