Wednesday, February 17, 2010

OCD.....Romeo and juliet thesis

Romeo & Juliet Thesis
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Romeo is a love sick dog obsessed with Juliet. This love affair is making him sick and weak. He is the reason for the untimely death of his love. He doesn't even know her and he is making assumptions that he is in love with his only enemy, Capulet. He only loves her for her looks, because he is so young he doesn't understand what love is and how to handle it.
All he thinks about is the feeling he thinks is "love" but really it's just a teenage boy mind running wild. For example Pg. 23 line's 197-199 " Love is a smoke made with the fume of sigh's; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eye's; Being vexed, a sea nourished with lover's tears". Romeo was way to into this fling with Juliet, but then again so is she, when they meet and fall in love, they have only known each other for about 10 minutes, it's crazy. It doesn't happen like that...at all. All it is is DRAMA and over reacting.
Romeo really doesn't love Juliet, he loves "love", he always has to have a woman in his life just to love. In the beginning of the book Benvolio was talking about how much Romeo loved Rosaline. For instance Pg.33 Line 90. " Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so loves" Benvolio still thinks that Romeo is head over heels for Rosaline, so its not a new thing with Romeo it seems.
the why Romeo is so desperate to marry Juliet its the only thing on his mind and they have known each other for about 12 hours hes just way to caught up in this "fantasy". When Romeo marries Juliet he tries to make amends with Tybalt, but he thinks that just because he and Juliet are married that everything between the Capulets and Montagues are okay and happy, but they're not, he does things without thinking. For example in the beginning of the book it tells about their grudge and how bad it is. Pg. 7 line 1-5. " Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes.." It says right there how old the grudge is and how much they hate each other so why would Romeo still go after Juliet when he found out that she was a ungrateful Capulet, wouldn't he know the trouble it would cause his family?
And all of this Information shows how "love sick" he is and how he just cant live without love. So this concludes the thesis of Romeo and Juliet, and how Romeo is the center of all of the troubles and is the reason for the inglorious ending to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

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