My terrific padlet by Drexel Darr

Dear Reader,

27ddarr — 2024-05-15 16:47:11 UTC

Theme: To young of love never ends well.

Through my padlet I wanted to explore the genres of the famous story, Romeo and Juliet. While reading my padlet, you will be able to explore the genres of impulsive decision making, family feuds, maturity, love and tragedies. These genres will be accompanied with direct text evidence, an explanations and an interesting format for the presentation. While reading enjoy the main points of Romeo and Juliet while getting into specific examples from the story.

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27ddarr — 2024-05-16 16:45:40 UTC

In the story, Romeo is at the age of 16 while Juliet is at the slight age of 13. The reason this is so messed up comes down to life experience and maturity . At this point in a Childs life, they are still impulsive, gullible, and easy to make stupid choices. This easily explains why to young of love would never end well. In the story, Romeo even threatens to stab himself after he is expelled. We can see through the quote, "Tell me, that I may sack The hateful mansion [draws his dagger]" (1101). Romeo is so impulsive that he would rather kill himself with a dagger than live on after being expelled. Not to mention he just got over his ex-crush Rosaline. Thus meaning he could easily do it again.

Story Review

27ddarr — 2024-05-17 16:25:53 UTC

The story wasn't to shabby, not gonna lie. It had some pretty good messages/themes about family pressures and feuds, young lives, and impulsive decision making. The Shakespeare language was a little bit tough to understand but reading the lines in chunks and thinking about it makes the comprehension easier. My favorite part of the story is when Tybalt kills Mercutio and than Romeo kills Tybalt. A specific line that shows this event is, "Romeo, away, be gone! The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain" (1092). It really shows us how family pressures combined with the young impulsive decision making leads to problems. I would give Romeo and Juliet a 7/10.

Wanted Poster

27ddarr — 2024-05-17 16:52:31 UTC

Young love isn't necessarily horrible, but combined with family feuding, and it becomes very dangerous. This is why "belonging" to a certain family is sketchy. In the story, the Montages and Capulets hate each other. They even go to say, "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" (Scene 1, Act 1). Through this quote we can see that the feud is old, the houses are alike, and leads to blood shed Most of the people in the opposing family in the story don't even have a real reason to hate each other. This is very similar to people in real life because some people, who belong to a certain "family" or organization hurt and hate without a real reason. At a certain point the feuding just transforms into a hate from associations.

Eulogy

27ddarr — 2024-05-19 15:59:18 UTC

Today, we gather to say goodbye to Romeo and Juliet, whose love story touched us all. They showed us that love can conquer anything, even feuds and hatred. Although it was too late to prove that. Though their time together was short, their love burned bright. Let's remember them for who they were and not the tragedy at the end. Farewell, Romeo and Juliet. Your love will always inspire us Montagues and Capulets.

Through this Eulogy we can see that even through young love is passionate and good looking at first, it will never end as it starts. In the passage it says, "Romeo declares his love for Juliet, drinks the poison, and dies... Juliet wakes up... she kills herself with Romeo's dagger" (Context before Scene 3). This further proves my point of love and tragedies. This is because their passion had such a influence on their decisions that they both ended up killing themselves despite many logical ways to get out of their situations.

Fake Text Messages

27ddarr — 2024-05-19 17:12:01 UTC

Through these messages we can dive into the genre of love. Love is a powerful thing and especially in the story, it has a whole bunch on influence over Romeo and Juliet. In the story, Romeo finds out Juliet has "died" and decides to go to the temple she's in. His final act would be killing himself next to his love. The direct quote of this is, "Here's to my love! [drinks]" (Act 5, Scene 3). If Romeo would have waited just a bit longer, him and Juliet had good chances at getting away with their lives. Thus showing us how much love can influence somebody choices.