Romeo And Juliet The Best Love Story Essay

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Romeo and Juliet the best love story, right? Wrong! This people are nothing more than a tragedy, a very well written but nothing more than a tragedy. Teens walk around talking about how they want to be “Romeo and Juliet,” or how beautiful there love is. They knew each other just a few days, never even had a good conversation. They both were in love with the idea of one another and here are some ways to see it as what it is a tragedy. One the fight that was started in the first scene, two the death all throw it and last but not least, there death. Yes they die at the end. They kill their self over someone they saw at a party. Would you kill yourself over someone you were crushing on? Mostly, hopefully not, cause life is perishes and this is …show more content…

Though love is in it, and true words and actions of love is deep in this. There is no true love in here, beside just the idea of what love could be for them. They knew each other four days. Four days, in that time they meet at a party, fell in love, got married in secret, Romeo getting kick out of town for (killing Juliet’s cousin), Juliet wants to kill herself, fakes her death with poison (provided by the so helpful fryer), Romeo kills himself because he thinks that his love is dead, and Juliet does the same when she wakes up from the “poison.” Four days all this happens, and yes some of it is beautiful, but let’s break this down a little bit more. They are both young, so they love so fast and heart break is horrible. They don’t know how to handle it, like all other teens do. Think back to a love you thought was going to be together forever, when you were a teen, aren’t you so glad it didn’t last. This is best understood as “Juliet 's allusion to the Phaeton myth, just as the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet begins to unfold in earnest, is an irony often noted. Less noted, if at all, is the fact that Juliet 's allusion does not merely describe Romeo 's fall from grace or her suicide with him in the Capulet tomb; but perhaps of greater interest, it describes Juliet 's own Phaetonlike fall from an empyrean--a state of being--where all once seemed constant and completely understood. When Juliet learns of …show more content…

Then you notice that Juliet doesn’t even know that he is their while she speaking her heart. So if you truly sit down and think about it, it’s kind of creepy, Romeo is spying on her. This is also all about Juliet and her trying to find her and become who she is and not who her family wants her to be. This is also best said by “Mansour, Wisam he Taming of Romeo in Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET Explicator p1”“Scene 2.2, known as the balcony scene, illuminates Juliet’s depth of personality and accentuates her struggle for selfhood. In this scene Juliet is conventionally perceived as happily and helplessly yielding to the tumults of juvenile love.1Contrary to all conventional assumptions that see Juliet as Romeo’s passive beloved, I believe Juliet demonstrates her independence and masculine mind-set through her words and deeds. Shakespeare makes this clearly evident through falconry imagery that reaches its zenith in this scene where he traces parallels, on the one hand, between Romeo and domesticated falcons (generally females) and, on the other hand, between the way Juliet handles Romeo and the techniques falconers (generally males) employ to train their falcons.2Here, the playwright inverts the gender roles, making Juliet engage in behavior normally exclusive to men.” This helps point out that there most loving scene is more for Juliet’s

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