Is Romeo and Juliet the great love story ever

While Romeo and Juliet has a very clear inability to capture mature love, it does do a wonderful job of displaying teenage.. love, the kind of love that we see when a hormone raged boy shoots himself and/or his girlfriend, though I detest attaching the word love to that disgusting display and it leaves a bad taste in the back of my throat to do so. Before all my dear readers who scream in favor of this centuries old play threaten me and send letters telling me to die, hear me out. It is my opinion that this “romance” they share becomes quite evident when you stop even a moment and think about their actions.

I’d hope you’d all agree that the pair are quite impulsive, both jumping to things quickly. Again, you’re not allowed to jump down my throat just yet, dear reader. You can scream your reasoning behind their erratic behavior at me in a moment, but for the time being I do hold the floor. The first thing to look at is Romeo’s behavior in the very beginning of the play, when he was in “love” with dear Rosaline, which was made into quite the big deal at the start of the play, where he has long spiel after long spiel of how they just don’t understand. To cheer him up, Benvolio convinces him to go to the Capulet party, mainly because he knew what was really up.

It’s here that he of course see’s Juliet. Keep in mind, they don’t have much of a real, meaningful conversation. What they do say basically amounts to “Well, you’re certainly attractive. Let me poetry at you and into your pants.”

That was inappropriate, many apologies.

As said before, he falls in “love” with her based off the fact that she’s quite pretty. This again is impulsive, no hesitation put into forgetting the girl he was previously so madly in love with. This i...

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...ower while making decisions and thus make poorer ones, though I’m not sure of the truthfulness of this.

The point is that no, this is not love, but like many present teenagers they made a mistake. But they’re also like the unfortunate stories we can still hear today, a boy shooting his girlfriend because she didn’t want to go to prom. A boy killing himself over rejection. They’re the extreme and a extreme avoidable if something had been done, such as the friar not encouraging their behavior by going along with it. The death of six people, some of which who were more innocent than the others, lies on their stone cold shoulders, but also the friars. This is not a love story to me, it is a tragedy. One to be viewed as a warning, one we should probably listen to more often so one won’t have to hear another story of a teen killing the one they claimed to love so much.