Well surprisingly enough, I enjoyed it quite a lot! The language took a while to get used to, but after a couple pages I caught on. But, as some may know, I'm a grammar freak and some of the sentences weren't capitalized and it drove me CRAZY!
A point I was a little confused on was, how old is Juliet?! 14 or 12? I got a little lost when Nurse and Lady Capulet were talking.
Well some of my favorite quotes were:
Romeo "In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman." (pg. 17) as opposed to...?
Romeo: "O, teach me how I should forget to think!" (pg. 17)
Mercutio (ME!) : "If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down." (pg. 26)
One thing that I love about this play is how vague the settings are! Like, for Scene IV it just says "A street." It just made me laugh that Shakespeare didn't want to spend a ton of time describing his set either!
I loved that Romeo kissed Juliet after they had talked for like, 2 minutes! That would be so strange if that was how things went nowadays!
If that happened nowadays it would be two people drunk at a party :)
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