blog #3

 My basic knowledge about the story of Romeo and Juliet is that both are teenagers and fell in love at one sight to each other. However unfortunately, the relationship between two households is extremely unpleasant. Thus, Romeo and Juliet fervently loved each other, but the story ended up in tragedy. They killed themselves because of each other which I thought it was kind of ridiculous.

My first impression of Act 1 was craziness of the world where Romeo and Juliet live and pity for them. I could feel that Romeo and Juliet are the biggest two victims of the extremely insane world which is made by their rich parents and guess why they fell in love to each other so fast. In Act 1, I  could find Romeo's childish characteristic. When he have conversation with his uncle, he mentions about his lover and says "If my eyes ever lie to me like that, let my tears turn into flames and burn them for being such obvious liars! A woman more beautiful than the one I love? The sun itself has never seen anyone as beautiful since the world began." This part shows how Romeo is a babe in the woods. Also Romeo always talks about love and wonders about it, therefore I could assume that Romeo is in lack of love and that's the reason why he fell love with Juliet.

 Act 1 scene 5 is the scene that mostly shows characteristics of Romeo and Juliet by their first meeting. First Romeo falls in love with Juliet at one sight even though he had his previous lover Rosaline. When he starts to talk to Juliet, he talks like flirting genius. Every word from those two teenagers made me feel that they are the perfect match to each other. Their actions toward each others were very straight forward and feisty without any anxiety or fear. It also means that they always have been desiring for the love.