Romeo and Juliet was a story that written by Shakespeare. This story seem like the most famous story that makes the whole world cry and regret for their death and also glade the two family which were once enemy become friend again. No matter the reader is a child or a old man, educated or not, when you ask them for a love story which ended in tragedy, Romeo and Juliet may the first one came into their head. When I was a kid it was the time that China propagandize about the freedom of marriage, they use this as an example to show why the child should abandon the prejudice about the family and simple find some they love. It seem like a perfect love story that the only regret is it was ended in a tragedy.
But things being different when I read this book deeper. Romeo is not some one who love in some because that they ever resemble or complementary, but only because he find Juliet is attractive. He is not that gentle and kind young man who was sentimentality. His though was so childish and naive that makes me hate. His reason of loving some one was only an excuess that may explain welly about his hormone impulse. When he get in love with Juliet I was speechless, I never know that he was thought every girl that he love was the “real love” of his entire life and he will give everything for her and after a “true love” ended he could find another “true love” just by one sight. He is an 15 years old boy who just awakening of love, and by that age he was so childish then most of character in this book, even his lover Juliet.
I never knew that Juliet was 13 and her react was so mature that makes I think she even older then me, expect that part she fall in love with Romeo marks that she was still a child. Only the student in the middle school will wrote love letters now, maybe this is not true but when people grow older they won’t show how knowledgeable they are and how instructed their language is, and the girls will like something which more realistic. Not like Romeo, Juliet was clear about the environment that she was in, she know she could not repire the relationship between two family and she know that was impossible that change her mother’s mind and made her agree that she should marry to someone else. She know the risk and consequence that she take and those things makes she become more mature then Romeo.
The book totally change the impression that I thought about the story and also teach what the world was in 16 century. Although I felt like my prejudice of Romeo was growing while I read the book but I still think this book was enjoyable to read as a play.
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