Romeo And Juliet Outdated Love Marriage

Today families do not fight about power and arrange marriages for their children it is not the same as it used to be from centuries ago. In Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” the town and the two families evolve around power and money as well as arranged marriages. Romeo and Juliet’s story is not relevant to the contemporary audience because it simply does not relate to most of today’s society due to outdated power, arranged marriages, as well as being mellow dramatic.
The play cannot relate to the outdated power because it’s not the same as today’s power. Throughout the play it can be seen how Romeo and Juliet come from two powerful families. Capulet, Juliet’s and Montague, Romeo’s father have shown, “Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word

Arranged marriage was a big idea in “Romeo and Juliet” and how the Capulets wanted Juliet to marry Paris. Capulet at first is hesitant and says, “My child is yet a stranger in the world, She hath not seen the change of fourteen years; Let two more summers wither in their pride Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride” (1.2.8). Regardless of this statement that Capulet says most families cannot relate to this because most families don’t think about arranged marriages for their children. Even though Capulet gets hesitant about Juliet getting married he finally says to Paris, “But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; My will to her consent is but a part” (1.2.16). In reality no parent would tell a person to go woo their child so they can get married. Out of an arranged marriage all the Capulets would be receiving is more power which is

Both Romeo and Juliet both strongly represent mellow drama and strong emotion. When Juliet learns she has to marry Paris she becomes very dramatic about it and says to Friar Lawrence, “Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man- in his shroud- Things that, to hear them told have made me tremble- And I will do it without fear or doubt, to live an unstain’d wife to my sweet love” (4.1.85). In the hope that Friar Lawrence will give Juliet this remedy she becomes very mellow dramatic which most people in today’s time do not do to get something they want. Not only is Juliet mellow dramatic but so is Romeo. When he learns that Juliet is “dead” he states, “Well Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night”(5.1.36). To put it differently Romeo is going to kill himself because he can’t live without Juliet. Nonetheless this shows how mellow dramatic people most likely were centuries ago and how people today can not relate to