The Relevance of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Today

The Relevance of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Today

I strongly agree with this statement the reason being, the story of

Romeo and Juliet shows arange of emotions and issues that people from

any age, gender or background are able to relate to. This is one of

many reasons why the story is such a big success in today's culture.

Shakespeare's story is focused on the two young lovers that can't be

together and all the anguish that surrounds them, this is true as it

follows on in to day's society.

At the beginning of the play Shakespeare lets the audience have an

insight to what the play may be about, he does that in such a way

through the prologue which is featured in the beginning of the play.

"From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes

civil hands unclean" this quote shows how Shakespeare intrigues the

audience interest by letting the audience question themselves on What

the grudge is about.

In every young age people have fallen in love against their parent's

wishes. Shakespeare has shown this when Romeo sneaks his way into

Capulet party, his great enemy, once there he set his eyes upon on

Juliet and says ("Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For

I ne'er saw true beauty till this night") and he fall's head over

heels for her as she does for him, once Romeo and Juliet found out

about their parents they knew they couldn't be together but they were

so in love and found it hard to resist one another and so the only way

they thought was best was to sneak around without their parents

knowing.

This can be easily link in today's world were people meet at social

events such as night club...

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The audience will feel that the characters see no other way of being

together and may understand Shakespeare views upon that scene. The

others views that the audience may feel that they cannot relate to is

the death, why would two young lovers turn towards death when there

could be other options that would save them?

I've come to the conclusion that Shakespeare has taken real life

situations and put together in to a tragic love story, this has been

done through number of his plays such as Macbeth and Hamlet, these

play's have the same similarities situation as seen in Romeo and

Juliet's play, which consist of feuding, love, revenge and suicide.

This very old play relates human nature interaction with issues which

not only interesting for the audience, but they can relate to them in

today's culture.