Today’s society pictures Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as a love story about two reckless teens too young to make mature choices about love. The way Romeo and Juliet is pictured is so much less than it actually is. Romeo and Juliet is overrated as a love story and underrated as a story in general. People just see one theme on the story, the love story, were it also has other themes, one of them being how kids are too afraid to talk to their parents or even voice their opinion without the fear of their parents freaking out. Romeo and Juliet is more than a love story but also a story about how kids too afraid to come to their parents with a problem or even state their opinions on things without fear of their parents getting angry. Juliet clearly doesn’t want to get married to Paris, she would rather marry Romeo 100%. Romeo is much more appealing to her after all, he’s around her age and is quite good with words. But Juliet expresses to her …show more content…
The way he acted however showed that he was clearly depressed. And though finding someone to “love” isnt a way to “cure” depression, it clearly brighten up Romeo’s mood, but his parents never even payed attention to how he acted or was even concerned in the slightest, his father states “He’s been seen there many mornings, crying tears that add drops to the morning dew and making a cloudy day cloudier with his sighs. But as soon as the sun rises in the east, my sad son comes home to escape the light.He locks himself up alone in his bedroom, shuts his windows to keep out the beautiful daylight, and makes himself an artificial night. This mood of his is going to bring bad news, unless someone smart can fix what’s bothering him.”(Act 1, Scene 1, Pages 7-8). Although mental illnesses probably weren't as well known in the 1500s, His father knows his son isn’t acting well but he doesn’t show concern , he rather just says “can someone please fix my son I’m not in the