The lesson was young love can be difficult and you shouldn't make rash decisions you can't take back. Romeo killed himself because Juliet pretended she had.
Actually, I think it was more Shakespeare's response to the new and novel idea of marrying for love, rather than for money and connections (at least as far as the upper classes were concerned.) Shakespeare seems to have been a conservative, and Romeo and Juliet says that letting young people do their own choosing is a bad idea, because young people are idiots.
Not really, because I think the background of being written during a cultural shift is very important to the story, even though it's not outright stated that a cultural revolution is happening at the time.
I mean, I think failing to mention intergenerational familial feuds being stupid is probably an important omission, there...
He wasn't exactly GLOWING about the merits of that stupid grudge...
Did he think they were naïve..? Probably. Did he think the familial feud was a massive part of the whole debacle, and that the two families hopefully learned something as a result?? Fucking hell yes he did.
Shakespeare wasn't exactly a conservative, bruh. Just look at fucking Twelfth Night, or Merchant.... He just lived in "Interesting times", shall we say...
Well, the "falling in love with the scion of the family you are feuding with" just underscores how bad young-person judgement is, and is why they should continue to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, like the cattle they are.
Isn't the lesson in Romeo And Juliet that it sucks being straight? If Romeo just liked Tibalt, the whole thing would have been resolved in Act 1.
The lesson was young love can be difficult and you shouldn't make rash decisions you can't take back. Romeo killed himself because Juliet pretended she had.
Actually, I think it was more Shakespeare's response to the new and novel idea of marrying for love, rather than for money and connections (at least as far as the upper classes were concerned.) Shakespeare seems to have been a conservative, and Romeo and Juliet says that letting young people do their own choosing is a bad idea, because young people are idiots.
you just wrote what I did in more words.
Not really, because I think the background of being written during a cultural shift is very important to the story, even though it's not outright stated that a cultural revolution is happening at the time.
I mean, I think failing to mention intergenerational familial feuds being stupid is probably an important omission, there...
He wasn't exactly GLOWING about the merits of that stupid grudge...
Did he think they were naïve..? Probably. Did he think the familial feud was a massive part of the whole debacle, and that the two families hopefully learned something as a result?? Fucking hell yes he did.
Shakespeare wasn't exactly a conservative, bruh. Just look at fucking Twelfth Night, or Merchant.... He just lived in "Interesting times", shall we say...
Well, the "falling in love with the scion of the family you are feuding with" just underscores how bad young-person judgement is, and is why they should continue to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, like the cattle they are.