In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a world of violence and generational conflict in which two young people fall in love and die because of that love. The story is rather extraordinary in that the normal problems faced by young lovers are here so very large. It is not simply that the families of Romeo and Juliet disapprove of the lover's affection for each other; rather, the Montagues and the Capulets are on opposite sides in a blood feud and are trying to kill each other on the streets of Verona. Every time a member of one of the two families dies in the fight, his relatives demand the blood of his killer. Because of the feud, if Romeo is discovered with Juliet by her family, he will be killed. Once Romeo is banished, the only way that Juliet can avoid being married to someone else is to take a potion that apparently kills her, so that she is buried with the bodies of her slain relatives. In this violent, death-filled world, the movement of the story from love at first sight to the union of the lovers in death seems almost inevitable.
My Thoughts:
I love William Shakespeare ever since i was a kid i actually enjoyed watching the movie Romeo and Juliet, I'm not going to specify which merely because I have seen A LOT of them. I re-read the book today and i just figured you know what why not I will tell you what i think about this tragedy. Young naive love, teenage suicides and arguments that go so far back that nobody even knows why they are fighting. This was emotional, and loving, romantic and old fashioned which considering the year it was first published it will most certainly be old fashioned and historical. I do believe that this is required reading for high school, and it's great for all ages deciphering old English is always fun,if that's only me then, I highly recommend sparknotes they have helped me understand so many awesome old English books including this one
And as for a little trivia I found out recently Romeo and Juliet IS a TRUE STORY so guess what it just got way more dramatically interesting.
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