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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A classic Shakespearean tragedy that seems totally pointless by the end. It is a hard read with very old dialogue. One that I'm glad I pushed my way through but will never touch again.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love this play. We studied it in Junior high, and then in high school I was part of a production of it.
I love the way that the lead characters, in their youthful innocence, are so passionate and so foolish. I don't know why that combination is so attractive, especially when their end is so gruesome, but it is. I think I will always love this play, and the many incarnations of it I have been exposed to.
I love the way that the lead characters, in their youthful innocence, are so passionate and so foolish. I don't know why that combination is so attractive, especially when their end is so gruesome, but it is. I think I will always love this play, and the many incarnations of it I have been exposed to.
dark
emotional
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This story is both wonderful and tragic. Famous for its beautiful prose and historical truths, I’m sure Shakespeare would be happy to know the star-crossed lovers’ story keeps being told. I knew what was going to happen on every page, of course, but reading it was still a lovely experience.
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
read this for like the third time because i’m taking a shakespeare class in college. i have beef with this play because one time when i was 14 a guy quoted a passage of this to me in the lunch room at school and embarrassed the living daylights out of me.
anyway juliet is literally just a girl. like yeah she fell in love after one kiss and you know what SAME. whatever.
anyway juliet is literally just a girl. like yeah she fell in love after one kiss and you know what SAME. whatever.
Did it for english lit. This is 100% not a love story. I will not take arguments.
I can't believe it took me this long to read Romeo & Juliet. That's because we read A Midsummer Night's Dream in 9th grade instead, which I think was probably for the best. So, R&J is one of the more readable of Shakespeare's plays and it has a lot of great lines. But it is basically one idiotic act after another. Especially basically anything that Romeo ever does, ever. He is a whiny emo kid, but not in an awesome way like Hamlet (who might have been the original emo prince, but was kind of badass in the way he went about it). Instead, he is a whiny emo kid in the I-Keep-Threatening-To-Kill-Myself-Whenever-The-Smallest-Thing-Goes-Wrong way. Way to be melodramatic, Romeo.
But, to prove that Shakespeare is indeed THE Bard, he did give us these immortal words, the best exchange in R&J:
ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON: I do bite my thumb, sir.
ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory.:]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
GREGORY [Aside to Sampson.:]: No.
SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.
GREGORY: Do you quarrel, sir?
ABRAHAM: Quarrel sir! no, sir.
And you thought I was going to say the famous balcony scene, right? NO! This is way better.
But, to prove that Shakespeare is indeed THE Bard, he did give us these immortal words, the best exchange in R&J:
ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON: I do bite my thumb, sir.
ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory.:]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
GREGORY [Aside to Sampson.:]: No.
SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.
GREGORY: Do you quarrel, sir?
ABRAHAM: Quarrel sir! no, sir.
And you thought I was going to say the famous balcony scene, right? NO! This is way better.