Perhaps this is how movies many so innocent about it..As similar writings, such as Lolita of Vladimir Navokov shall never be exageratedly romanticize in movies.
Read it 3 flipping times, seen varied movies of it more times than i wished.
It's horrible!
Romeo is just a typical Horny boy Juliet is incredibly stupid
And both families are conceited and selfish...and flipping up them selves!!!
Shakespear wrote 30 something plays....more than half of them were comedies (17 comes to Mind).... The rest were tragedies, romance and historical pieces.
Yet goddamned Romeo and Juliet keeps rearing it ugly head all the time!!!
His comedies were great!!!
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Ya I've never looked at this as something extraordinary. These days this happens every day. Maybe then it was unheard of
I think they're hoping we all assume they both knew they were each others special "the one!" Age, social class, family difference created the inevitable barrier leading them to take drastic measures. At that particular time women and men didnt live as long also children didnt always make it past certain ages, so they dated younger for an extended period of baby making time with a healthy woman.
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Wait hold on why is a 17 year old going after 13 year olds? That's not rapey or anything wtf
@SW-User That's not really that weird or big of an age gap. A thirteen-year-old girl in my martial arts class growing up was dating a seventeen-year-old from her church, and the relationship was perfectly healthy.
You'd probably have a heart attack if you read the Goethean [i]Faust[/i], by the way.
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@Keraunos thank God I don't read much. Ugh if I was her parent I would dismantle their relationship and ban him from the house.