Romeo and Juliet Final Essay

    The story of Romeo and Juliet is a little out dated, but it is still a classic. It tells the story of two rival families living in Verona Italy.  Although these two lover are forbidden to see each other they do. There love seems to grow but so does their families rivalry. In the end they decided they can't live without each other and they kill themselves. This seems very extreme especially for these times. No one should be going around killing themselves just because they can't see someone. Maybe if it's the love of your life you can find another way to see them. The story Romeo and Juliet still holds some universal themes such as love, family rivalry, death of a love one and just death and love in general. Also the characters have some differences and similarities to modern people. Such as Juliet to the modern women , although they may have many differences there are some similarities.

       Marriage.That has changed over the years. Women don't usually have arranged marriages, at least in the U.S. Except in some cultures such as parts in the Middle East, India and parts of China. Also the age of marriage has changed, I mean the age people get married. Juliet was supposed to be married to Paris at the age of fourteen!  In Act.1 Sc. 3 Lady Capulet says "Well think of marriage you. Younger then you here in Verona ladies  of esteam, Are already made mothers." Girls younger then 14 were already married and had children! I don't think any 14 year old girl would wanna be pregnant or married.Also the parent usually dosen't pick the spouse. Except Juliet's mother and father picked Paris for her, even though she did not want to marry him.

     The role of women has also changed. Juliet's main job was to marry Paris and have a child. In Act. 1 Sc.2  Paris says "Younger then she are happy mother's made." while talking to Capulet.  But women today have many different jobs some are mothers others are actors, lawyers, docters etc. all different types of jobs.

     The way women meet men is different. Some ways are similar others are not. Like Juliet met Romeo at a party. In Act.1 Sc.5 on page 105 *Romeo takes Juliet's hand* "If I profane with my unworthiest hand this how swine, the gentle sin this; my lips too blushing pilgrims." Women still meet men at parties and other social gatherings, But there are some new more high tech ways to meet men. There are hundreds of online dating websites. Also women usually date a variety if men before they marry one of them. Juliet and Romeo only knew each other at the most a week, then decide they should marry.

   As you can see there are some similarities and differences between the roles of women now and then and marrages and dating. Juliet is probaly more extreme then any modern women when it comes to love. But the universal theme of love, attraction and passion, that Juliet and the modern women share.

romeo and juliet project

Thesis: Juliet compared to the modern women. Similarities vs. Differences. Marriage is alot different today then it used to be. Women pick there husbands usually enless foir religious reasons or somthing else then that would be a similarity to Juliet. But women go out and meet new men and date all different men before they find the one their going to marry. In Juliet's time and in the modern world women still do meet in similar ways. For example Juliet met Romro at a party, it's very common for a women to meet a man at a party. The role of women has changed too. In Juliet's time a womens job was to make children and serve their husband that's basically it, but now women a=have real jobs and provide for there families and bring in an income.

Paragraph 1- Marriage differences and similarities between Juliet and the modern women
Paragraph 2- The job of Juliet vs. the modern women
Paragraph 3-How juliet reacted to situations vs. the modern women
Paragraph 4- Conclusion brings all topics together and the changes

Reading Response:Warm Bodies

  Warm Bodies takes some place in the near future, except there is not future, no one knows what has happened but the world is full of zombies and the few surviors. Then there is R. A zombie but with so much more to offer. He feels and this isn't common at all for a zombie, traditional zombies aren't supposed to feel anything except maybe hungry. R soon falls for a survior named Julie, Julie is mixed up and confused, how did her world turn up like this? She has lost her mother and recently lost her boyfriend. R meets Julie while he is hunting, although he is compelled to eat her, he is more compelled to protect her, this is somthing he has never felt before. He takes her to his "home" or an adbanded old airport where many zombies lurk around. As Julie learns more about R she realizes he isn't her typical zombie. He's more human then anything. He has feelings and he begins to feel human again with her. But soon she must go home, but neither of them realize their effect on the other zombies, seeing R and Julie it makes them feel, and feel human. But then things take a turn for the worst. Will the humans find the cure for the zombies?

   "I dont't know I feel." R says as he sneaks up into Julie's house to tell her the changing he and the others have felt. This is just one situation where he has began to change but this is the first time the others have felt. Is that all they needed? To see R and Julie together and happy, a zombie and a human? To remnind them of their own lives? When you see something that maybe happened to you do  you rember what thats like. Yeah you do probaly.

    Julie really believed in R when  no one else. R is a zombie you really need to have faith in a zombie especially in thius time, I mean the world is run by them and the surving humans are their food source. She saw he felt more and had the will to become human again and he was the cure, he inspired more undead to feel.

  Warm bodies was an amzing book. R and Julie remind me a bit of romeo and Juliet except one of them is dead to begin with and comes to life in the end. But it is about forbidden love and that's the same concept. Zombie and humans aren't suppsoed to mix, much less fall for each other,but they reached out to each other and cured all the undead. Someone should have given Ra chance a while ago.