Romeo and Juliet Essay

     In Romeo and Juliet, I noticed that they way Romeo and Juliet are raised affects the way they act.  There are many specific example of this through out the story but a huge general one is when the Montagues and Capulets complain about who is more superior, and the children over hear, they feel more superior to the other family and feel like they cannot express there love towards each other to their parents. 
     I noticed that Romeo and Juliet must've grown up with the thoughts that there family is better.  I can interpret this because Romeo says, when he first sets eyes on Juliet, "Is she a Capulet? O dear account!/  My life is my foes debt." (1.5.131-132).  This lets me know that by seeing and falling in love with Juliet, Romeo already knows it will be an issue to have the two families intermingle.  It seems like Romeo is breaking rules just so he can "happily" be in love.  But is it really happy if they cannot make there love public and be accepted? 
     Lady Capulet also tells Juliet who to love.  She often discusses with Juliet and the nurse of marriage and being in love with Paris.   "Marry, that "marry" is the very theme/ I came to talk of. - Tell me, daughter Juliet,/ How stands your disposition to be married?"  (1.3.86-70)  In this quote, Lady Capulet says how marriage is such a happy thing and asks Juliet what her stand on being married is.  By this, I feel like Juliet's mom is imposing that Juliet should marry soon and hopefully marry someone like Paris.  I feel that by saying how much of a happy time she thinks marriage is, it will be hard for Juliet to say something along the lines of "No I do not want to marry now."  But she does, because Juliet, on the other hand, is not looking forward to getting married and responds to her mom "It is an honor that I dream not of."  (1.3.71).  It means that she doesn't want to get married.  I think that this can affect the way Juliet acts because by already saying no to her mom, and disobeying her mom makes her already like a rebel, and makes her mom feel weaker and Juliet feel stronger.
     In Romeo and Juliet, the nurse and Juliet have a very strong relationship.  I feel like the nurse is more of a mother to Juliet than Lady Capulet is.  I feel this because the nurse knows more about Juliet than  Lady Capulet does, as well as the nurse has more time to spend around Juliet, and one last thing is that Juliet was practically raised by the nurse.  For example, the nurse states "Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed." (1.3.65) The nurse is proposing that she was always there for Juliet and she nursed her and loved her and cared for her.  The nurse also knows about the marriage proposal between Romeo and Juliet.  "Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence' cell./ There stays a husband to make you a wife./ Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks;/ They'll be in scarlet straight at any news/ Hie you to church" (2.5.73-77)  The nurse says this to Romeo.  She is saying how Juliet wants to marry you and how the nurse knows how much they're in love.  Juliet sent the nurse to go get a message from Romeo.  Once she gets the message, the nurse teases Juliet and refuses to tell her for a while.  Eventually, she delivers the message which was discussing the marriage further.  Once the nurse knew about Romeo and Juliet getting married, she didn't tell Lady Capulet.  I thought this was interesting.  I thought this because the nurse is supposed to be loyal and respect the Capulets' orders and listen to them.  But she is sneaking around Lady Capulet's back and helping Juliet with something she knows is forbidden.  I think she did this because of her mother-daughter relationship with Juliet.  Maybe she also knows that Paris is not the right guy for Juliet but Romeo is. 
     In conclusion, I noticed that Romeo and Juliet have to sneak around to see each other.  This is because thye know there love is forbidden and there families will not deal with the two intermingling.  An example of when the two are sneaking around is the balcony scene.  Romeo sneaks onto Juliets' balcony and proposes.  Both the Montagues and Capulets were not aware of the couples engagement.  Another place where Romeo and Juliet had to sneak around is the night when Romeo was banished.  Lady Capulet was not aware that they spent the night together.  All of these examples prove that the negative way Romeo and Juliet are parented affects the way the two act and rebel. 

Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark *Contains Some Spoilers*

This week, I read a very intriguing book by Mary Higgins Clark.  It was about two telepathic twins that got kidnapped on there 3rd birthday and the kidnapper wants an 8 million dollar ransom.  Steve, the father, pays the ransom but only one child is returned and the kidnapper (still anonymous) said that the other twin has died tragically and is dumped into the ocean.  Since the twins are telepathetic, the twin reunited with her parents, Kelly, can feel that her sister, Kathy, is still alive and is very very scared. 

I thought that this was a very scary book but not in a gross way, it was almost like you were scared for Kathy's survival and wanted to know what happened.

Something I noticed was how Mary Higgins Clark made the twins so young but made them have such an important part in Kathy's survival.  For example, Kelly was getting the feeling that Kathy needed help and wasn't actually dead.  The problem was that only the mother believed her daughter.  Not even Steve or the police.  I can see how that makes sense because she is a 3 year old girl. 

Eventually, the FBI and the police and all of the official people, decided to listen to Kelly since Kathy has been gone for so long.  But, I'm not going to say what happens at the end because then it'll ruin the whole book.

All in all, I thought that Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark was a great book that had the plot going until the end of the book.  I would recommend this to anyone who likes mysteries.