Wrong analysis of Romeo and Juliet

[mrs_prufrock]

Wow, so this online guide to the themes of Romeo and Juliet simply does not get it.

This reliance on the motif of Fate in the play is the most representative of Shakespeare's dramatic deficiency. It is not the lovers' flaws that lead them to ruin; the tragedy does not spring from their own weaknesses. As a result, there is little growth of

Comments

[ogrevi]

Yeah, that's a pretty vapid analysis. Yours is much better.
I thought they'd stopped putting wisdom in fortune cookies, in favor of empty platitudes. Good to know somebody's still doing it right.

[mrs_prufrock]

I'm sure I've told you about my favorites ever:

Mine, sometime in February or March 2008: "It tastes sweet."

Mark's, in May 2008: "A nice cake is waiting for you." (That was on our first date.)

[81853k]

I'm still trying to figure out why you got a fortune cookie that told you Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it. And who decided to stick that in a fortune cookie.

But yeah! on your analysis of Romeo and Juliet.

[mrs_prufrock]

Mark and I always get great fortunes in fortune cookies. We've gotten that one a couple different times; I forget who actually got it the first time. He got it again recently.

[bscox00]

And wherefore art thou, in this case, does not mean 'where', it means 'why'.

[mrs_prufrock]

Oh yeah? So she's not blandly saying where are you, but she's actually saying, "Damn it, why do you have to be the specific person you are with the specific name you have, cause that's really inconvenient for me." That's a completely different meaning. And a better one, and one that makes more sense. Huh.

[bscox00]

Exactly. Basically, why do I have to fall in love/lust with the one person with whom I cannot fall in love. Again, they're being acted upon, not the actors.

One of the things that I still remember from my high school English class.

[mrs_prufrock]

Your high school sounds better than mine.