Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Why I hate Romeo and Juliet

Ever since we've gathered our understanding, we've known or taunted upon as Romeo or Juliet. I can personally guarantee for a fact that there has been atleast once in all our lives that we have been called as one of the "Love Troubled".
It only goes to show how grand and infamous is this particular Shakespearean story. And EVERYONE seems to love it. Everyone but me, that is.
I love reading famous things. It keeps me updated to flaunt my literary capabilities. Yes, I'm totally tooting my own horn. What can I say? I'm a badarse. Anyway, so I grabbed Romeo and Juliet once I started understanding the depths of romance. And I licked. It. Clean.

I was disappointed. Really, horribly, terribly disappointed. There are no words to express the level of disbelief I felt throughout the short duration of my reading. Seriously, WHAT IS THE FUSS ABOUT?

Here are things that made me question what all the works were about.

1. Its tragic.
What kind of romance is tragic. Not even once, but the entire book was a bucket load of tragedy. People were killed and egos were built. It didnt have one scene which made me giddy and tingly. It was just sad.

2. Romeo is a wuss.
He is. Totally. I disliked him from the very beginning. What kind of strong protagonist  is introduced as the one who's "adding mists with his sighs of sadness"? Why can't he be the angry lover who is scorned. Why does he have to be weepy and mopey. He was stupid and careless. Same goes for the time he disappeared to Juliet's balcony right after the party. He risked his cousin's life, if not his.

3. ITS SO BLOODY IMPRACTICAL!
The impracticality of it made me furious. It was supposed to be epic! It wasn't supposed to be at level infinity of a fantasy. What kind of person falls in love at a first glance? Okay, even if he does, what kind of person falls in love at first glance of an enemy?! Where is the loyalty?! And then he skipped off merrily under Juliet's balcony and spoke corny and cheesy stuff that makes the best ones nauseas. If I were in the place of Juliet, I would have been screaming bloody murder and flailing my arms like I was possessed when I had spotted enemy under my balcony singing ballads. Its rapey and stalker like behavior.

4. It lacks moral values
Does it even have a moral? Both of them suicide at the end. Why? What purpose did it solve? Why couldn't they avenge each other? Why did they have to kill themselves? Or even better, why didnt they come clean? I can assure you, running away and getting married in hiding and then fighting people off is definitly more work than just coming off clean.

5. They were so self centered and selfish. Pout.
Okay, seriously bro, family honor is something. Both of them trashed it like garbage, flipped the bird in faces of their ancestors and went on cheering to "the path of love". I mean, c'mon!! If you cannot remain loyal to your own family who you grew up with, how in the name of Lord can you possibly stay loyal to one another? How do you know that the other will not traipse to some other purpose ditching your sorry arse because the other thing is more enticing? Aren't relationships built on trust? By the looks of how short their meetings were, trust wasn't something they had time to factor in. So, maybe, in a twisted sort of way, it was good that they died and saved themselves pain.

Maybe, I'm vehemently against passion and love or maybe its just I'm plain bonkers. Whatever may the thing be, Romeo and Juliet was something I had HUGE expectations with and they all bit dust once I was even halfway through. The entire time, I was bashing the book against my mattress just due to the idiocy of any fat chances of happening.

2 comments:

  1. keep it up!! ;)
    appreciative! ! :)

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  2. you definately have critics skill appreciative ones.........kindly advise me good books but not the love stories or so....

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