In Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, there are many themes and one which includes young love. Shakespeare did a really good job at telling both sides of love. There's doubt confusion and mistakes... Along with happiness joy and sadness. I think that sums up young love well enough.
The first thing I want to talk about are the negative sides of young love. Confusion, sadness, and depression. Confusion could be when you dont know whether someone loves you or not. Sadness can be from unrequited love. Love when you love someone and they don't love you back. Depression cam simply be sadness but magnified. It is worse to know about unrequited love because the more you think about it, the more it hurts. Also mistakes. Alot of young people make mistakes, we all make mistakes and therefore mistakes can lead to bad things. All of those combined can be possibly the worst time of your life. And I think Shakespeare did a wonderful job at making it poetic.
On the other hand, the positive sides of young love can be hopeful, but from what I have read so far in Romeo and Juliet, there weren't too many positive thoughts or actions or feelings. It starts off angry with fighting. It starts off sad with unrequited love. I mean, I'm not surprised being that Romeo and juliet is a story of tragedy with 8 people dying in it. It isnt exactly what I would describe as happy.
But overall Romeo and Juliet is an amazing book so far. It is poetic and the humor is old but I can somewhat understand. Soon I would be able to read his work without being confused. It is sad right now but i hope that it won't be later.
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