I started reading Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and I had to read act 1, scene 1 twice to barely comprehend on what the chapter was about. The most difficult thing about reading Romeo and Juliet is the language. We're barely used to the language because we never use that kind of language. They might have in the old days, but now we're in the modern world, where everything is abbreviated or shortened. Meanwhile, Shakespeare wrote a tragic love story that we barely understand.
One of the main themes, as we all know, is love. This story is one of the most tragic love stories of all time. It's about 2 people who fall in love, but fate plays with their love, and they end up dying. And it all has to do with the hatred between the Montagues and the Capulets. At first Juliet Capulet was suppose to marry County Paris,a handsome guy that she barely knows, and spend the rest of her life with him. Well, that's what her mother, Lady Capulet says.
Lady Capulet has a different perspective on love. I think what love means to her, is that she thinks it's not important to establish a deep connection with the person that later on, will marry. I think, to her love is oh, here's this handsome guy, let's get married! I don't really think she knows what love really is. That's how her mother taught her, and now she's telling Juliet to do the same thing.
Meanwhile, Romeo himself will be in love with anyone who looks gorgeous, for example, Roseline, and not see the beauty within all that beauty on the outside. Until he sees Juliet. When he sees Juliet I think that's the point where he realize that Roseline will never love him the way he does for her. And the point when he realizes that his love for Roseline was never real. He thinks he loves her because of her beauty. I mean, I kind of see his point, because I would the same thing, too. I would fall in love with anyone who looks handsome, I mean wouldn't anyone?
And I don't think that he was really in love with Roseline. There is so many perspectives of love that is hard to keep track of. The bottom line is that many people have their definition of love, and no can actually define what love actually is, because it's physically impossible to do so. I think what William Shakespeare is trying to do is that there are different kinds of love, and all of them have different endings. I mean, some of them cane be what you dreamed of, and sometimes it could end in a tragedy, like these two star-crossed lovers.
There are so many questions unanswered, though. How did the Montagues and the Capulets hate each other in the first place anyway? And when Romeo met Juliet, they automatically fall in love, and the next day, they got married, and on the third day they killed themselves. How on earth did that happen all in three days? I figured it would be, at least, a week. Why did Shakespeare write it so quickly? and many, many more questions are left unanswered. What are your thoughts?
