Hi

Who are the six deaths? No, please tell me who are the six people who die because of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship and not because of the ongoing bloody feud resulting in a cycle of generational violence that’s been going on probably since much before they were born, and that their deaths put an end to? Please enlighten me. Go ahead. I’m waiting.

I want to know how two teens naively making some rash decisions in the face of the strong feelings of sweet young love (and yeah lust too, that’s natural and okay) are to blame for this carnage, and not the irrational hatred between these two houses, kept alive even though no one remembers how the ancient grudge started

I’m this close to going over every death in the play, in fact I think I have before. I’ll grant you that R&J themselves wouldn’t have committed suicide if they didn’t have their relationship AS WELL as the conflict (though I would still blame mostly the conflict) and maybe Paris (I admittedly don’t care about him).

Tybalt and Mercutio are on the feud unless you’re gonna blame Romeo for trying to stop a fight. Other people would have died instead since, you know, their death wouldn’t have buried their parents strife

The play opens with a street fight before they ever laid eyes on each other! The prince was already fed up with that kind of thing!

If people think this tragedy is a cautionary tale, why would they think it’s against love, as rash as it might be, and not against hatred?

I’m still mad about this. Of course it’s fine for people not to like the play, but they repeat arguments against it that are just a really weird interpretation, and they became standard on the internet somehow. Are people actually coming to these conclusions independently? Really specific numbers that don’t actually have textual support? You can’t take your opinions from internet memes and then turn around and act like people who disagree are idiots.

I think the “sincerely, everyone who actually read it” part is what really got under my skin. Saying that and then just making up things. No one could possibly disagree with this claim I made with no support in the actual play

With the age gap thing I heard somebody talking about Disney’s Snow White recently, and how people on the internet just accepted that there’s a huge gap between her and the prince, when the models for the character were on their late teens, her age is not stated anywhere in the movie and they look about the same age.

I definitely had absorbed that as background information and didn’t particularly question it. But if someone had directly asked me what her age is I would have been aware that I don’t actually know.

Another one is understanding it… 

(Sigh) I’m done…