Oh I defantly would have used yours Shelby that was good. But I didn't get it in time...
I decided to use the one I came up with:
How could I have ever loved before meeting you, as you are the truest beauty I have ever seen. Will you be my Valentine?
I know it doesn't rhyme and it's not too good, but it's all I could come up with. I am a good writer just not of these kinda things...
I agree with you. I dont like the story as much as I thought I might.
My English teacher is completely freaking me out. All she talks about is the underlying "dirty" stuff Shakespeare writes in the play. On and on she talks about it.
I think she needs to get a boyfriend or something...
That underlying "dirty" stuff was not uncommon during the times of Shakespeare. Everyone has to remember that what is considered as normal then may not be now. Times change.
I don't care for Romeo and Juliet. But I used to love it. The reason why I don't care for it so much now is because since the time I have read that play, I have been exposed to what Shakespeare is really about and R&J just doesn't provide that. R&J is an excellent play for those just starting out with Shakespeare because it is so easy to interpret and has a lot going for it. You can easily pick out the (in early English terms) exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. R&J also follows the basic order of things in Shakespeare. It has one plot and displays all the techniques used in a tragedy that lets beginners easily see them. The language is also much easier in this play than in most others (aside from A Midsummer Night's Dream which I dislike even more rofl).
People can say the characters come off as "slutty" and "creepy"...but hell, that is what people were like back then. Incest and that sort of thing were not uncommon. And also, it wasn't uncommon for a 50 year old to marry a 14 year old. Everything was for dowry and money. Girls were married off to bring money into the family. Love was not added into the equation. It just wasn't. So yeah, there is a lot of that "dirty" stuff displayed in Shakespeare's writings, but DUH!! rofl Consider the times Shakespeare wrote in. I think people really need to think of that before reading his plays. If everyone went into a play expecting the characters to be "clean" in today's terms, everyone would hate his plays. In my opinion, thoughts like that shouldn't determine whether the play was "good" or "bad". But that's just me rofl.
R&J wasn't his best play and isn't even considered in his top 4 best tragedies. Those would be "Othello", "Macbeth", "Hamlet" and "King Lear". And though this doesn't matter at all, rofl, just another "fun fact" rofl...his best comedy is "Twelfth Night" lol.
Another reason R&J is good to start off with is because it's like a romantic tv show teens would watch today. You have a girl and a boy who are deeply in love with eachother but their parent's don't approve (in a round-a-bout way) so they try to run off and be together.
To get back on topic LOL (I digress a lot rofl -- especially when it comes to Shakespeare rofl) I think your teacher should be teaching you the underlying symbols and metaphors rather than just the "dirty" stuff. lol.
