padackles:

heathyr:

heathyr:

The play is a satire on teenage romance, for goodness sakes. They knew each other for less than a week. It’s all based on infatuation and lust. Romeo was crying over, what was her name… Rosaline? And that very night he meets Juliet! Rebound, much? And…

Basically, it was the Twilight of the late 1500s, only without vampires or werewolves shapeshifters, and much more famous because he had pretty words he didn’t need a thesaurus for.

The basis of the entire play was to show the stupidity and folly of youth. Romeo and Juliet were only 14 years old. Ya know how parents always tell you that you’re being SO dramatic, that if something bad happens, it’s not the end of the world? Shakespeare basically wrote R&J to show the world how teenagers actually think. That for them, their first love, their first break up, their first everything — to them, yeah, it is the be all end all.

Pretty ingenious of him, actually :) Show how stupid kids are by wrapping it in pretty prose and the guise of forever love cut short.

*blinks*

Now where did I hear that line before?