Romeo & Juliet?? any thoughts?

Question:I'm doing a report on it & im kinda stuck right now cuz i need other peoples opinions on the play.
so anyones take on it would be very helpful!
thanxs

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm doing a report on it & im kinda stuck right now cuz i need other peoples opinions on the play.
so anyones take on it would be very helpful!
thanxs

Personally it ticked me off... it showed the world nothing but how to throw the word love around and pretend someone youve just met is your everything. I do admire the passion put forth, them willing to die for eachother, but they werent in love, they were in lust. this is just like all of those shows on tv where girls line up to fall in "love" with some guy they know nothing about... thing like this promote lust and the world doesnt need more whores and broken families.

Romeo and Juliet is a great example of the expression that a bad Shakespeare is better than a good Tina Howe or Caryl Churchill. Not that Rand J is bad, but it's just not Shakespeare at the top of his form. It is the work of a playwright feeling his way and beginning to find his own voice. For the truly masterful Shakespeare plays we have to wait a few years (R and J is believed to have been written around 1595-1597) A few years later you get the four great tragedies -- Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello -- and plays termed "problematic" -- Tempest, Winter's Tale. Tempest is considered by many to be Shakespeare's last play, and Prospero's final monologue is Shakespeare's farewell to the thearical world.

Maybe you could write about the Romanticism that is typefied in the play. Romantic heroes and heroines often display a highly idealized extremely passionate love that is cut short by death of either one or both lovers. In what sense is the play the perfect representation of the passion and idealism of youth, perhaps a symbol for youth itself. Is there a symbolism behind the death of both lovers ? Could it signify that the purity and innonce of young love can never last and the only way that it could be eternalized is death. Is death then the ultimate realization of pure love because love transcends death ? And does love transcend death ? Think of Shakespeare's other works where similar thought about transcendence of love are expressed. For example in Sonnet #19: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade...' Another instance where the beauty and youth is contrasted with death, and death loses. Well, just some food for thought.