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** On the other hand, some people go too far in the other direction and assert it's not actually a love story, just a story of two stupid teenagers who should have listened to their parents, even though those parents are too busy fighting a completely pointless feud to really do any sort of parenting, which is a big cause of why Romeo and Juliet's relationship is doomed. This also discounts that their lines about being in love are some of the best poetry Shakespeare's written. Romeo and Juliet mishandled their love for each other, but they ''did'' love each other (as much as two teenagers who barely met can could, at any rate). While Romeo and Juliet might have been acting foolishly, they wouldn't have had to if it weren't for their two families needlessly complicating things.
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** On the other hand, some people go too far in the other direction and assert it's not actually a love story, just a story of two stupid teenagers who should have listened to their parents, even though those parents are too busy fighting a completely pointless feud to really do any sort of parenting, which is a big cause of why Romeo and Juliet's relationship is doomed. This also discounts that their lines about being in love are some of the best poetry Shakespeare's written. Romeo and Juliet mishandled their love for each other, but they ''did'' love each other (as much as two teenagers who barely met can could, at any rate). While Romeo and Juliet might have been acting foolishly, they wouldn't have had to if it weren't for their two families needlessly complicating things.
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** On the other hand, some people go too far in the other direction and assert it's not actually a love story, just a story of two stupid teenagers who should have listened to their parents, even though those parents are too busy being locked in a completely pointless feud to really do any sort of parenting, which is a big cause of why Romeo and Juliet's relationship is doomed. This also discounts that their lines about being in love are some of the best poetry Shakespeare's written. Romeo and Juliet mishandled their love for each other, but they were in love (or as "in love" as two teenagers who have barely met can be, at any rate). While Romeo and Juliet might have been acting foolishly, they wouldn't have had to if it weren't for their two families needlessly complicating things.
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** On the other hand, some people go too far in the other direction and assert it's not actually a love story, just a story of two stupid teenagers who should have listened to their parents, even though those parents are too busy being locked in fighting a completely pointless feud to really do any sort of parenting, which is a big cause of why Romeo and Juliet's relationship is doomed. This also discounts that their lines about being in love are some of the best poetry Shakespeare's written. Romeo and Juliet mishandled their love for each other, but they were in ''did'' love (or as "in love" each other (as much as two teenagers who have barely met can be, could, at any rate). While Romeo and Juliet might have been acting foolishly, they wouldn't have had to if it weren't for their two families needlessly complicating things.
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** Rosaline rejecting Romeo due to having "forsworn to love". But was Rosaline genuinely choosing to be chaste or was she, a Capulet, saying that as a means to deter Romeo, a Montague, from pursuing her in order to keep herself safe from the son of her family's enemy?
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** Thanks to MainstreamObscurity and a misreading of what the term "StarCrossedLovers" means, a number of people think that ''Romeo and Juliet'' is the most romantic love story ever written. The play itself is very critical of Romeo and Juliet's relationship, mostly owing to the two of them being lovestruck teenagers who are in way over their heads and making a bad situation even worse. The relationship moves absurdly fast, from "I just met you at a party" to "you are my undying love, marry me" in less than two days, and the DownerEnding where both of them die entirely preventable deaths due to [[PoorCommunicationKills an abysmally bad attempt at explaining exactly what was going on]]. Far from presenting it as the ultimate love story, the play is instead quite critical of their lovestruck relationship that wasn't all that thought out.
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** Thanks to MainstreamObscurity and a misreading of what the term "StarCrossedLovers" means, a number of people think that ''Romeo and Juliet'' is the most romantic love story ever written.written, with the play's title becoming a synonym for "a very good romantic couple". The play itself is very critical of Romeo and Juliet's relationship, mostly owing to the two of them being lovestruck teenagers who are in way over their heads and making a bad situation even worse. The relationship moves absurdly fast, from "I just met you at a party" to "you are my undying love, marry me" in less than two days, and the DownerEnding where both of them die entirely preventable deaths due to [[PoorCommunicationKills an abysmally bad attempt at explaining exactly what was going on]]. Far from presenting it as the ultimate love story, the play is instead quite critical of their lovestruck relationship that wasn't all that thought out.
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While noblewomen *did* marry young, it was very rare that they would start having sex straight away. The example cited here of Margaret Beaufort was actually seen as a dramatically rare subversion of the norm (and notably after giving birth to Henry VII at age 14 she never had another child, suggesting physical damage and/or trauma on her part after the event).
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* IntendedAudienceReaction: Any of the {{Squick}} involved in Juliet, who's only about to turn fourteen, being expected to get married soon was intentional. In the source material, the Juliet figure tended to be between sixteen and eighteen, and Shakespeare made her younger specifically for the sake of AnAesop against child marriage. In England at the time, it wasn't uncommon for noblewomen to be married at twelve; Elizabeth I's great grandmother gave birth to Henry VII when she was that age!
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* IntendedAudienceReaction: Any of the {{Squick}} involved in Juliet, who's only about to turn fourteen, being expected to get married soon was intentional. In the source material, the Juliet figure tended to be between sixteen and eighteen, and Shakespeare made her younger specifically for the sake of AnAesop against child marriage. In England at the time, although it wasn't uncommon for noblewomen to be married at twelve; Elizabeth I's great grandmother gave birth to Henry VII when she twelve it was largely understood that age! they wouldn't begin having sex and bearing children until they were at their late teens at the very earliest (because of the very real danger in the birthing bed to underage women) - therefore Paris' argument that 'younger than she are happy mothers made' would have been seen as every bit as disturbing by a Tudor audience as a modern one.
