How about it, Sam? Are you ready to kiss and make up?
Iâll kiss. I donât know about making up.
WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942) dir. George Stevens
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If Romeo and Juliet had taken it slow nothing at all would have changed. Juliet is aware that they are being too hasty (âAlthough I enjoy in thee, / I have no joy of this contract tonight. / It is too rash, to unadvised, too sudden. / Too like the lightning which doth cease to be / Ere one can say âit lightens!â) And yet she pops the question only a few lines later, and thank god she did.
If she had actually left Romeo âunsatisfiedâ in the balcony sceneâif she had decided that they should wait before considering marriage, it wouldnât have changed the fact that Tybalt would have looked for Romeo the next day. Romeo would have been banished anyway, because the tragedy isnât caused by Romeo and Julietâs precipitate love: it is caused by the violence, the hatred, and the prejudice of the feud.
A slower development of their relationship wouldnât have saved Romeo from banishment. And a slower development of their relationship wouldnât have changed the fact that Capulet sold Juliet to Paris. She would have had to marry him anyway. The only difference would have been that if she werenât married to Romeo, but still in love with him, I doubt that Friar Laurence would have agreed to help her escape. Why bother breaking the rules, hurting Julietâs parents by faking her death, just because Juliet didnât feel like doing her duty? She would have had only two options left: either unwanted marriage or death. Looking at her words right after meeting Romeo, she seems determined to choose a husband on her own, or otherwise she will have none of it. (âIf he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed.â)
And if they just hadnât fallen in love at all, I believe it would have been the same: Romeo would have been banished and, without Julietâs help, I doubt he would have survived long. Heâs just not good at coping with pain and oppressionâhe needs affection. He needs people to take care of him. I think he would have ended up killing himself anyway, because he is terrified by the concept of isolation. (Or perhaps if he had never even attended Capuletâs party, he wouldnât have had to fight Tybalt the day after. Perhaps he could have survived for a whileâbut how long? Look at Benvolio. He ended up unwillingly fighting Tybalt in the first scene. How long would it have taken for Romeo to take part in a fight? I think the point of the play is that they just canât elude the feud, no matter how hard they try: it drags everyone down sooner or later.)
And if they hadnât fallen in love at all, Juliet would have never become the powerful, intelligent, lively girl we know. She would have been this docile daughter who allows her parents to command her life: âIâll look to like, if looking liking move, / But no more deep will I endart mine eye / Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.â Now compare those lines with the way she speaks in the balcony scene. (âBondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud, / Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies / And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine / With repetition of âmy Romeo!ââ, âMy bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee / The more I have, for both are infinite.â) She feels limitless. She feels free. But looking at Parisâ attitude in the friarâs cell, I think she would have been very miserable had she ended up marrying him. He just couldnât care less about her feelings and opinions.
Yes, Romeo and Juliet behaved hastily, and Iâm glad they did, because at least they could be happy and free for just a few days before the despotism of their society devoured them.
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