Theme Of Relatability In Romeo And Juliet

Relatability in books, movies, plays, poems and other forms of entertainment is important. When we read literary text we want to be able to see through the eyes of a character and to have compassion for the character. Even though a piece of text or entertainment can be from hundreds of years ago, it is important the character faces real life experiences that are going to be relevant to the future. Only the greats manage to pull it off. In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet serves as a relatable character to today’s audience because of her actions, feelings, and faults.
Juliet feels nobody in the world could live up to Romeo and that her passion for him is something she can not live without. Juliet’s short lived, but very