Hi! Do you like watching, reading, or listening to any play or media made by Shakespeare or inspired by him? Well, today's discussion or essay topic is "Does Shakespeare romanticize youth suicide in the tragic play, Romeo and Juliet?"
I really like Shakespeare, which is why I'm going to be saying that I think that Shakespeare doesn't romanticize youth suicide. Firstly, Shakespeare is tragic, as the topic said. And the death wasn't shown romantic, it was very tragic. Another reason that it wasn't romanticized, is that most experts of Shakespeare say that only the first few parts of Romeo and Juliet are romantic. And most people don't think that characters are being romanticized by what they do, they usually see it through what they say. So I think that the act of what they have done is very tragic, but because of the words and what they said during the first half of the play, people think that the youth's suicide was romanticized. I also think that Shakespeare just wrote the play. He didn't have any intention of romanticizing youth suicide, he just wanted to make a fun play for the people of England to enjoy and have fun watching! He didn't make this play to romanticize youth suicide or encourage that either. I also think that Shakespeare kind of made it look like that since the setting itself is very romantic like Romeo died lying against the tomb of Juliet, and Juliet also dies while lying on Romeo, which to the police, it looked like they were hugging. And even if this isn't described in scripts, it shows like this in many plays. Another reason is that every scene in every play is different. So in some plays, it may look like it is very romantic youth suicide, but I don't think that Shakespeare meant to make it look romantic, if so he would have just made it romantic like The Tempest, but he made it to tragic and I think that there was a reason that he did.
That was all for today, and to summarize it I think that he didn't do it or at least he didn't mean to do it.
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