Reading Romeo and Juliet, I didn’t feel like I connected with either of them. In fact, both of them kind of annoyed me. They are impulsive, moody, and irrational, they don’t think anything through, and everything they do is to an extreme. If I had to choose a scene that connected with me it would be where Mercutio gets stuck in the middle of Romeo and Tybalts fight and gets killed. Although not being stuck in the middle of sword fights, I have been stuck between like two friends fighting. It’s a situation where them fighting has nothing to do with you and you don’t want to be a part of it, but somehow by being friends with them at the same time your guilty too, and get “stabbed.” Mercutio didn’t have anyting to do with the two families fighting, and I didn’t have anything to do with my two friends fight, but me and Mercutio both ended up getting involved!
I thought it was good for us to read the book at home, but I thought it was a little pointless to re-read the exact same thing together the next day. I feel like I didn’t understand Romeo and Juliet nearly as well as I wanted to because we didn’t really discuss hidden meanings and motifs and characters the way we did for To Kill a Mockingbird or Great Expectations. I wish we discussed it better in class because it’s such a known book and it gets talked about a lot, and I feel like I never really got deeper into it all I understood was surface level stuff. In the beginning it was hard for me to get used to the writing style, but it got easier as the play went on. I used Sparknotes No Fear Shakespeare to help me understand little things, but I never just read Sparknotes instead of reading it.
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