Discuss your feelings about the personalities of Romeo and Juliet thus far.
Romeo
Romeo is the classic romantic hero–even modern songs use the image of Romeo (“Love Story” by Taylor Swift) to represent what every girl hopes to one day find. However, after having read two scenes of Act I, is Romeo the stuff of dreams? Do you think the love-sick characteristics of the Romeo we currently see in the play is the kind of romantic hero we imaged him to be? Explain your answer and refer to the text with Act, Scene, lines: (i.e.1.2.5-10).
Juliet
So far, most of you have met Juliet. Discuss whether or not you find her personality flattering (intelligent and charming) or insulting (conniving and impatient).
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Romeo is very weird. He dwells to much on the past, and need to focus more on the future. Their are plenty of other women yet he mopes and complains about just one girl. He should look for another girl. I guess I would feel more sympathetic if Romeo wasn’t such a push over. I think Romeo is a push over because in the future when he meets Juliet he falls deeply in love with her and forgets about the first girl he loves.
I feel like Romeo would be attractive, in certain circumstances. I imagine him good looking, and smooth. The way he kisses Juliet at their first encounterance, he just seems so charismatic. Yet at the same time I find him very annoying. He thinks he knows love with Rosaline, and two seconds later he falls in love with Juliet. He is so whiney and, not my type I would say. Not that being affectionate is a bad thing; I just don’t find it an attractive quality.
Romeo is a love possessed creeper, obsessed with a fourteen year old girl. Romeo falls in love with girls very easily, so his obsession with Juliet doesn’t seem to be very sincere. Romeo is represented as a romantic figure that girls dream about, but this doesn’t make sense because he spends his time stalking girls a good deal younger than him. Its clear that romeo is in love with Juliet, but he has only just met her.
I don’t think romeo is “the stuff of dreams”. Romeo is just a confused teenager who thinks he has everything figured out. He strikes me as a person who acts upon instinct and does not think his decisions through. I think Romeo is the kind of person who can be easily convinced by himself. For example when he sees Juliet he completely forgets about Rosaline, even when he was totally abscessed with her. He is very fickle and therefore can be a dangerous element in the story.
Romeo seems “over romantic” and at times annoying. Romeo to me does not complete the image that girls dream of someday, so far. He seems to be creepy and he waits outside her room and “listen to thou Juliet over yonder” I know that somehow he will probably redeem himself but so far I find him weird. Juliet I cannot take very seriously because of her age. I believe you can’t find your “true love” when your only 13 years old. And she is becoming very dramatic and makes everything dramatic when all she is saying is that she likes Romeo. But instead of just saying hat she says “O Romeo, Romeo where art thou Romeo shall I compare thee to a summers day” and stuff like that and I find her I guess charming but she is over the top.
I think Juliet is a fine person. Now Romeo I don’t like at all. They say he’s what every girl hopes for, but how many girls actually want someone like him? He is a creep that is all over a women the second he lays eyes on her. When he sees another, he completely forgets about the one he was obsessed with. He treats women like cars. He whines and whines until he gets the one he wants, and when the new models come out he’s like awwwww! When he cant get the car he wants he goes to the dealership and stares at all the cars he can’t have!
I totally admire Juliet! She is feisty and clever. I like it how she immediately has comebacks for Romeo and she doesn’t shy away or anything. I like Juliets personality because I wouldn’t think of someone in her time to act like she does.
I don’t think that Romeo is even close to the boy of my dreams. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy I’d be spending time with. He seems sort of strange and a bit of a stalker. He also believes in “love at first sight”, and I have no faith in that. He says he is so in love, but if I were the girl that he was lovesick over then I would be extremely frightened. He seems to know what he is doing when he talks to woman, but instantly assumes that the woman loves him back. That is a huge turn off for me.
I agree with Hunter. It annoys me that people think Romeo is a romantic hero type person. He’s just a love struck weirdo!
I agree with Maddy. I didn’t think Romeo was the type of person girls would dream of.
Mine Continued…
I used to want the guy of my dreams to be like that….. then I read the book.
Blake, Graham, Hunter, Gavin, Will, and Maddy, I agree with you. I think that Romeo is a bit of an over-romantic creeper. Do you remember when he was hiding in the bushes (stalking already!) and watching Juliet? There, his horrible creepiness was exposed at one of its high points. He talked about Juliet’s cheek and wished to be a glove, touching it (2.2.24-26). I know that nobody in our class is like that, and I am pretty sure that very few people in the modern day world act like him. I have no idea why on Earth he is often portrayed outside of the book as “the stuff of dreams.” Personally, I think that if he were in any type of dream, I would probably classify it as a nightmare.
I agree with everyone as well like Matt said that Romeo is definitely creepy and a bit dramatic. When girls think of guys of their dreams, I think one of the characteristics is that they must at least be emotionally stable, which Romeo is definitely not. If I met a guy like him, I would probably think he was definitely very creepy. Maybe stereotypically, Romeo and Prince Charming have a lot in common, and people just refer to them when they are talking about true love without actually knowing the stories behind them. As for Juliet, I definitely agree with Tara that Juliet is definitely clever, and unlike Romeo, she is not dramatic. Juliet is definitely smart, and she does not fall for guys so easily. Also, unlike some of the girls her age at the time, she is not bent on getting married at her age, and she is very eloquent.
I believe that while Romeo is a helpless romantic, he is also a bit creepy. I think that he can sometimes go a bit overboard with his obsessions. My post goes along the lines of everyone else’s saying that Romeo is a bit of a stalker, who becomes obsessed with whatever is taking over his mind at the time. It also seems like he makes a bigger deal out of things then they really are. For example on pages 41-49 while the men are making their way to the party, everyone is just trying to have fun while Romeo is complaining about love. But I admit it is good for people to be passionate, but Romeo just takes it too far. On the other hand I believe that Juliet is sweet and intelligent. She seems to care about other people, but she also tries to get what she wants. For only being thirteen she is very mature and sophisticated.
I agree with Greta that Romeo is not emotionally stable. He has too many mood swings, and he seems to not know exactly what he wants. First he is confessing his love for Rosaline, and then the next moment he has fallen head over heals for Juliet.
I agree with Will’s car metaphor. Going along the lines of my last comment, it would be easier for everyone if Romeo would just make up his mind, and if he would stop complaining to everyone.
Romeo is kinda creepy i do not think he is romantic. this was originally a play so maybe with the perfect actor and body language it would be very different experience. We are just listening to it we can only imagine what it looks like. It is possible that it was acted way different then we think it was originally.
I agree with mostly everybody that Romeo is a man who should just make up his mind. He has said that he loves Rosaline and then the next minute he is liking Juliet. He should just make up his mind and make everyone’s life a lot easier and happier. Im not saying that its not right to be in love with more than one girl, but it not right that you are all serious with one girl and then the next day have another girl. This is not only wrong but very disrespectful to the other girl. It is also not very right to complain to other people about your own problems. That is what i think is what is mostly wrong with Romeo.
Referring to the book in Act1 scene 4 line 25, Romeo talks about how love “pricks like a thorn” when he may have never even talked to Rosaline, and nothing had ever happened between them. He is heartbroken over a girl he might not even be in love with. In the same act but a different scene he talks about how he wants to kiss Juliet. Adding onto Casey’s comment the definitely falls head over heels very easily
I think Romeo is far from romantic in the modern sense. We all have many negative things to say about his clingy nature, and believe me I agree as well. I think that not only is Romeo insecure about his love, but also that he is confused on the matter of true love. Every time he finds a better girl, he speaks of finally feeling love. Yet as soon as a prettier girl comes around, suddenly THEN he has found true love. He clearly is in love with being in love; That he lives not for a single girl who he can’t live without, but merely for the feelings and emotions of the sort. Once he develops the most basic of feelings for a girl with a pretty face, he jumps straight to love. And has so far been quite unsuccessful. I am still confused why Juliet likes him back, she seems like a much more stable, apt women and I like her personality more then Romeo. Yet she has fallen prey to his common, over-used love acts.
Will, I like the car metaphor. It’s a good analogy to sum up the feelings shown by him.
Greta, I totally agree with the stereotypes about Romeo and Prince Charming. The only aspect of the story that is known to people who haven’t read it is a wonderful romantic man who is great with women. This is clearly untrue, as they are not shown the methods of his attempts nor the previous failures he suffers. Somehow he got Juliet’s attention in a positive way, which still makes me sad cause Juliet is such a better person.
Romeo is a very different character. He is, instead of what people imagined him to be, an emotional, pessimistic person. He seems to be self-centered. It is shown when the he and the other Montagues are heading over to the party and trying to have a good time but Romeo is complaining about his bad love status. Also, he swears that he loves Rosaline, but when he meets Juliet he says he’s in love with her and completely forgets about Rosaline. Romeo thinks that once he sees a girl she’s the one. He is constantly changing his mind and his emotions. He is fickle.
I think Juliet is indescribable. She believes whatever someone tells her and is easily controlled. If she let her own thoughts guide her and listened to what the ‘inner voice’ is telling her, she would be smart, sweet, and independent.
Romeo is not a dream guy at all. Everything he does is over-dramatic and he’s way too quick when it comes to his feelings. Being in love could be fine, but only if he didn’t decide it minutes after meeting someone.
I don’t really like Juliet either. I think she is smart, but when it comes to Romeo she isn’t. She isn’t conniving, but I don’t think she is very charming. She’s just to naive for me to like her. Romeo needs someone who can turn down the dramatics and be realistic and normal, but Juliet is too young and not wise enough to be that person.
I think that the whole Romeo and Juliet story and others along the lines of it have been way over used. It is some what of a cliche. Just like the song which don’t get me wrong I love that song, but after reading some of this book I don’t really see what the big deal with Romeo is. I see that the whole forbidden love story is very intriguing, but Romeo just doesn’t seem like the guy that every girl wants to have. Its obvious he doesn’t know what he wants. I think that him “loving” Rosaline and then seeing Juliet and “loving” her well it seems to me that he really doesn’t know what love is. He may think he is in love, but I think he is confused and needs some serious time with himself to think about who he really loves and if love at first sight is really legitimate.
In my opinion, Romeo is very creepy. He waited outside for her after a party. Also, Juliet is only 14 in the story and Romeo is much older. Romeo also treats women like disposable things. He says he has never known love till he saw this girl, and when he sees another women he says that the love he thought he felt was not true. When he says he loves these women Romeo has also never talked to them or seen them before the moment he says he loves them. As we read farther and farther Romeo seems less romantic and more like a creepy socially awkward guy. It is even weirder that Juliet met him, said I don’t think I like you, kissed him and told her maid that she was in love. The next day, Juliet is heard saying that the family feud is stupid and she wishes they could be together even though they have spoke less than ten sentences and lightly kissed once.
Romeo is not what I imagined him to be. I expected a very smooth boy that was in his late teens. First, he is younger than I expected. Juliet is different than I imagined her, too. I thought she would be looking out for guys but she explains that she is not. She says she is paying much attention to boys right now. I am not exactly sure why, but that disappointed me. Romeo is creeping me out. At first, he says he is deeply in love, and the story had us all thinking that the girl was Juliet, but when we found out it was not, we were all almost mad. I felt like we were all anticipating too much. We were all disappointed, but if we had never heard of he story before, we would not because we would not know that Juliet and Romeo fall in love. Romeo has creeped me out in more than one way, though. When he started spying on her and listening in on her private conversation with herself, I began to think he was a bit weird. Then I found out he was watching her from the bushes. That was the proof for me that proved he was a total love-sick special person. In my opinion, he has issues. At least that is my opinion so far.
I agree with Greta, the vast majority have not read this book they just know the story. It seems to be common knowledge that Romeo is “romantic”. But everyone is in agreement that he is absolutely not by anyone’s standards romantic, but in fact creepy. If I walked into Romeo and had a conversation with him I would be a little freaked out that first of all he is in “love” with a 14 teen year old girl. After i expressed that is weird in the first place I would be like get a grip and not stalk her.
Maile,
I completely understand and agree with what you are saying. Going into the story, I thought he would be a serious ladies man. He lets his emotions completely take over him, and gets very dramatic.
If i were to meet Romeo out on the streets, i would assume he was not stable with his passions and feelings. He seems to be completely obsessed with the girl Rosaline, way beyond that of normal love. He rants about love like he is not in his right mind. He refuses to think about any other girls besides Rosaline. At 19 years old, he should be a bit more mature than that to say the least. In general, Romeo is coming across as a creepy, love sick teenager who needs to get a grip on his stalking problems. He is just a bit too old to be obsessed with a 14 year old girl.
Graham, I liked how you proved your point and used the words you did to describe Romeo. You described him very accurately. Good job.
Will, you were right about how girls wouldn’t want and showed correct examples of it. You also described his character well. Good job.
Gavin, I agree with you about Juliet. Because she’s so young, she’s kind of unrealistic and over-dramatic. It seems like she really doesn’t know what love is.
Chris, I totally agree about Romeo being in love with the idea of being in love. It seems that he likes to put the girls he meets onto a pedestal before he really knows them, so then they can fit his idea of love. But then when there is someone prettier who comes along he just puts the idea of perfection on them.
Damon: I totally agree with you, Romeo is very creepy and stalks Rosaline
Blake: I agree with you too, Romeo needs to move on and find another girl instead of obsessing over Rosaline.
I agree with Drew that pretty much everyone has established that Romeo is a total creeper and should not be in love with someone so much younger than him. As I said before it makes it really interesting for people to read and fantasize about forbidden love. So yeah Romeo maybe a total creeper stalker person, but it makes it very exciting that they are from total different sides and could never be together. I think that is maybe why Romeo is the basis of a girls fantasy. Its because he is going to work for a love that is not allowed.
Romeo needs to get a grip And stop being a creep almost every person he meets.
I agree with a lot of you guys that Romeo is a bit of a creeper. Maybe is was normal in Shakespeare’s time, but if Romeo approached a modern girl like that,he would probably be slapped or have the police called on him. I think Romeo is confusing physical attraction for love. He seemed to get over being “impaled by cupids arrow” pretty fast. I think Juliet is also pretty shallow, but not as obsessive as Romeo. It’s weird to even consider someone that much older than you, let alone completely fall for a guy she’s barely met.
I think that Romeo is one of those people you see who always wants to know what love is. I also see him more of a person with reason to live because he got rejected by Rosaline (1.2.50-55). Even though his love sick and very whinny attitude don’t forget this was the old before dating sites, or even the phone was invented. He was a very lonely person mostly the only person he could go to was Benvolio (as I think). Also what do you expect Romeo is young person and young people always want to complain and mope until they are the right age. Juliet on the other hand is very flattering she is that type of person who just does not want to get into other peoples way like as shown in (1.3.5-10). She charms Romeo from the party, and he excepts it. One other thing that Romeo is that he escape the party showing that he kind of is a little bit of a wimp.
I think that romeo is portrayed as a stalker in the play because back then in shakespeare’s time, boys were probaly like that, sneaking around and secretly looking at thier love. Nowadays, its less dramatic and just a simple “lets go to the movies” or “lets gp to prom”. Because its changed so much, we see romeo as an extremely awkward dude, were as back then, he was probably a pretty stylish.
Julia I kind of disagree with you that the forbidden love is exiting. I think that might be the case if the only barrier between them was their families hostility. I think the age difference is something that they should not try to get past. Romeo should have done the mature thing and left Juliet alone. Just because someone can get a girl much younger than them doesn’t mean they should.
I think that in a way Romeo is the boy of everybody’s dreams but also he is a regular guy that thinks he’s in love with one girl one minute and a totally different one the next. When he is out in the garden looking for Juliet he is convincing himself that she is the most beautiful thing in the world. Romeo is portrait in songs as being the perfect guy in some cases but in the story I think he is just a regular teenage boy who does not know what he want’s.
I agree with you Ian. I agree because this was Shakespeare time and things were a lot different back in those days. If Romeo had done anything to girl in the 2000′s then he would be in jail within a second.
I think Romeo is being very creepy. Think about it. He is sitting outside of Juliet’s window, and he is listening to her talk to herself. Then, he comes out of the bushes just after she was talking about him (2.2.53-65). He is obviously not emotionally stable as many of you have said. He changes his mind very quickly from liking Rosaline to liking Juliet. He is also expecting that Juliet will like him right away, so he jumps right in, and he starts telling her that he wants to be a glove on her hand, so he could touch her face. He is obsessed to the point of being very creepy.
I agree agree with you Will. Romeo is more of whiner than a boy that a girl hopes for. Also he is very weak showing that he is a nobody.
Abi, don’t you think it would be strange if someone was hiding in the bushes outside your window, and he was listening to you talk to yourself.
Talking about Juliet, I currently think that she is about as strange as Romeo. She just goes to the party and sees Romeo, and she immediately says that she loves him without even hearing him speak once. She just says to her nurse, “Who is that?” and falls in love, judging him before she even knows him (1.5.146-149). However, when she says, “If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed,” her attitude starts to get almost as weird as Romeo’s attitude (1.5.148-149). Ian, I do agree that she is not quite as obsessive as Romeo, but still, she isn’t exactly the picture of sanity. Having said this, it is hard to put her within the categories listed in the question (flattering or insulting), but if I had to choose, I would say that she would go under the flattering category. After all, she isn’t really mean; she is just creepy. Nevertheless, I certainly hope that her personality does not reflect how the world was really like in the time of Shakespeare.
Webb, I don’t think that Romeo would have been considered stylish by any means. Even his own family is mocking him because of his obsession over Rosaline. He is probably just someone who can win someone over very quickly. For example in (1.5.104-122), he gets Juliet to like him just by saying some things that would now be considered very creepy.
I do not think that Juliet is a very superficial lover because she is convinced that she loves Romeo after seeing him just once. Even after she knows that he should be her mortal enemy, she still loves him. Matt, I agree that she is just about as creepy as Romeo is. She seems so convinced yet so torn by this love. I also think it is hard to put her under only one of the catagories, so I think that she is impatient but charming.
I think Romeo is a strange person. He can stop talking about Rosaline. People are trying to make him look at other girls but he won’t. When he first sees Juliet he instantly forges about Rosaline. I also found it strange that he was hiding outside her widow while she is talking about him. Romeo is not romantic at all.
Davis, I agree that Romeo is very unstable because he is so obsessed with Rosaline that he locks himself in his room, and then the second he sees Juliet, he forgets about Rosaline. I think he is just after the most beautiful girl he can find, and he says ridiculous things to try to win them over.
Julia, I do agree that this play might make people fantasize about forbidden love, but no one wants to fantasize about forbidden love with a creepy person like Romeo.
Jack, I agree with what saying. some people do have megacrushes on each other, but not to the point of stalking them outside thier window.
Ian, I agree that Juliet is very shallow, and Romeo is very obsessive. He thinks what he is feeling is love, but it is really, as you said, just a physical attraction.
I think that Romeo is a very obsessive. He belives that Rosaline is the only girl he could ever like, and he thinks about her all the time. This shows how obsessive he can be. Romeo also doen’t seem to be very romantic. I belive that he is way to overdramatic.
From what is being said, I think that we can all agree upon one thing: Romeo is a creeper. However, Juliet loves him anyways. How could this happen? Well, the reason has to do with the time period. No, I am not saying that the typical boy in the fifteen and sixteen hundreds was a complete stalker; I am saying that seeing over-romantic stalkers in romance plays was probably what people liked to watch back then. If people liked to watch this kind of entertainment, Shakespeare would give it to them. Nowadays, though, people don’t usually like to see that. To make my point, I will refer to a modern movie – Shrek. Greta, you reminded me of this when you talked about Prince Charming. In a way, Romeo and Prince Charming are alike. They both are over-romantic, creepy, sappy, and complete stalkers. The only difference is that one of them was actually wanted. Why is this? It is because of the people watching the entertainment. Back then, as I said earlier, people wanted to see people like Prince Charming and Romeo. Now that we think of those people as creepers, the romantic one was the one who was refused. What people see depends on what people want to see.
Matt, I agree that Shakespeare was trying to entertain people, so he picked a topic that would entertain them. I don’t think he was trying to say that stalker-like behavior was typical back then, but I think he is trying to show that these two people obviously don’t care about the other’s creepy behavior.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is without a doubt a romance story. Love grows on trees in the lives of Romeo and Juliet (but mainly Romeo). Romeo’s first love was Rosaline. She was everything to him. She was the most beautiful thing Romeo had ever laid eyes on. Everything about her was a blessing to Romeo. Mercutio deafeningly stated all her precious features and parts. These are some of the things he stated, on page 67, “I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes, by her high forehead, and her scarlet lip, by her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh, and the demesnes that there adjacent lie, that in thy likeness thou appear to us.” Here he described her features very descriptively. Romeo has an extreme character, a character of a typical teenager who thinks that nobody has felt pain like his. I imagine that he feels “abandoned.” He has a built-in radar that specializes in finding the most attractive woman. He sees every beauty detail. His character is extreme because he is always jumping around with thought. First of all, he becomes so obsessed with any particular woman. He claimed that he could not live without Rosaline, and if he were to be separated from her, he may as well fall to the ground dead. What I find funny is that he said the same exact thing about Juliet on the very day he met her. He stated his obsessive love for Rosaline on the bottom of page 21 and the top of page 23. This leads me to my next point. He is so dramatic. Every word that leaves his lips is very dramatic. His dramatic character is also vividly shown in the same two passages on pages 21 and 23. He can’t make up his mind on women, and everything he says is dramatic. I also believe that he is emotionally insecure. He desperately needs love all the time because if not then he would really feel “abandoned.” Because he is so insecure, he needs attention, and he makes everything he says dramatic. I believe Romeo is dramatic, immature, and insecure. I don’t think Romeo is the romantic hero on top of the hill. He doesn’t have the mature characteristics of a romantic hero. Before reading the book, I thought Romeo was truly the romantic hero that is in every girl’s dream. However, I now think he is far from that. Romeo is definitely not on my list of characters that I like. I know Juliet far less than Romeo, but I do have an idea what she is like. In my opinion, I think Juliet started out as a modest girl who had no interests in men. However, she really didn’t have the chance to mingle with anybody outside of her home. Therefore, she was not exposed, and she lived in a safety bubble. As a teenager, she too had thoughts of dramatic love when she met Romeo. After that kiss that night they met, “her eyes were opened.” When I say “her eyes were opened”, I mean that she had only then realized what is really out there. At that time, she changed in wanting Romeo badly. So, at first she was flattering, but after meeting Romeo, she moved into the middle, the middle of flattering and insulting. Since flattering and insulting are complete opposites, I can’t pick one. However, as I haven’t read the rest of the book, I cannot know how she is going to change. My guess is that she will become “insulting” (conniving and impatient). We will see how everything turns out.
First, I thought Romeo really loved Rosaline. And, I could understand about him when he was exaggerated for his love and sorrow. But, during Capulet’s party, he met Juliet and I couldn’t understand about him. First of all, I can’t believe that he loved Rosaline for long time, but gave her up so easily and fell in love with Juliet sonner. I thought he needed time for giving her up and making new love, Juliet. Also, he made me annoying when he used similar words as he used to Rosaline as Juliet. In nowadays, the most reasonable character for Romeo will be womanizer. Also, I criticize about his behavior to women.
Juliet was really intelligent person in my viewing. Most of that period’s women unconditionally followed her parents and maybe if Juliet was normal kid in that period. She would marry with Paris(a kinsman of Escalus who wishes to marry Juliet). But, she could insist her own opinion and different with another girls. So, if she was common girl, she couldn’t fall in love with Romeo who was enemy of her families. I thought she was very smart and had enough courage to love enemy.
Casey,
I don’t know how much more I could agree with you. Creepy is exactly the perfect word to describe Romeo. He is utterly obsessed with loving women. He can’t get his mind off of Rosaline and later Juliet. The passage you selected is a perfect example of his obsession. Would I call Romeo a stalker? Yes. He sees every little detail of a woman’s features. Romeo goes overboard. However, Juliet is far more sophisticated and mature. She knows when to stop and how far to go. As we have not read the rest of the book, there is no saying how she might change. She might stay the same, or she might end up secretly going off with Romeo.
Aaron, I really agree with you thought that Romeo was creepy. He loved Rosaline too much and gave her up too easily and went to Juliet. I couldn’t understand about him as same reason as yours.
Philip, I agree that people nowadays would call Romeo a womanizer. When you think about people today will sometimes take days to give someone up, he took about 24 hours.
Greta,
I agree with you in everything you said about the stereotypical romance that ties Prince Charming and Romeo together. They both are portrayed as the romantic hero, but they both have completely different stories. Prince Charming is a bit closer to being the romantic hero (but still far from perfect) than Mr. Dramatic, Romeo. Romeo is definitely not the dream guy. He is always whining, and dramatic.
I think that in a way Romeo is the boy of everybody’s dreams but also he is a regular guy that thinks he’s in love with one girl one minute and a totally different one the next. When he is out in the garden looking for Juliet he is convincing himself that she is the most beautiful thing in the world. Romeo is portrait in songs as being the perfect guy in some cases but in the story I think he is just a regular teenage boy who does not know what he wants’. In life today people who have not read the book think that Romeo is a crazy romantic and that he is the nicest guy. I think that he is a little creepy in the way he obsesses over Juliet by going to the garden and sitting there and just wanting there wanting to hear her speak over her voice. I don’t think he is really what we wanted him to be. Romeo is more like any regular boy nowadays than the perfect romantic we all expected him to be. It will be interesting to see how Romeo turns out.
Alex,
I like how you said love grows on trees. It does seem like that. I totally agree with you that he is a typical teenager that thinks that nobody understands him.
Casey,
I think that you are right saying that Romeo is a little creepy. He really does go overboard with his obsessions when he is so miserable he cannot event eat or sleep.
Romeo is not what I expected him to be at all. In modern media he is often described as the perfect guy. While he is usually portrayed this way, after reading the book, I don’t see him as such. In fact, I see him as the opposite. To me, he seems a bit creepy, even girly. The perfect guy in today’s modern world is not the same as it was back then.
I agree with Maile’s views on the characters of Romeo and Juliet she backed up her thoughts well with strong points.
As Kendra said before, Romeo is not the big romantic guy we are all used to hearing about. From what we have been reading lately he sounds a bit like a drama queen…or king. I’m sure he would have a rough life in modern time. In other words, hes just creepy (like everyone else said)
Kendra-
I like how you described Romeo as basically known as “the perfect man”. Which we all know, he isnt! Well said.
I think that Romeo definitely isn’t what he’s made out to be. Maybe back then women liked guys who hid in bushes and stalked you, but most girls now probably agree that that’s kind of creepy. I don’t really like Romeo also because he is really shallow; he was so in love with Rosaline one day, and the same day he suddenly falls for Juliet and forgets all about Rosaline, when he and Juliet only met for 5 minutes. Romeo definitely wouldn’t meet up with today’s standards. I also dislike Juliet for the same reasons. She wants to marry Romeo after one night together, and she’s only 13. I think that she sounded very intelligent and pretty, and I like how she doesn’t give in to Romeo’s every will even though she’s a girl.
Abi, I agree with you when you say that Romeo changes his mind about girls way too fast.
Tara, I also like Juliet because of her head-strong personality.
Romeo is to much of a push over he is very flip floppy. I hate how he hides in pushes and things like that. I am not exactly feeling the cute romance in the story it feels more like a creepy stalker book. Rome needs to chill out and so does Juliet. I think Juliet is a little crazy because they met once and now they want to get married woooo things are a little to rushed. I believe that Juliet doesn’t truly love Romeo she just likes being love and wants to feel loved. This relationship is not going to turn out well.
Blake, I agree with you that Romeo is very creepy during this story; however, I really don’t think that Juliet doesn’t truly love Romeo. Because, she doesn’t want to marry with Paris but he really loved Romeo and they could fall in love. So, I like your comments but I am opposed to Juliet’s characteristic.