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No Comments Thursday Poetry My reaction to Act V Scene III
The poem I’m choosing to write about was the persona poem on Juliet Capulet and her thoughts about Romeo before she decided to kill herself. In this scene, the writer chose to have Juliet realize she isn’t in love with Romeo. Juliet realizes that he is immature and wooed her when she was young and naive. When she wakes up in the tomb Juliet decides that there are two paths she can choose, they could runaway together or her best bet would be to stay home and grow up.
I thought it was really witty that the writer had Juliet comment that “It’s not like this has been the greatest love story in history” because that is exactly what critics call the play. I thought it was also interesting how she had Juliet realize that men sometimes say things that women want to hear and can manipulate them. The idea of Romeo manipulating Juliet would not be in the play because it contradicts the dramatic love story Shakespeare is trying to convey. She states that he bewitched her enough to think that there was nothing wrong with their relationship other then their names, which was a tool to prey on her innocents. I really enjoyed the last stanza when Juliet notices Romeo has died for her and how he killing himself romanced her. It reminds me of how young girls want their lives to play out like a Disney film, only to realize that that is not how love really is. In Juliet’s case, she becomes apart of an epic romance so she plays into the idea of playing the part of “star-crossed lovers”. This shows her naïve view on love and even though she was growing up as the poem goes on, because she is questioning leaving Romeo just to fall in love with a romantic ideology, she ends up being a victim of “the greatest love story in history”.
I did not like how the writer made it seem that Juliet was happy at the beginning of the play. In my opinion, I always saw Juliet as being a very sheltered child who only knew the love of her nurse. Also, Juliet shouldn’t be so happy with her life because she was already promised to Paris. A woman in Juliet’s case would have no say in her life and how it was run so in a way I think Romeo, though he may have been too good to be true, served as a rebellion. This would have added an interesting turn in the story and also give Juliet even more depth.
