• @angrystego
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    31 year ago

    I’m a bit confused. Do the inuendos prevent it from being a love story? I always found it to be a tragic lovestory of two horny teenagers. I think hornyness is a common part of being in love.

    • @SCB
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      91 year ago

      It’s a tragedy about two teens in who know each other for 4 days, get married after 24 hours, and cause the deaths of 6 people.

      The story opens with Romeo pining after a totally different young woman, which is why his friends take him to the party in the first place

      Ultimately, it’s a warning about foolish love

      • @angrystego
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        61 year ago

        I agree with most of this. I differ in that I think foolish love is a Natural and integral part of the age of the protagonists. The teenagers are not ať fault in my eyes. So to me, it seems more like a warning about foolish adults with the prime example being friar Laurence - seriously, wtf man, what were you thinking, you were supposed to know better!

        • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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          41 year ago

          Yeah, Romeo and Juliet is the story about how two naive but innocent kids ended up as the victims of their families’ senseless feuding.

      • @assassin_aragorn
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        41 year ago

        It’s pretty fucked all around. It’s not just any two teens, but the children of two powerful families who are feuding for no reason. I think we can generalize it as a warning against foolishness in general. In the end, all of them were Fortune’s fool, not just Romeo.