Thursday, September 24, 2015

The love at first sight couple

Besides the strange personality of a childish Romeo and a clever Juliet, the book was truly interesting and attractive. I already finished reading the whole Act two and writing blog posts like this make me realized the time for thirty-day challenges. The story and language of Romeo and Juliet made it an unforgettable classic. Scenes of Act 2 were full of love and hilarious views. However, the part that I liked the most was the balcony scene where Romeo and Juliet showed their love to each other coincidentally.

The scene at the balcony was absolutely classical that both of the characters showed their love for each other without noticing that her love was there. If I were Romeo, I would never go to my enemy’s house by myself. For me, it was the behavior that made me near the hell. However, Romeo was Romeo that he wouldn’t be as timid as I was. Thus, his love for Juliet and his courage motivated him to find Juliet. Even though what he did can possibly forced him to die, he wasn’t afraid that he knew Juliet is more important than any other thing in his life. It’s Romeo’s love that moved me and remembered the scene.

Besides how Romeo performed, Juliet’s expression of her love was also impressive. Instead of that “O Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo”, I like how her performed in the later sentences better (Shakespeare). If people have to say the scene that Juliet wanted to abandon her family name in case to engage with Romeo was touching, then they have to say the later scene that Juliet was swayed by considerations of gain and loss made the readers empathy. I had to say that Juliet was mature when she met her mother and said she would look to love Paris. However, she was just a young girl when she asked Romeo to swear again and again: “O, swear not by the moon”, “lest that thy love prove likewise variable", “Do not swear at all” (Shakespeare). She cared about Romeo too much that she even didn’t want a simple and beautiful pledge to gave her any dangerous to lost Romeo.

Then, in the last part of scene two, I saw a sentimental love between the young couple. From where it said, “she exits”, “reenter Juliet above”, I laughed a couple of times. It’s not just hilarious, but showed how much Juliet loved Romeo or how much she wanted to stay with Romeo. Juliet truly didn’t want to leave, but she couldn’t disobey her mother’s requirement. “Hist, Romeo, hist! O, for a falc’ner’s voice” (Shakespeare). She already missed him although they didn’t be apart yet. Also, they already talked about how they would meet again or how they would transport information. If it’s the middle of the scene moved me to remember and get into the story, then it’s the last part made me to love the story and the realistic characters.

Lastly, in act two, Romeo and Juliet finally engaged. Well, they engaged by just seeing each other twice. However, for the right person, one sight means everything.




Shakespeare, William, Barbara A. Mowat, and Paul Werstine. Romeo and Juliet. New York: Washington Square Published by Pocket, 1992. Print.

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