Today I get to go and watch Romeo and Juliet with my grade. I am excited for being able to leave school even more so for the event being of the dramatic genre. However, R&J definitely isn't at the top of my list. Lots of people see it as a tragic love story, but it just didn't measure up to my expectations. I guess it's because it doesn't have crazy costuming and nobody sings show tunes...
I don't see it as real love (even if they do speak in iambic pentameter). First of all the whole reason that Romeo left Rosaline was because she wouldn't "take from his pot of gold"(....ew gross i don't even want to go there...) Not to mention the nasty perverted jokes about thrusting the maidens and falling on our back when you are older.
I was really expecting this insanely epic love story about these lovers who were of two separate feuding houses who met and TALKED for hours and fell in love with each others personalities. Instead it was a story about two people that met at a party, started making out, got married soon afterwards, and then killed themselves. Shakespeare you could have done better...
