Although centuries old Romeo and Juliet is still relevant today. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

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Although centuries old Romeo and Juliet is still relevant today. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

        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 clubs or events held by friends or family members, which two young people  meet and fall in love with one another and possible get married in the future.

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Audience will feel they are able to relate to the two lovers as them there selves have falling in love at first sight or maybe the audience might feel Romeo just taking advantage of her so he can sleep with her and think of her as  a quick thing, or it could be a crush and not love.      

In Shakespeare time their were arrange marriage’s in well establish families, this has lead me to believe that Shakespeare has taken that situation and related to his play, this issue was raised, where Lady Capulet says to Juliet “how ...

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