Romeo & Juliet Essay
Love stories now are a lot different than they were before. Most love stories now don’t show love at all; the only things they show are parties, kissing, drinking, sex, and drugs. Old love stories, such as Romeo and Juliet, were about challenges of true love between two rival families.
In love stories before, people wanted to have loving families and children. They wanted to have houses and build farms together. Their love was genuine and true; Romeo and Juliet fell in love in around a week, and they KILLED themselves to be together! Couples were respectable and civil. They stayed in a relationship when they entered it. They grew old together, not having to worry about their partner leaving them at the drop of a dime.
Love stories now show how reckless and meaningless love is at this time period. People can’t even stay in a relationship for more than a few months! They think dating is like renting books out of a library; you borrow a book, then return it back to the shelf to pick up another one. In the movie "Friends with Benifits," that behavior is promoted. One quote from that movie is, "No relationship. No emotion. Just sex." These types of people think of love like a game. They don't take it as something you should be cautious and safe with.
As you can tell, love and love stories have changed drastically in the last century. It used to be something that people cherished and waited for. Now, it’s something that people take for granted and don’t really take seriously. Kids now don't really care what happens to them, they don't think about consequences. One example of this behavior is the saying "Y.O.L.O." which means "You only live once." People take this saying as an excuse for them to do things that you wouldn't normally do, such as losing your virginity at a young age, or cheating on a boyfriend/ girlfriend. Kids use this saying more and more frequently.
These two conflicting images of love can affect the minds of young children. If they see how people act when they “love” each other now, they’re going to grow up even more corrupt than the drunk teenagers that you see on tv today!
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