"...only a few days separate their meeting and their deaths. We can see the play, then, as a tragedy about time, and how little there is of it, and also about youth, how we assign passionate importance to things and people when we're young because we don't have the breath of experience to behave more moderately-which is maybe the tragedy of adulthood."
"As Harry Granville Parker puts it, Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy of youth as youth sees it. If you're young or have ever been young you know what it's like to be pulled in many different directions as you try to discern whether feelings that are brand new to you are more like flashes of lightening or an eternal ocean. And you know what it's like to live fully and fearlessly and maybe even a little foolishly and the occasionally tragic thing is that you are just grown up enough for that kind of thinking to get you killed."
"But the universe will not bend to them, or to anyone. No matter how real your love, you can't avoid fate, and you can't alter time..Romeo and Juliet's hubris in believing they can change the world leads to their demise."
-John Green, on Romeo and Juliet.
Why does every word out of the man's mouth ring so true to me?
Both Shakespeare and John Green.
~Sam
"As Harry Granville Parker puts it, Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy of youth as youth sees it. If you're young or have ever been young you know what it's like to be pulled in many different directions as you try to discern whether feelings that are brand new to you are more like flashes of lightening or an eternal ocean. And you know what it's like to live fully and fearlessly and maybe even a little foolishly and the occasionally tragic thing is that you are just grown up enough for that kind of thinking to get you killed."
"But the universe will not bend to them, or to anyone. No matter how real your love, you can't avoid fate, and you can't alter time..Romeo and Juliet's hubris in believing they can change the world leads to their demise."
-John Green, on Romeo and Juliet.
Why does every word out of the man's mouth ring so true to me?
Both Shakespeare and John Green.
~Sam
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