Good grief, how many versions of this story have there been done by Hollywood?!
I love Shakespeare, but I admit that I loathe this story. This nonsense of exalting romance - especially TEENAGE romance! - to the point where you live for nothing else but one other person, to the point where suicide is portrayed as romantic - ugh, I find it abhorrent.
It's such a part of our culture that I wonder how many people have done just that. Oh, not consciously, but just because it's so well known that it's become part of our cultural DNA.
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Date: 2013-04-12 09:45 pm (UTC)I love Shakespeare, but I admit that I loathe this story. This nonsense of exalting romance - especially TEENAGE romance! - to the point where you live for nothing else but one other person, to the point where suicide is portrayed as romantic - ugh, I find it abhorrent.
It's such a part of our culture that I wonder how many people have done just that. Oh, not consciously, but just because it's so well known that it's become part of our cultural DNA.