Topic One 3-13-06

Tonight’s writing portion of homework is a response to act 5 scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet. On Friday our whole team watched the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet. Now that I know the ending of Romeo and Juliet, I think the dream Romeo has in act 5 scene 2 makes sense.

"I had a dream that my lady came and found me dead."

I now think that Romeo's dream is predicting the future; when Juliet wakes up from her phony death ad finds Romeo him dieing next to her.


I think Romeo would be very anxious as he is buying the poison from the apothecary. If I were Romeo I would nervous knowing within the hour I would be dieing, but also nervous that the cops will find me and would have a much more painful death. I do not think Romeo does the right thing by committing suicide, I think the reason committed suicide is he was so miserable when he heard Juliet was "dead" he felt the only thing he could do is take his own life. Maybe he thought without Juliet there was no point to his life, or if he died he would be with Juliet all the sooner.

I think there were many times when both Romeo and Juliet could have made different choices to avoid there final outcome. Such as marrying eachother, they could have told their parents they loved eachother. Although their parents would be mad at the fact they were in love they probably would not hsve killed both Romeo and Juliet. I guess I personally believe in fate, I believe that you control your life by your own choices.

I was about seven when I first saw a part of the 1996 version of "Romeo and Juliet"; although both my sisters loved this movie I found it very boring. I did not understand what was going on in the movie, mostly beacuase I did not understand what they were saying. At the age of seven I did not have the attention span to sit through 2 hours of something I did not understand. Now that I have read parts of the real play "Romeo and Juliet" I understand the movie much better, and actually enjoyed watching it.