Romeo and Juliet-Genuine or Imaginary
Have you ever read the story of Romeo and Juliet or watched the movie and wondered if Shakespeare based his story on true events? Well, wonder no farther. The story of Romeo and Juliet is not based on actual events. There is no proof that they were ever in existence other than in the pages of Shakespeare. Though there are two houses in Verona, Italy called the Montague and Capulet house, they are just a tourist trap, and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is so close to Arthur Brooke’s Romeus and Juliet it is unreal.
If you have ever searched Romeo and Juliet looking to see if they were ever alive, you find the complete book or scripts for plays, not there biography. Yes, they may be alive on paper, but there is no proof that they were living, breathing people. There was an archeologist, Elena Menotti, who discovered two bodies thought to possibly be Romeo and Juliet “locked in an embrace”(Ariel David) in Mantua, about 25 miles from Verona. They “are believed to have been a man and women, and are thought to have died young, because their teeth were found in tacked” (David) according to Menotti. However, the bodies are believed to be “Buried between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago”(David). That means that they would have lived before Christ.
I can understand how some may be confused as to …show more content…
If you look at Brooke’s story, it says “And then with weeping eyes, he prays his ghostly sire to further and accomplish all their honest hearts’ desire. A thousand doubts and no in th’old man’s head arose” (Brooke). This shows how the Friar is reluctant to marry Romeo and Juliet, but then changed his mind, just like in Romeo and Juliet,“But come young waverer, come, go with me, in one respect I’ll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy
Have you ever read the story of Romeo and Juliet or watched the movie and wondered if Shakespeare based his story on true events? Well, wonder no farther. The story of Romeo and Juliet is not based on actual events. There is no proof that they were ever in existence other than in the pages of Shakespeare. Though there are two houses in Verona, Italy called the Montague and Capulet house, they are just a tourist trap, and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is so close to Arthur Brooke’s Romeus and Juliet it is unreal.
If you have ever searched Romeo and Juliet looking to see if they were ever alive, you find the complete book or scripts for plays, not there biography. Yes, they may be alive on paper, but there is no proof that they were living, breathing people. There was an archeologist, Elena Menotti, who discovered two bodies thought to possibly be Romeo and Juliet “locked in an embrace”(Ariel David) in Mantua, about 25 miles from Verona. They “are believed to have been a man and women, and are thought to have died young, because their teeth were found in tacked” (David) according to Menotti. However, the bodies are believed to be “Buried between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago”(David). That means that they would have lived before Christ.
I can understand how some may be confused as to …show more content…
If you look at Brooke’s story, it says “And then with weeping eyes, he prays his ghostly sire to further and accomplish all their honest hearts’ desire. A thousand doubts and no in th’old man’s head arose” (Brooke). This shows how the Friar is reluctant to marry Romeo and Juliet, but then changed his mind, just like in Romeo and Juliet,“But come young waverer, come, go with me, in one respect I’ll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy