So I decided to drop the 'One with' thing. Unless I REALLY can't think of a title, you won't be seeing that again. I'm outside right now, with my little bro, at one-fifty in the afternoon. In the afternoon. My torso's in the shade but my legs are fully in the sun and they're evaporating. I swear it. Luluf's playing in the water though so he's cool.
Hey y'all how's it going? I'll be home by tomorrow!!! It took so much self-restraint not to put more exclamation marks after that. It's amazing how excited I am despite the fact that it means I'm going to get my results. Speaking of which, I'm thinking of holding a we're-so-screwed party on the nineteenth, preferably near a lake or on a terrace or something, for obvious reasons. BY THE WAY, something really cool happened in Kerala. I met someone not related to me who reads my blog! Yay! My life is not a failure! He didn't ask me to sign anything though, which was disappointing.
Bwahahaha, I've purposely been keeping my dad in suspense till now. Put away the shotgun Dad, R+J refers to Romeo and Juliet, one of the most horrible romances ever written. They die in the end. Apparently happy endings hadn't been invented by then.
Basically, Romeo and Juliet come from two rival noble families, the Montagues and the Capulets. The play begins with a street fight between them. You know how these things start, one Montague pushes a Capulet, a Capulet stabs him in return and before you know it they're all killing each other. The Prince of Verona, the city the play is set in, gets pretty pissed off about this, probably because they got blood all over his nice clean streets and he's all like, "further breach of peace will be punishable by death." Cue Capulet and Montague "Awwww!" I guess they were too scared to start singing the party pooper song.
Right after this, a Count named Paris meets Capulet, the head of the Capulet clan, and offers to marry little Juliet, his daughter, who was apparently a stunner even when she was just thirteen. Anybody else find that creepy? Senior Capulet does because he tells Count Paris to wait for a couple of years and then invites him to a party they're throwing so he doesn't feel too bad. What's really interesting in the play is the way you can actually see Juliet's character develop. When Mummy and Nurse tell the almost-fourteen Juliet that Paris has proposed to her, and to check him out at the Capulet ball that night, she answers first saying that she has never thought of marriage and then that she will try to like Paris as much as her mother wants her to. She seems naive in that scene and it's pretty obvious that she hasn't even thought of love yet.
Romeo on the other hand, playboy that he is, is at this point in love with somebody else, Rosaline, whom he comes to meet at the Capulet ball. He does like things he can't have, doesn't he? Well, the rest is pretty obvious. He meets Juliet, they fall in love and after a while they're married. The story goes kind of downhill from there and it ends with the scene in a graveyard where Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and poisons himself. Juliet wakes from her drugged sleep, she drugged herself to escape marrying Paris, another long story, just as he's breathing his last breath and then he dies with a kiss. Heart-broken Jules stabs herself with Romeo's dagger after which the grief-stricken families hear the full story from the Friar who married the lovers which leads them to make peace. And never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Man, now I'm depressed. Happy Thursday!
Read the actual play. It's amazing, especially the balcony scene.
LOOK A FOLLOW BUTTON!!!
Hey y'all how's it going? I'll be home by tomorrow!!! It took so much self-restraint not to put more exclamation marks after that. It's amazing how excited I am despite the fact that it means I'm going to get my results. Speaking of which, I'm thinking of holding a we're-so-screwed party on the nineteenth, preferably near a lake or on a terrace or something, for obvious reasons. BY THE WAY, something really cool happened in Kerala. I met someone not related to me who reads my blog! Yay! My life is not a failure! He didn't ask me to sign anything though, which was disappointing.
Bwahahaha, I've purposely been keeping my dad in suspense till now. Put away the shotgun Dad, R+J refers to Romeo and Juliet, one of the most horrible romances ever written. They die in the end. Apparently happy endings hadn't been invented by then.
Basically, Romeo and Juliet come from two rival noble families, the Montagues and the Capulets. The play begins with a street fight between them. You know how these things start, one Montague pushes a Capulet, a Capulet stabs him in return and before you know it they're all killing each other. The Prince of Verona, the city the play is set in, gets pretty pissed off about this, probably because they got blood all over his nice clean streets and he's all like, "further breach of peace will be punishable by death." Cue Capulet and Montague "Awwww!" I guess they were too scared to start singing the party pooper song.
Right after this, a Count named Paris meets Capulet, the head of the Capulet clan, and offers to marry little Juliet, his daughter, who was apparently a stunner even when she was just thirteen. Anybody else find that creepy? Senior Capulet does because he tells Count Paris to wait for a couple of years and then invites him to a party they're throwing so he doesn't feel too bad. What's really interesting in the play is the way you can actually see Juliet's character develop. When Mummy and Nurse tell the almost-fourteen Juliet that Paris has proposed to her, and to check him out at the Capulet ball that night, she answers first saying that she has never thought of marriage and then that she will try to like Paris as much as her mother wants her to. She seems naive in that scene and it's pretty obvious that she hasn't even thought of love yet.
Romeo on the other hand, playboy that he is, is at this point in love with somebody else, Rosaline, whom he comes to meet at the Capulet ball. He does like things he can't have, doesn't he? Well, the rest is pretty obvious. He meets Juliet, they fall in love and after a while they're married. The story goes kind of downhill from there and it ends with the scene in a graveyard where Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and poisons himself. Juliet wakes from her drugged sleep, she drugged herself to escape marrying Paris, another long story, just as he's breathing his last breath and then he dies with a kiss. Heart-broken Jules stabs herself with Romeo's dagger after which the grief-stricken families hear the full story from the Friar who married the lovers which leads them to make peace. And never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Man, now I'm depressed. Happy Thursday!
Read the actual play. It's amazing, especially the balcony scene.
LOOK A FOLLOW BUTTON!!!
4 comments:
breath, baby, not breaths and you need a comma after have in "He does like things he can't have, doesn't he. and a question mark
otherwise lovely
chip of the old block
i thought it was chip 'off' the old block. Joe!!!! the French TGV would lose to you at the pace your writing sets!
Luluf's?? :P
Meh -.- I thought R+J was going to be a thrilling story about you and Ru... Sigh, anyhow, I've never quite read Romeo and Juliet like that :)*Intrigued*
Super writing! Chip of/off the old?? block is right! You can never guess what a large part that damn play has played in many real -life romances .esp the balcony scene :-).
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