2006-06-22 15:20:43 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I know it's fiction Bob and I am calm hollistergirl, but really, what is romantic about suicide?
2006-06-22 15:27:19 · update #1
I think the way that society has portrayed it is completely stupid. Romeo and Juliet were young kids but everyone seems to think that they were grown.
2006-06-22 15:22:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I cannot believe I am even reading this question. You cannot appreciate a good literary work? "Romeo and Juliet" is a tragedy. It is supposed to be that way. That is how Shakespeare intended it to be. Open up your mind to the fact that things were not always as they are. Allow yourself to be educated. You might suprise yourself.
Also, about the whole idea that they were "just kids," In the time period that the story took place, teenagers married young and were parents young. That's the way it was all throughout history. So, by modern standards, they were "kids" by the standards of the time period they were in, they were really young adults.
ETA: To not have read the play or seen the movies, and to call them "suicide emos," is to pass judgement on something you know nothing about, therefore your opinion does not mean all that much.
2006-06-22 15:31:56 · answer #2 · answered by jannabanana 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
DO try to remember that Shakespere wrote Romeo and Juliet about a time when society was VERY different from the way things are now. Given the social norms during the time about which the play was written, they acted relatively rationally.
2006-06-22 15:26:36 · answer #3 · answered by fhornsr 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, I know it's just a story, but they were just kids who didn't even know what love was, so why were they willing to kill themselves over it? All that "story" does is make kids think a murder/ suicide pact is the most romantic thing they can do when their families object to them being together. So I agree with you.
2006-06-22 15:27:46 · answer #4 · answered by NannyMcPhee 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes! I totally agree! And it wasn't just their suicides that were completely stupid!
The stupid things:
* They met each other one night and got married the next day*
Riiiight... People call Romeo and Juliet the greatest love story of all time? There was no love involved! Just LUST.
* Romeo going "I am fortune's fool!!!!!!" after he kills Tybalt*
God made you kill Tybalt? Puh-lease.
* The suicides*
Just very idiotic and reckless in general.
2006-06-22 15:43:17 · answer #5 · answered by etceteras 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I never read the books or seen any of the plays of them, but from whut ive heard, they were suicidal emos
2006-06-22 15:25:32 · answer #6 · answered by A Cherry Sno Cone 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The timeless tale of two star-crossed lovers doomed for love because their familes were complete rivals? Are you kidding? They had a love at first sight, whirl wind romance that went up in flames b/c of their families hatred of each other. The story will always be the tragdey that others are pitted against, b/c you can't get more screwed than that.
2006-06-22 15:25:09 · answer #7 · answered by AutumnGirl 2 · 5⤊ 3⤋
um yeah. Go to mom and dad. Talk it out/Hug it out. Don't kill yourself. OK maybe getting married that young a little extreme but just don't die over somebody. That's just dumb.
2006-06-22 15:25:26 · answer #8 · answered by Emily N 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, they were a model of innocence under religious and statist oppression.
2006-06-22 15:25:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I do, sorry Romeo but I'm not killing myself for anyone.
2006-06-22 15:25:25 · answer #10 · answered by Jahnaya 2 · 8⤊ 0⤋