Celebrities Is To Blame In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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The play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare is a powerful, memorable play about two star-crossed lovers who first met at a party then realized they were really foes since birth. The story after that takes us through their love story and ends with their death. Many people were responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s death. Even though we could blame it on the feud it is impossible to understand people without knowing the context of their lives. In today's world there is so many things we don’t about people. Even in close relationships where we think we know everything it is most likely we don’t. For the things we don’t know there are times where we just assume and categorize people. Celebrities are just one group of people who are categorized all the time. They assume that what they are doing are right and to us right could be a different thing so we can’t really blame people for the choices they make because no one set the rules for what right is. People are judged for the choices they make but who are we to judge on something that there is no really right answer to. We can’t blame people for the choices they make without knowing the context of those decisions and their life. Verona is a city filled with many different families. Some are …show more content…

Shakespeare wants us to remember from Romeo and Juliet that we must always be true to ourselves and if we do that is when we will be at our best. Also he teaches us to not bow down to societal pressures. These lessons that Shakespeare teaches affect our lives today because in today’s society similar things are occurring. There is a lot of pressures to be like everyone else but when we let go of those pressures we can be ourselves and be