jeza-red: elizabethan-memes: witty-fool: Alternately: it’s both and you’re not automatic
jeza-red: elizabethan-memes: witty-fool: Alternately: it’s both and you’re not automatically smart for saying it’s not a love story I’d also like to add that Fate really screwed Romeo and Juliet over.If only the plague hadn’t delayed Friar Laurence’s letter, 4 of those 6 deaths would not have happened. And of the two that did happen, one of them was Tybalt. Could anyone save Tybalt from himself? I don’t think so.Shakespeare called them ‘star crossed lovers’ not ‘stupid lovers who are 100% responsible for everything in this play’Also also aren’t we forgetting that Romeo and Juliet’s love ended the feud? How many lives were saved because the feud finally stopped? What was going to stop the feud, because it wasn’t fuckign Escalus’ policies was it? How many more lives might have been saved if Romeo and Juliet’s marriage had been discovered at the right time, and the heads of House had a convenient excuse to Bury the hatchet with no loss of pride? Blaming the deaths on Romeo and Juliet is ass-backwards. I also find it concerning that “love story” apparently only ever is supposed to end on a happy ever after, within acceptable ages and cause no harm to anyone.They met, the fell in love - that’s a love story, hon. The rest is called “plot”. -- source link