obsessionisaperfume:

penfairy:

widewonderworld:

penfairy:

romeo and juliet were just kids making dumb decisions in an impossible situation, why criticise them when u could lay the blame on the grown ass adults who let the younger generation carry on their pointless feud, to the point where they’d created such a toxic hateful environment that it was viscerally unsafe for their children to experience the pangs of first love

-William Shakespeare

I mean – I like this little comment because yeah, this really was Shakespeare’s hot take on the R&J story. R&J had been told dozens of times before Shakey came along and had a crack at it, and the moral of the story was traditionally “children beware the perils of lust and see what happens when you disobey your parents.” It was really meant as a cautionary tale that you should always be obedient and dutiful to your parents.

The way Shakey tells it, you get an ending where the Prince berates the Capulets and the Montagues, saying:

Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!
See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!

By contrast, Shakespeare says is the moral of the story is holy fuck, you grown ass adults need to get your fucking shit together. Your pointless hatred led to love (not disobedience!) being the death of your children. The moral of the story is your children WOULD BE ALIVE NOW IF YOU DIDN’T CREATE SUCH A HATEFUL AND DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENT FOR THEM TO GROW UP IN. 

A plague o’ both your houses.

OH MY GOD THANK YOU.