Can Someone Write Me A Sonnet About The Feud Between The Capulets And The Montages 14 Lines And 10

If Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy then, in my opinion, Romeo is the tragic hero. All tragic heros have a tragic flaw, and Romeo's is summed up by the advice that Friar Lawrence gives him (and which he ignores):"Wisely and slow; they stumble who run fast."Essentially, Romeo and Juliet teaches us not to make rash decisions based on passion, but to be patient and rational. Think of all the different plot points and characters that hammer that message home (*Spoiler Alert*):Romeo risks his life to see Juliet moments after meeting her at a party ("If they find thee they will kill thee"). Bear in mind that he was lovesick about a different girl, Rosaline, that very morning.Juliet INSISTS that he agree to marry her the next morning, to prove he's serious about her.Tybalt MUST fight Romeo because he's angry that Romeo came to his party uninvited. This results in Tybalt's death.Mercutio MUST provoke Tybalt into a brawl - at first because he thinks it's funny and later because he's annoyed with Romeo's cowardice. This results in Mercutio's death.Romeo MUST avenge his best friend's death at the hands of Tybalt, despite knowing the consequences. This results in his permanent banishment from Verona.Juliet threatens to commit suicide ("I long to die") unless Friar Lawrence has a plan to get her out of marrying Paris.She only does this because her Father has given her an impossible ultimatum: marry Paris or I'll disown you.Romeo MUST kill himself because he believes Juliet is dead, without thinking to consult his only true confidante (Lawrence). This results in his death.So all of the major plot points hinge on acts of passion. The backdrop to all of this is, of course, the equally irrational and passion based "ancient grudge" between the Montagues and Capulets, which creates a world where illogical emotional responses are the culture. Note that we have no idea what fuels this hatred at any point in the play.In the midst of all of this, Friar Lawrence is arguably the voice of reason, always seeking peaceful, logical solutions. I love the following line of his, which poetically states the mistake that all of the characters are making on repeat."These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume."

It teaches us that there is a difference between lust and love and that the overwhelming, pure love of teens is inevitably destroyed by the world, whether it is through family differences or learning more of each other and the world at large.  Ideal love cannot survive in our world.  I think that's the message.

When we read the book in eighth grade, half the girls in my class were in love with the story.They thought that the idea of “true love” trumping boundaries was wonderful, and that committing suicide because you thought your love was dead was beautiful and tragic.The rest of the class had a few varying opinions, ranging from “I don’t care” to a similar sort of “why is this considered classic” and “this isn’t romantic at all,” and then there were, like, two of us who thought we had seen somewhere that Romeo and Juliet was supposed to be a comedy, originally.…Is that a thing?Pretty sure. Somewhat. Nevermind.Most people that I know who enjoy Romeo and Juliet unironically still think it’s romantic. They’re aware of the points that it’s a 3-day courting-marriage-murder of a fiance-mutual suicide, and that it can be viewed as pedophilia or raging hormones, but they still think it’s romantic.“It’s the thought that counts,” one of them might say.Personally, I think a lot of that comes from conditioning. You’re told that Romeo and Juliet is a masterpiece, a true piece of tragic literature, a romantic story that has lasted centuries, so sure, you’re going to agree.Or people hear that, and they hear the opposing side, and they decide that it’s still romantic because, hey, they died for each other, they risked so much to be together.I mean, Romeo and Juliet is still just a story. It’s supposed to make a point, whatever that point be, and I think that a pretty large part of that point is the Capulets and Montagues realizing how utterly pointless their feud was. And key to that realization would be Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths. And I can see how people would enjoy that part of the story.Was the rest of the play something of a mess? Yeah. But I think that some of the play has its merit, and I can understand people who say they like it because at its base, it’s a story meant to entertain and (at least partially) teach.

First of all, we can't definitively answer that. We don't know why it was initially popular, or how it maintained that popularity. But that's a lame answer, so let's dig a little bit. The story isn't unique to Shakespeare. Like almost all of his plays, Shakespeare worked with existing material. You might think of him as the ultimate remake artist. If he were alive today, the guy could probably remake The Godfather, people would complain, then they would see it and realize it somehow was more brilliant than Coppola's. So it's not just the story. Many versions of it were told before, and many after.Second, the idea of a 17 year old and a 13 year old (actually, she's only 12) was not acceptable in Shakespeare's time. It was legal, barely, but very uncommon. Elizabethans who wanted to get married would have to get parental permission until they reached their majority, at age 21! And even then, if Juliet were 12 when she got married, she wouldn't co-habitate with Romeo for a few more years.So why did it endure? About half of Shakespeare's plays were printed in his lifetime, the rest came 7 years after he died. If they were printed in his life, it was usually only one time, sometimes twice. Romeo and Juliet was printed 3 times before he died, a fourth between his death and the printing of his works as a collection, then was included in that collection. It was popular.But why is it popular, now and then? Partly, it has a bit of everything: Comedy, Tragedy, at least 4 really great roles (I would say more, but I'm being conservative), fights, love scenes, music, dancing.... And perhaps most importantly of all - it's not even about the love story. Sure, it's very important in the play, but the play is about the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues, and how far it has to go before it ends. Love can spring out of pure hate, and the loss of children is enough to bury the hatchet (finally). And the families die along with the children. It's implied that the Capulets can't have any more children, and Lady Montague is dead, so there goes that family, and all the children of the houses are dead. The whole play is a head fake - you think you are getting one story, and in fact you get another, that still resonates and is relevant to us. Hattfields and McCoys. Israel and Palestine. Democrats and Republicans. Our world is still full of dualities that hate each other, that destroy each other, rather than patch up their differences.

Because love, real love, love worth dying for, doesn't happen at first sight.They met twice before they were married. Juliet was only 14 years old when she decided life wasn't worth living without her Romeo. Who she’d known for what, a week? Who she had spent a sum total of a few hours with, all told. Hours. Not days, years, just hours. Who she didn't know at all. Romeo didn't know a thing about her either, besides that she was beautiful. He was also in love with someone else when he met Juliet. That's why his friends dragged him to the Capulet’s party in the first place, to get him over a hopeless crush. Five minutes later, Juliet is the love of his life. Talk about an “inconstant moon” to swear by.I believe love comes from intimacy. From knowing someone to their core, and loving them for their faults and awfulness as well as their awesomeness. It grows from time together, memories shared. It's nurtured by being there for each other through hard times. They had none of that. Don't get me wrong, the story is very moving. Romantic, in that sense. I mean, the language is beautiful, of course. It's Shakespeare. Romeo is smooth, charming, and the play has some of the loveliest romantic speeches ever penned. But I hold that it's a tragedy, not a romance. They were victims of their hormones, who died before they had TIME to fall in love.