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I interpreted this play as a story about a forbidden love that both families disagreed on, "My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy," but not listening they still got married behind their backs. I also interpreted this as two very different people falling in love, and it would almost seem impossible to fall in love but they still did. Another way i interpreted this is Romeo and Juliet had to literally fight there way to love and get to each other. People would just keep pushing them down and they would just keep getting back up, but finally they got beaten up so bad that they both died together. Romeo says, "...O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." And Juliet says, "...This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die."
The theme of this play is similar today in many different ways. One example is two people love each other and ask for permission to get married, but both of their parents don't give permission because they don't like who their son/daughter wants to get married to. Even though both of their parents said no, they still get married behind their backs. Then one day one of their parents forbid them from seeing each other ever again, and that son or daughter finds the only solution to ever get to see their love again is in eternal life; so they both commit suicide because of their complicated love. Another example of a theme today of "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" is a white loving a black or vise-versa in the descrimination era. If it was forbidden to drink out of the same drinking fountains as a different skin color than it was definetly forbidden to love a different skin color. So if somebody actually did love a different skin color it was probably to a standard of breaking the law during that time; just like it was hard for Romeo and Juliet to love each other.
With a few acceptions, besides the way we dress and communicate Romeo and Juliets society is pretty similar to ours today. One similarity that we have is the way we disobey our parents (or our last names) just so we can love and get married to somebody, "...Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet." Another similarity is that we also get into fights from bullying or teasing one another, "Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives. That I mean to make bold withhal, and, as you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears?..." We go to extremes for our love, just like Romeo and Juliet did. One final example is that we also fight to the death in war or battles. Although there are a lot of similarities there are also little differences. One example of a difference is that we don't get married to someone right after we fall in love with them. We also do not get married at the age of 13 or 14, we normally wait untill the age of 26 or higher. Another difference is that we don't get into sword fights anymore, except for fencing.
The theme of this play is similar today in many different ways. One example is two people love each other and ask for permission to get married, but both of their parents don't give permission because they don't like who their son/daughter wants to get married to. Even though both of their parents said no, they still get married behind their backs. Then one day one of their parents forbid them from seeing each other ever again, and that son or daughter finds the only solution to ever get to see their love again is in eternal life; so they both commit suicide because of their complicated love. Another example of a theme today of "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" is a white loving a black or vise-versa in the descrimination era. If it was forbidden to drink out of the same drinking fountains as a different skin color than it was definetly forbidden to love a different skin color. So if somebody actually did love a different skin color it was probably to a standard of breaking the law during that time; just like it was hard for Romeo and Juliet to love each other.
With a few acceptions, besides the way we dress and communicate Romeo and Juliets society is pretty similar to ours today. One similarity that we have is the way we disobey our parents (or our last names) just so we can love and get married to somebody, "...Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet." Another similarity is that we also get into fights from bullying or teasing one another, "Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives. That I mean to make bold withhal, and, as you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears?..." We go to extremes for our love, just like Romeo and Juliet did. One final example is that we also fight to the death in war or battles. Although there are a lot of similarities there are also little differences. One example of a difference is that we don't get married to someone right after we fall in love with them. We also do not get married at the age of 13 or 14, we normally wait untill the age of 26 or higher. Another difference is that we don't get into sword fights anymore, except for fencing.
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There are plenty of things that we can learn from this play. I learned that if your really truly love somebody you will do anything for them, even commit suicide just to be with them in eternal life. I also learned that it's good to go to a priest for advice, like Juliet did when she didn't know what to do about marrying Paris. Another thing that I learned from this tragedy is that you don't always have to follow your families ways. For example Romeo and Juliet's families were enemies, but Romeo and Juliet didn't care. They still got married and loved each other. I can use what I learned in real life. If I have a problem, I know that I can go talk to the priest and he will give me an honest answer, no matter how bad the problem is. I can also used what I learned by if my family does something that I don't agree on I don't have to do it. For example if my family goes to a different religion that I don't want to go to, then I won't go to the other religion; I will go to my own religion.