Friendships are Important Now and Then

  Friendships are very important in Romeo and Juliet and now because they keep people going and together. Romeo had a lot of friends like Balthazar, Benvolio, and Mercutio. Juliet also had a friendship which was with the Nurse of the Capulet's. The main friendship in this movie was between Romeo and his three best friends. Mercutio and Benvolio who always took care of Romeo no matter what and Balthazar looked up to Romeo like an older brother. This friendship caused a lot of death though, not just between the three of them but towards the Capulet's too. Friendships now are also very important because friends help each other get through tough times. Friendships now and friendships then are very similar.


 Friendships back in the 16th Century were just as important as the friendships now. At the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo was with Benvolio and he was really sad because the girl he loved, Rosaline didn't love him back but Benvolio kept trying to tell him that there are a lot more girls and he should forget about her and find someone else "By giving liberty unto thine eyes.
Examine other beauties." Benvolio was telling Romeo dont just focus on one girl let your eyes wander freely and look at other girls. Benvolio tried to help him get over Rosaline but Romeo was still very sad and depressed. Now friends do the same thing they try to help each other with girl problems and support them through tough times. When you have a friend they can give better confidence like Mercutio giving Romeo confidence to go to the Capulet party when he didn't want to because he was all sad about Rosaline not liking him.


  Even though friendships are important and people need them friendships can turn really bad and in some cases lead to death like throughout Romeo and Juliet. If Mercutio didn't give Romeo confidence to go to the party Romeo wouldn't have met Juliet and they both wouldn't have killed themselves at the end. Mercutio probably wouldn't have died either because Romeo would have fought Tybalt instead of saying he loves him in a family way because he just married Juliet (). Romeo's action was not a friend move because if he was a friend he would of helped Mercutio. Today friendships don't usually lead to death, they might lead to arguing and maybe fights but no one dies. Also with social media and camera's instead of people helping out they will just film the fight.

  Friendships now don't lead to death like they did back in the 16th century. Friends fight all the time but they never try to put each other in danger and kill them. Friends will try to settle it a different way and go back to being friends. Friendships now are very important because friends always got each others back no matter what.


  Friendships are always important, you need them in your life or you'll be very lonely. Friends have your back and will have your back forever. They will support you with relationship problems and any other problems you might have. Friends will help you if you get hurt and help you get through the pain. Friends are one of the most important things in someones life.

My Essay Topic

There are a wide variety of relationships in this play including lovers, marriages, parents/kids, cousins, friendships, and religious. Choose the one that you think best represents the complexity of a modern teenager's relationship and provide quotes from the play that help you connect them to one another. Why do you think the relationships are so similar despite being centuries apart? What do you think Shakespeare would think about current teens? Why? Support your position with research and or examples from the play.

 I am choosing B because of the loving friendship between Mercutio, Benvolio, and Romeo. I think there is a lot behind their friendship, so that is why i am choosing to write an essay on Friendships in Romeo and Juliet.


Argument 1- Friends help each other out at any time and are there for each other.

Argument 2- Friendships can turn really bad and lead to death.

Argument 3- Friendships now are better then friendships during Shakespeare's time.

What is Love? Benvolio's Point of View

 ("Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!") It is unfortunate that Romeo's gentle offer of love is given back by a mean tyrant. I think love can be awesome sometimes but can be a pain sometimes too. Mostly I think love is awesome, it is an amazing thing. You don't have to stay with the same girl all the time either! I don't get why Romeo won't just find another girl there are so many others, he should stop chasing and being sad about Rosaline and just find another girl. I know it must be tough to not be loved by the girl you like but you have to get over it and move on. Marriage is dumb you don't need to get married you can just have sex with a whole bunch of girls not just one. Right now in my life i'm just looking for sex and girlfriends, i'm not really looking for a long relationship, I will worry about that later in my life when i'm ready to get married. I think eventually i will probably get married but right now I don't want to think about it because life right now is awesome and there are a lot of hot girls and i can't just stay with one. That's my opinion on love FGGM.

Mid Term Reflection

 I think I have been good with my attendance. I have only missed two days and that was when I was sick. I am usually on task in class but sometimes I need a reminder. My self regulation is good i'm not always off task. I am mostly in class conversations saying what I think but I sometimes try to hide and not be in them. I am new to twitter and I had no idea how to use it I have kind of got used to it with the help of my twitter partner Arman. I don't really tweet a lot because i'm new to it but ill get better as we get more into the Romeo and Juliet play. I think in the first category I deserve 22%.

When it comes to assignments I have done almost all of them I have published and turned in ten assignments and I think their is only 10 that had to be written in our blogs and turned in. That's not including the literary term that we wrote on Google Docs. I think i deserve 25% in this category.

Some of my assignments I put a lot of effort in but some I kind of didn't. My best assignments were probably the Myers-Briggs personality test write up and the Tattoo assignment. Especially the tattoo assignment i worked really hard on that one. Some of my work is good compared to others and some are really bad compared to others like the opinion on being content and the to a stranger blogs which were probably my worst. I think I deserve 20% in this category.

When the year started i didnt comment on other peoples blogs and i didnt really contribute in class conversations but I have started to comment a lot more in class conversations and others blogs. In this category I think I deserve 15%.

In total I think I deserve 82% in english 10 so far.

Romeo + Juliet Chorus

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

-Two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, both alike in dignity. Dignity meaning 

the quality of being worthy of honor and respect. 

In the beautiful city Verona where this scene is.

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

- An old feud breaks out into a new brutality,

And hands are covered in the blood of their own people

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;

-Children from the two rival families can't be together but do so anyways and commit suicide

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

- Whose sad deaths put an end to the dispute between their families

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

-The frightening passing of their love

And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

-And their parents hatred for each other could not be stopped except by the deaths of their children

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

-In the two hours of the play, if you listen carefully, you will see what was left out of how they tried to fix the problem