Currently I am reading two books,
in class I am reading “Romeo and Juliet” and out of class I am reading, “Perks
of Being a Wallflower”. While reading my book recently I realized that
characters in books I’ve read could easily relate to all characters in “Romeo
and Juliet” and other Shakespearean performances. I find it strange because
Shakespeare wrote these plays in the 1600s and now in 2000s you can still
relate to situations and characters in the plays. I later thought more about
this and thought maybe this is why it’s considered a classic.
Plays have been made since before Shakespeare but the thing
is that Shakespeare writes about relatable topics, even though its 400 years
later we still have similar morals and thoughts as these characters. For Example
in Romeo and Juliet one might think that it’s different because they have
swords speak in long sentences. However you could also think about how similar
Montague’s and Capulet’s are to current gangs.
While reading Romeo an Juliet I
tried to find the characters with most similarities to modern day movie and
book characters. In my opinion Mercutio is the most relatable character, he is
funny, nice, and a bit like screwed up. There’s always that one character in
movies that tends to be the one telling inappropriate unneeded jokes like
Barney on how I met your mother or Seth Rogen’s character in 50/50 (I could go
on). Mercutio however is also relatable because he’s normal. He doesn’t let his
friend by on everything and he’s not always partying. When he gets stabbed his
personality switches completely to this angry character with so much to say in
so little words and no will to speak. This character is by far the most
relatable because we’ve all been that person who gets hurt and cant speak words
yet have the need to blame everyone for what happened to you.
Romeo and Juliet could be related
to many topics, books, movies, situations and more and its important to
acknowledge that.
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