Relationships Essay

Relationships back then seemed different than they do now. They saw love in a different perspective than we do now. There are many perspectives of relationships, some people think different things about relationships!

Lovers and crushes is a great type of relationship to have. If you have known someone for a while and you have this feeling or nervousness when your around them, or you blush, or your hands get all clammy and your heart starts racing, that means that you either love them (not in love, but love) or you just have a crush on them. In Romeo and Juliet when Romwo first saw Juliet, he said he was in love. Back then in Shakespearean time lovers and crushes relationships seemed different. Once they saw someone beautiful, or handsome, they thought they were in love. Nowadays, when that happens, your not in love, you just find them attractive. If you have known someone for awhile and you start falling for them, that could be love, or just a crush. When Romeo says 'Juliet is the sun' he is meaning that she is beautiful, like the sun and that she lights up his world. It could also mean that she`s warm and bright!

It's pretty easy to argue with this topic, but lovers and crushes, and parents are pretty important in teenagers lives. The most important relationship out of the two are lover and crush relationships. If you don't have a lover and crush relationship, that means you won't be ready for the future. You may not know what to do when you get a boyfriend or girlfriend. It might be embarassing to ask a friend and maybe you feel uncomfortable asking your parents. So, that's why I think crush/lovers relationship is important.  




Relationships with parents is a little more difficult. Teenagers think that their parents don't get them and don't get what their going through. Parents do get it though, they were a teenager once as well. Juliet didn't want to marry Paris but her dad made her. When she told her dad she didn't want to marry Paris he said:

Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!
I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,
Or never after look me in the face:
Speak not, reply not, do not answer me;
My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest 

That God had lent us but this only child;
But now I see this one is one too much,
And that we have a curse in having her:

Out on her hilding! 

Her dad was saying that if she did not marry Paris on Thursday that she would not be able to live with them and that they would disown her as their child. 

Today, parents and children would usually talk it over, and if the bride doesn't wanna marry the groom they don't have to. Unless it's a business marriage, then the bride has no choice.  

So, relationships back then are pretty different from what they are now. They are very important relationships in teenagers lives. Those relationships make you feel special, and loved.  

Essay starter

I'm changing my topic to:

B) There are a wide variety of relationships in this play including lovers, marriages, parents/kids, cousins, friendships, and religious.

Intro: From Romeo and Juliet, the relationships in that best represents teenagers nowadays, are lovers/crushes, parents, and friendships. There are good and bad things about all of these. 

1: lovers and crushes definitely represent teenagers nowadays. Especially in high school, that's what some people think about A LOT. Many things to do with love and crushes happen in high school. You may think you found your love, you could have, but also, they could end up breaking your heart into a billion pieces. 

2: With the whole parent relationships, there is so much of that, there can be a love hate relationship, just love, and just hate. There are many of those out there, they can cause kids to run away, and start going against their parents wishes. 

3: Friendships, is a huge thing. In elementary school, when you think you find your best friend, that will definitely change in high school. Everyone changes in high school. It doesn't matter if you think you didn't, you did. You loose your best friends most of the time in high school, over the stupidest things too. But, good things about friendships? There are so many of those too. You have some one to talk to when you need someone, you have a shoulder to cry on. 

Essay topic

A) Romeo and Juliet is widely considered one of the greatest love stories of all time. Decide if Romeo and Juliet's love is "real". Provide specific quotes from the play, use "real world" or personal examples, as well as any research on biology or relationships you do to support your position. Can we define love? Are there different kinds of love? Is one better or more "real" or valuable than another? Why? Is committing suicide for each other romantic? Can it "true love" in the middle and NOT romantic in the end?
That is the topic that I am doing. I am doing this topic because it reached out to me. I think that it was real love. No one has ever done that for each other. So to me, I think it was real love. Even though she was 13, and Romeo was 17-18, it could have been real love.


We don't know for sure, but that is definitely my opinion!

What is love

Dear Diary:

"Why, such is love's transgression , griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, which thou wilt propagate  to have it pressed with more of thine.
This love that thou hast shown doth add more grief,  to too much of my own.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, being perged,  a fire sparkling in lovers'  eyes.
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else?A madness most discreet, 
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

I hate love. Love makes me lose my mind! Why did Rosaline refuse me? I have wealth, looks, and everything a girl needs, but she says she wants to remain chaste! Benvolio  says that I should look else where. He said and I quote
"By giving liberty unto thine eyes:
Examine other beauties."
I guess he wants me to forget fair Rosaline and pay attention to other women out there. It's really easy for him to say this, because he has not been in love, only lust. I don't think I can leave her. Love is truly a beast hiding inside the sweet form of love.

Well I must go now Benvolio, and Mercutio have cooked up yet another scheme! I shall see whether  I laugh or frown. I bid thou adeu for now.

Romeo~

By: Anu

Dear diary,

Today I crashed the Capulet party. I went for Rosaline, but I found a new beauty. Her name is Juliet,  she is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen.
"Oh she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich jewel in an Ethiopia ear, beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove troop in with crows, as yonder lady o'er her fellow shows:
the measure done, I'll watch her place of  stand
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight,
For I never saw true beauty till this night."

I have never loved before, I know now that what I felt for Rosaline was nothing but lust. Juliet is my one true love.

If I didn't have Juliet then I wouldn't know what love really is. I would still be hung up on Rosaline and still not having a chance with her. I would probably want to die. I wouldn't even want to be hung up on Rosaline. That would be too much! 

Love, is an amazing thing. I desire a girl who loves me, and who wouldn't mind having sex with me. "I have not yet stabbed her with my knife." 

With my other relationships, I have not really been in love. All I wanted from Rosaline was her, and her chastity! 

I need love, that is what I need. If I need to, I will put love before family and friends. She is the one I really need, no one else! 

Romeo~

By:Kat

Mid term

For the first 25%, I am here every day and on time as well. The only time I use my iPod is when we need it and before class starts. I contribute to the class conversations that we have. I do research when I need to, and contribute as much as possible. I have tweeted so far as much as I thought I needed to for Romeo and Juliet. For this section I think I deserve a 25/25. 

For the total assignments handed in, I only handed some in late because I forgot to say that my work was in the comments in the conversation. For the rest of the assignments I have handed them in, and they have been on time too. For this section I think I deserve a 20/25.  

The next section is the quality of my assignments. I put my best effort in my assignments. I put thought into my work and. Don't just rush through it to get it done. My assignments probably aren't as good as others in the class. I'm not that great at english but I try my best some people are better at english. From the blogs that I have read, I think the best that I have read is Chris's. He puts a lot of effort into his assignments, and for our class conversations he has good contributions. My favourite assignment of his that I read was his Tattoo assignment. He seemed to put a lot of effort into it, and it seems like a great tattoo. I could have put more  work into mine, like him. 

For this section I think I deserve a 20/25

For the contributing to classmates and this class, at my table I helped Anu with her google docs literary term. She did not know how to post the link to her post on the Google docs and she was getting worried so I helped her post the link. 

I haven't commented on a lot of people's blogs, but I will definitely start commenting more. I contributeto class   discussions pretty well. I could contribute more, but I think I'm doing pretty good. I think I deserve a 20/25

So right now, out of 100 im at a 85. So I think about 80-85%.