It compares to youth today because most of the same themes carry over into the modern society. People fall in love everyday, there are still families who dislike and argue over each other. Families who often argue teach their younger generation to dislike the other family causing them to altercate and kill each other out of spite and hatred, and people still make stupid choices in life. Hopefully we learn from the mistakes of others and do not repeat it. Unfortunately Romeo and Juliet shows the nasty side of human altercations.
They didn't!! Nobody even remembers who they are or write songs called Romeo and Juliet, or make movies about them, or based on them. That movie due to be released in 2013 with Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth--there is no such thing. That song by Taylor Swift? She never sung it. Gnomeo and Juliet? It was based on Milton's Paradise Lost.
It compares to youth today because most of the same themes carry over into the modern society.
People fall in love everyday, there are still who dislike and argue over each other. Families who often argue teach their younger generation to dislike the other family causing them to altercate and kill each other out of spite and hatred, and people still make stupid choices in life.
Hopefully we learn from the mistakes of others and do not repeat it. Unfortunately Romeo and Juliet shows the nasty side of human interaction.
Shakespeare's plays are relevant to everyone at some point. Some of the plays which relate especially to teens are:
1. Romeo and Juliet. Passions can run high when you are young. Like many young couples, Romeo and Juliet feel like it is "you and me against the world". Juliet in particular has to struggle with overbearing parents who make wrong assumptions about what she wants and what is making her unhappy. At the same time she realizes that the ethical standards of her parents and her surrogate mother, the nurse, are insufficient. Juliet has to find her own standards of conduct and act on them. You really see this happening when Juliet says "shall I speak ill of he who is my husband?"
2. Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. Being groomed to take over the family business can be a drag. Like many young people trapped in their parents' expectations, Hal rebels by associating with a group of totally undesirable people: theives, prostitutes, drunkards and layabouts. This sort of thing can drive parents to despair--it certainly does for Hal's father. But what the father does not see is that the son is learning from the experience how to be a better king than his father could ever hope to be.
3. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Somewhere between childhood where we are not interested in sex and adulthood where we settle in with a long-term partner there is a time when we experiment with different relationships. People's emotions and attractions for each other change as if by magic. It is easy to sympathize both with the young men whose passions have changed inexplicably and the young women who are befuddled by the changes in the men.
4. Much Ado About Nothing. Another Shakespeare play about relationships--this time about people who get caught up in a habit of fighting, which obscures their real attraction for each other. There is a lot for awkward young lovers to sympathize with here.
5. All's Well that Ends Well. Before you say, "Never heard of it!" hear me out. This is a play about a girl with a heavy crush on an impossible guy. She is daring and clever and sneaky and resourceful, however, and she gets him to marry her. His heart is not in it, and he runs off, and she has to be even more daring and clever and sneaky and resourceful to get him back. Looked at from one perspective it examines just what you can expect to get from manipulating people. From another perspective it examines the irresponsibility of the guy, Bertram, and what it takes to wake up to the reality of what is going on. There is a lot in this play to interest young people.
6. Merry Wives of Windsor. Not the main plot so much as the subplot, another vindication of the right of young people (in this case Anne Page) to choose their own lives.
The elements of the Romeo and Juliet story are timeless--the struggle between a younger generation and an older one, and the feeling that many young couples get that it is "you and me against the world". The perspective of the young which makes despair appear easy and suicide an option is also timeless.
One aspect of the story which can change its popularity is the downer ending. There is a part of our society at the present time which has a difficulty with tragedy and wants every story to end with everyone living happily ever after. The result is "remakes" of Romeo and Juliet where they do not die at all, and everyone is happy in the end. A similar approach was taken to King Lear in the 18th century, where it was felt that the death of the innocent Cordelia did not fit with their view of the proper way to end a play (i.e. the virtuous succeed and the guilty are destroyed) so they rewrote it with Cordelia surviving and marrying Kent.
Possibly the objective in wanting to change the ending is to prevent the young from being traumatized by the deaths of the hero and heroine. Indeed, there are many young people who have been carefully insulated from the concept of tragedy. Whether this will result in the twenty-first century being a time where artificially happy endings rule the day and the true Romeo and Juliet story is replaced by a sugary substitute, time will tell. However, the reality is that tragedy is a part of life, and has always been a part of literature for that reason, so Romeo and Juliet, like King Lear, will always come back in its original form.
Do teenagers still fall in love? Do teenagers still think their parents don't understand them? Do teenagers still commit suicide? Thought so.
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It can be modernized for the benefit of younger children and the story can be taught for education and poetry.
Today's teenagers do not fight with their parents, go to parties, fall in love, and want to have sex with each other. If they did, Romeo and Juliet would be very relevant to them.
Romeo and Juliet are wanting to rush and get married because they love each other. Teenagers today are about to express their love to someone without wanting to get married.
Juliet: "Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Since Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters and the play says Juliet is almost 14, Juliet is almost fourteen every single time the play is put on, including any performances there happen to be today. We don't know how old Romeo is, but however old he is, he's the same age as he has always been.
At the time he was living in Bishopsgate, just to the north of London.
Considering that Romeo and Juliet were both children of ruling classes, the chances of them having jobs in our modern setting is remote at best. The most likely occupations they would find themselves in would be a musician in Romeo's case, and in Juliet's, a philanthropist.
Romeo and Juliet are wanting to rush and get married because they love each other. Teenagers today are about to express their love to someone without wanting to get married.
Juliet: "Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Romeo and juliet are two main characters of the play "romeo and juliet" written by shakespeare.they both were great lovers who were made for each other and the examples of their love is today also cited by the people.
Since Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters and the play says Juliet is almost 14, Juliet is almost fourteen every single time the play is put on, including any performances there happen to be today. We don't know how old Romeo is, but however old he is, he's the same age as he has always been.
It compares to our modern day life because most of the themes carry over from the play to our lfe today in modern society. Millions of people fall in love with each other and their parents disagree with their desicions. Some even resort to death, suicide and abuse, most of these aspects are covered in Romeo and Juliet.
No. They were in Verona, Italy. If you go to Verona today there is a location that is said to be Juliet's house and balcony.
In life today . . . Do teenagers fall in love? Do teenagers disagree with and hide things from their parents? Are there bullies who like to pick fights with people? Do people do things in an emotional fit they afterwards regret? Are teenagers prone to being suicidal when things don't work out for them? Do groups of people hold grudges against other groups? Do some people seem to have really bad luck?
Friar Laurence is concerned about Romeo's request to marry Juliet because he knows that Romeo only recently declared his love for Rosaline and fears that Romeo is acting impulsively. He also worries that marrying the two young lovers could worsen the feud between their families, the Montagues and the Capulets.
At the time he was living in Bishopsgate, just to the north of London.
Considering that Romeo and Juliet were both children of ruling classes, the chances of them having jobs in our modern setting is remote at best. The most likely occupations they would find themselves in would be a musician in Romeo's case, and in Juliet's, a philanthropist.
Many consider Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare to be one of the greatest love stories ever told. The tragic tale of the young star-crossed lovers from feuding families has captivated audiences for centuries with its themes of love, fate, and sacrifice.
No, I wouldn't say they were. Juliet did defy her father by her marriage to Romeo, but that wasn't rebellious as we know it today. It was normal for young women to have arranged marriages to older men, but if there hadn't been a feud with Romeo's family her father may had consented to a marriage.