67 () posted 2 years ago by folx 2 years ago by folx +69 / -2 61 comments share 61 comments share save hide report block hide replies
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.
Well that's certainly one (humorous, I hope?) interpretation of events, sure...
But I really, really, really doubt that is how Shakespeare intended it to be interpreted, lol...
Literally several hundred years of scholarship, and my own decently extensive reading, suggests, uhh, a slightly different interpretation, lol...
But that's cool. It's fiction. You can read into it what you want, I suppose... shrug