Someone stop me from picking twitter fights over Romeo and Juliet
Who are the six deaths? No, please tell me who are the six people who die because of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship and not because of the ongoing bloody feud resulting in a cycle of generational violence that’s been going on probably since much before they were born, and that their deaths put an end to? Please enlighten me. Go ahead. I’m waiting.
I want to know how two teens naively making some rash decisions in the face of the strong feelings of sweet young love (and yeah lust too, that’s natural and okay) are to blame for this carnage, and not the irrational hatred between these two houses, kept alive even though no one remembers how the ancient grudge started
I’m this close to going over every death in the play, in fact I think I have before. I’ll grant you that R&J themselves wouldn’t have committed suicide if they didn’t have their relationship AS WELL as the conflict (though I would still blame mostly the conflict) and maybe Paris (I admittedly don’t care about him).
Tybalt and Mercutio are on the feud unless you’re gonna blame Romeo for trying to stop a fight. Other people would have died instead since, you know, their death wouldn’t have buried their parents strife
The play opens with a street fight before they ever laid eyes on each other! The prince was already fed up with that kind of thing!
If people think this tragedy is a cautionary tale, why would they think it’s against love, as rash as it might be, and not against hatred?
Also, yes Juliet is 13, there’s zero evidence of Romeo’s age. Not a big deal but I keep seeing this repeated and I don’t know where people get that. “Signed everyone who actually read it” Fuck you! Get your facts straight!
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