Romeo and Juliet?? QUESTION?

Question

all we have read in school is the first scene...our teacher was talking to us about it and saying how some parts of it is sexual...like at the beginning when those two men r fighting and saying about taking the heads of girls...my teacher said that those guys wanted to take those girls virginity...also when it says about pulling his knife out and it was naked....our english teacher said that we should know what that meant..and he demonstrated wish his hands as if he was pulling out a sword from a case...........

.....know is that how it really is?? is it really dirty like that??


someone explain please

Answer 1

Titillation, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Yea, Shakespear's plays are full of double-entendre, that was more obvious to the theater-goers of his day than to modern high school students.

If you know what the old fangled terms mean, and a bit about Elizabethan slang, some of Shakespear's plays are quite bawdy.

Answer 2

Well, Romeo and Juliette wasn't meant to be "dirty" it was meant to be romantic. Back in the day, they could only say so much without being completely offensive so they invented creative ways to express thoughts on those issues. Understand that then, the most important thing to a family was to marry into an equally impressive family and breed impressive children. Sex was not regarded publicly as recreational, it was more of a man's duty to his family legacy. A man's uh....parts were kind of a weapon so to speak. Because his genetics were a weapon that would make his family line stronger. It was a metaphor. Hope that helps! Good luck!

Answer 3

It's really not like that. "Naked" also means uncovered, so the knife was just there. Taking the heads of girls means to take them. He was pulling a sword out of its sheath or the case that holds it on the side. People who take Shakespeare like that need help. It can be interpreted in different ways, but a dirty mind will read Shakespeare like that.

Answer 4

Romeo & Juliet contains a great deal of symbolism, and some of the insults are really funny once you understand what they are - "I bite my thumb at you" is an example! Try the CliffNotes website:
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-165.html
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Answer 5

I think so... Sampson says after he fights the Capulet men, he will "be civil" to the women, and cut off their heads. Gregory asks if by heads, Sampson means the women's maidenheads (their virginity). Sampson replies, saying either their heads, or their maidenheads, and tells Gregory to take it in whatever sense he wishes.

I hope that is of some help to you. Just ask if you need more clarification.

Answer 6

wow that's interesting. i never knew that. I suppose it can have some true to it, seeing that shakespeare was a writer and he wrote poems which also have messages that are hard to recognize. =]