Is Romeo And Juliet Still Relevant?

Karen Walker once stated, “A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That’s what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.” Many people argue that a work of literature written before 1900 is outdated and has nothing to contribute to modern society. Others argue that classic works are timeless in what they say about human nature. Romeo and Juliet can be seen as a relevant play of these times. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a relevant work for a person in modern times due to its lessons of demonstrations to think before acting, proof that love can not be kept apart, and it shows the consequences of jumping to conclusions.

This can be seen when Romeo kills himself, and he says “And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars, from this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last.”(Shakespeare 1139) This is indicated as a lesson because Romeo did not think through here in this moment, like today in this time people still do not think things through before acting. If it would have been thought through in the first place Romeo would have been thinking before he committed suicide, and Juliet would have awoken when he was still alive. When time is not taken to think, everything could be ruined and destroyed in those minutes or seconds one has acted in, when one could still have been thinking. One little thought, can change a world of things in a matter of