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Romeo and Juliet a love story ?, Sure.....

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? ", a well-known sentence that we have all heard of, it is a flawlessly crafted tragedy that is more commonly known as the greatest love story, thanks to literature and all the hype that it gets. So if you aren't familiar with Romeo and Juliet, let me give a brief detail before we start. So, this story we are talking about happens to be one of William Shakespeare's most loved and in my opinion most misunderstood tragedies ever, which of course includes mysterious murders, and misunderstanding which of course again leads to killing people and the disaster continues and at the center of it all is Juliet who is Shakespeare's most popular character arcs but full disclosure up top this story does include suicide (warning ⚠️, you are going to read anyway so… ).



Imagine being a girl who is just thirteen years old, back in the old days when they thought that it was the right age to get a girl married, and your father chooses an individual who is twice your age and that's just ugh, I could never imagine. Then one night at this party you meet this boy who is about your age and woah the butterflies are running in your stomach, but he turns out to be the son of your family's mortal enemy.


Okay, this is sort of boring so let' bring my narrator' voice *clears throat*, *in a deep voice*, two altruist families in Verona the Montagues and also the Capulets are at war for years (Why? Haha Reasons that's why ), being done with their constant brawls the native patrician vows to execute the following person who picks a fight. Currently, we have a tendency to introduce the opposite widespread character and the main protagonist of this tale, Romeo, the one and only heir of the Montagues, who apparently has responded to a reasonably unhealthy chop up, what happens next? His friends attempt to cheer him up and what do they are doing? They make jokes that are dirty and pull him up to a celebration at the capulets, in the meantime, Juliet's father meets Count Paris who desires to marry the capulet's only female offspring Juliet, and how’s she currently? unaffected… once they tell her the news, but then she could be a submissive female offspring, therefore she accepts her fate. However that night at the masked ball these crazy teenagers create covert eye contact and instantly fall deeply into masked love, on the other hand, she was au fait that Romeo her new love was the son of the family's mortal enemies.

So what will she do? Head to the balcony at the evening and laments that she has fallen in love with Romeo. Meanwhile, our Romeo has god knows how snuck back to the Capulet estate to see Juliet once more and overhears her and then they confess their love for each other, and then Juliet makes him promise to marry her the very next day. Sincere to his word Romeo visits his friend Friar Lawrence who hopes that serving to Romeo can finish the family war. The nurse informs Juliet and she sneaks out and marries Romeo. At this point, our newly married Romeo is being confronted by Tybalt an angry Capulet kinsman, Romeo tries to create peace with him however his friend Mercutio challenges Tybalt instead. They all fight and Tybalt advances and kills Mercutio. Now, Romeo is firing up in rage so, he kills Tybalt for killing his friend. Hearing the news the Capulet demands justice and sentences Romeo to death and/or banishment. In spite of everything this news reaches Juliet, she is now hopeless till her nurse and Friar Lawrence arrange a secret nighttime meeting with Romeo before the banishment. So, that they have their night together and Romeo leaves in the morning. Now, Juliet's parents come in with 'great news', that she needs to marry Count Pairs in the next few days, however, Juliet being in love with Romeo refuses, but her father threatens her.


This once, Juliet recognizes that she must make her own selections and take the matter in hand. Thus she goes to Friar and asks for help so, he suggests she to faux her own death. So, as to flee her family and be a part of Romeo in exile, and offers her a potion that might make her sleep and appear super dead. Juliet takes it home and Lawrence sends a messenger to get the plan to Romeo and Juliet drinks the potion and falls into a deep sleep, and once the nurse finds Juliet dead, the Capulet goes into mourning. While this was happening Lawrence's plan goes utterly downhill, why you'll ask? Because our dear messenger got delayed and couldn't get the plan to Romeo and now he thinks Juliet is dead. Then, our protagonist buys real poison and goes to die next to Juliet, on the way he kills Count Pairs and goes to Juliet and kills himself dramatically. Now, our sleeping beauty wakes up and finds Romeo dead, and takes Romeo's dagger and kills herself.


Now I can conclude that maybe Romeo and Juliet is the ultimate story of love, however, has a lot of hate, because of her realization that her family doesn't care about her happiness and that makes her take her own decisions, because of which comes the pointless war between the Capulets and Montagues which once more is for um... Reasons, and destroys, and takes several lives. All they could do was build monuments of their loss, that again to me doesn't really sound like a love story, because both of them never really knew each other to really be infatuate or in love, it' simply the state of their situation they are in, and them assuming this is often higher than everything. However, once more, it' all my opinion. I'm just expecting a true romance/love (which includes certain seven humans but anyways). But this century has better laws and rules that I'm grateful forl.


"A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life."


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Eshal
Eshal
Dec 03, 2021

In love with this take of Romeo & Juliet, many (mostly those who've never read it) call it the greatest love-story ever, but knowing the finer details it just proves it's not as Great as it seems. I personally believe the greatest love story is yet to be witnessed.

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divyasekar167
Dec 03, 2021
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True, still waiting for it to enfold;)!

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Unknown member
Dec 03, 2021

I knew that there was something wrong with this story ahaha....

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divyasekar167
Dec 03, 2021
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;)

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