Conflicts, conflicts, conflict

Throughout the entire play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, conflicts are apparent in the characters, but take many forms.  One of the most important conflicts is a the Person vs. person conflict between Romeo and Juliet's relationship, and their families. Because these families have been feuding for many many years, for their only direct offspring to fall in love with each other is unheard of and revolting. For example in act 2 scene 1 Romeo sneaks to the Capulet party and kisses Juliet, starting the illogical cycle of love between the two and the fury of their parents. This conflict escalates to suicidal thoughts and actions if they can not be together and creates death-like tones and portrays that love is up to the heart to decide and can not be swayed, even my death itself.

This idea is very prominent in society today, with all of the modern music about being in love, and more and more independence being shown though.  This independence and the following of the heart is very valuable to society today as we become more sucked into the world of technology and pop culture, being different and standing up for what you believe in will mend any of the damage done to society by people being robots and believing everything they hear and only following, whether it is right or wrong. This is important to my life as well as many others because doing what your heart tells you usually ends up good, and standing up and going a different way than others before you will make the world a more interesting and better place for everyone. A lot of this depends on personality, but can be acted upon by anyone, all it takes is a strong feeling and bravery.

Romeo and Juliet is everywhere!

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is very similar to Romeo and Juliet in the way that Toula, a Greek woman falls in love with Ian, a non-Greek school teacher, the way that Romeo falls in love with Juliet. Toula's family is strictly Greek and will only let her marry another Greek. Her father trys to set her up with men when he finds out about Ian, like Capulet did with Paris and Juliet. Toula's aunt very similarly resembles Juliets nurse because her aunt helps her go to college and be with Ian, two things that her father strongly disagreed with, like the nurse delivering messages to Romeo. Ians best friend is like Mercutio because he trys to get dates for him before he met Toula. Ians family and Toula's family are very different, but their love brought them together.