[ SECRET POST #2559 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2559 ⌋

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Comments

Re: I don't know how many people this will upset, but...

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry to burst your "explain things to us stupid masses" bubble but...literally no one who knows anything about the plot DOES think that in the first place. It's really not a remotely unpopular opinion, it's blindingly obvious fact that every single person from the loftiest Shakespeare scholars to that B-average high school kid who had to read it for sophomore English is aware of. It's stated as fact in almost every introduction to every edition of the play.

The ONLY people who think Romeo and Juliet are true love are people who don't know anything about the plot. You don't need to point this out by citing examples from the play, because everyone who has read/seen the play and knows what you're talking about already knows that it's not a story about true love.

Mind you, people still think it's a poignant romantic story due to the fact that the Capulets and the Montagues were so busy feuding that they didn't notice that their teenage kids had romantic problems and needed the support and advice of people older and wiser and with more perspective than them, and that the parents were acting as childishly as their kids and therefore the kids were so alienated that they convinced themselves their love was the most important thing ever because they had no convincing standard of actual maturity to be a role model for them. And before the families got their shit the kids were both dead due to immature whims that should never have gotten so out of hand, and wouldn't have gotten out of hand if their families weren't such neglectful, warp-perspective'd boneheads. Kind of a story pointing out the dangers of what can happen to young romance, which everyone thinks of as so sweet and cute and harmless, when it happens without guides or perspective.

Re: I don't know how many people this will upset, but...

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, I don't think people who read it that way are stupid. Do I think they misread the text? Yeah. But that doesn't make someone stupid.

Maybe you've never come across these people, but there's plenty of people who call Romeo and Juliet "the greatest love story of all time" and reference them as "true love". There's even people who compare Romeo and Juliet to ships in fandoms, one of the known ones that did this a lot was the Harry Potter fandom.

Your last paragraph was a summary of what I was just touching on.