The 8th grade is reading Romeo and Juliet and it's amazing!!! This story is about a fued between two famlies, the Capulet's and the Montegue's. The youngest in the family, Romeo and Juliet meet eachother at a party at the Capulet household. Romeo and his friends sneak it. This story allows you to enter into this complicated love affair between two young teenagers. There are different points of view on love in this story. There is confusion about love, force of love, happy love, sad love and more. I think Shakespeare used these different ways to show that one word can go in a lot of different ways. Love is not always easy and this story shows that They hid what they felt for eachother but there was still complications. Was their love meant to be? These are the things that run through my head as I'm reading this play.
The director stated, "In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it is the story of youthful love in conflict with authority, only the language is that of Shakespeare's iambic pentameter." Right off the bat, even if you didnt know anything about the story, you know that this play is about a conflicted love affair. Once you read the play, you unravle the deep thought and feeling in the rest of the story. You begin to feel for the both main characters and you begin to pivture yourself in that situation.
I love this story, even though it's sometimes hard to understand fully, you feel what's happening. There are a lot of unexpected moments in the play but they all make sence once you really think of it. One thing I love about Shakespeare's writing is that he uses specific ways to express what's happening in the scene. It's amazing how he put all of this together and made such a beautiful story.
This play is overall just amazing and I would read it everynight over and over if I had the chance. The feeling I get when I think about the theme in the story, love, is unbelievable. I feel like I know Romeo and Juliet. I really only thought love would be full of joy and happiness, but reading this play, I found the many other ways to explore it. It can be complited and even be the cause of violence.
I LOVE THIS PLAY!!!
