After finishing the play, I can now appreciate Shakespeare for myself. I really liked the play overall. I loved the language and the poetic flow of the words, even though sometimes it was hard to understand. I’m happy with how it ended, as the two can finally find peace and be together forever. Their love is truly able to be eternal, and for that reason, I don’t find it to be too much of a tragedy, as they did end up together.
When Romeo is about to kill himself after seeing Juliet “dead”, he says, “For fear of that I will stay with thee/And never from this palace of dim night/Depart again. Here, here I will remain” I think that this quote is great and shows the devotion that Romeo has for Juliet. After finishing the play, I believe more strongly in love at first sight, as Romeo and Juliet were good examples of it, and I have seen and read stories of people that also feel this way in real life. When it comes to the question of who killed Romeo and Juliet, I think that in the end, it was not society around them. They were their own killers, literally and metaphorically. Of course the hostile atmosphere between the two families didn’t help, but they acted so rashly and without thinking throughout the play, if they had taken time to think rationally, they would have been able to make things work without them both dying. Helen Fisher would talk about love making the brain do irrational things, and this play definitely makes that idea true. The brain will do anything to continue to have the dopamine released, so things aren’t done as rationally. And Romeo certainly acted rather irrationally, as he said, “Here’s to my love. O true apothecary,/Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” Romeo kills himself for love at the age of 18, when he had so much more to do in his life. Here’s an interesting article I found when I was reading online comparing Romeo and Juliet to a popular modern day movie, Twilight. I have read the book and agree that there is a lot in common. http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieVann/2009/04/deemed_the_new_modern_day.html
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