I Have A Thesis- It Could Be Hormones

It is not the feud that directly caused Romeo and Juliet to kill themselves, but rather due to the product of the world they live in which lacks grey area, they couldn’t disentangle life from love, so the options of life without love or life waiting for love did not exist.

Romeo and Juliet…

So I gotta get cracking on this paper at some point. I was talking to Clay (very cool guy, Google him, Clay Robeson, I know him via Buffy Between the Lines) about it this morning, he was telling me about a paper he wrote proposing that Hamlet’s problem was excessive inbreeding. I told him about my paper last semester where I argued that Macbeth was possessed by the name/spirit of the traitorous Thane of Cawdor.

Anyways, my R&J paper is gonna be the easiest topic I can think of- sex and death imagery! Yay! And I got to thinking about their death scene and I came to this conclusion.

Rachel
2:35 PM
Too bad they actually had sex, that scene would be so much cooler if they hadn’t
Clay
2:35 PM
Yeah… no kidding.
Rachel
2:36 PM
I need to go back in time and tell Shakespeare to make them not have sex so I can have something more interesting to say in my paper

You know, with her stabbing herself and him drinking poison from a cup, it would be like they were consumating their marriage… but they screwed already so it doesn’t really work… maybe I can talk about that if in my paper…