Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Video: Romeo and Juliet

The love between Romeo and Juliet was severe, and by the time they were seperated, they probably were feeling mad and severely anxious, as much as the video's German child was. As soon as the couple was seperated, Juliet started crying, not because of Tybalt, but because of Romeo's banishment. Her attitude towards her father also changed: she was not an obedient little girl anymore. The German child in the video was calm and possibly excited for whatever he was going to do with his computer, which could be compared to the moment when Romeo and Juliet were together. Then, whatever the child was doing started to go wrong and wasn't really working out for him, which could be compared to the part where Romeo and Juliet had to be seperated. Then, the child started screaming and destroying his computer, which could be compared to the part where Juliet was all depressed, sad, and disobedient towards her father.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Romeo and Juliet Photo Post


Just like Romeo and Juliet couple, french fries and chilli sauce couple is a wonderful couple. The love between Romeo and Juliet is so pure and beautiful, and the combination of french fries and chilli sauce is just harmonious and delicious. However, they are not meant to be together. Romeo and Juliet themselves were just the most beautiful couple in the world, but the world wouldn't let them be together. It seemed like the couple was never meant to be like that. Fries and chilli sauce themselves are just so great and tasty, but they are to fatty, greasy, and unhealthy, and now they aren't recommended to be eaten. Just like Romeo and Juliet's parents, the people who work for health related jobs wouldn't let them to be together.

The original image is from:

http://krystalist.com/tag/krystal-burger/

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Romeo and Juliet: Act 2

During the Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence agrees do marry Romeo and Juliet. After Romeo and Juliet decides to get married, Romeo visits Friar Lawrence, his counselor, who is also a priest, to ask him if he can marry them. Friar Lawrence accepts his request after making sure that he truly loves her. However, just before Romeo came, Friar Lawrence was picking up plants, saying that any types of plants can be very helpful or deadly depending on their use. This scene is quite interesting because the scene seems pointless and boring, but in fact, the scene could be one of the biggest foreshadow of the whole story.
Like everybody knows, Romeo and Juliet end up dying at the end of the play. When the Friar was talking about the plants, the plants could have two meanings: love, and the actual plants (poison). Romeo is in "true" love with Juliet, and vise versa, however, these two lovers' love, even though it is naturally pure and good, it leads the two couples to death. Also, although I am not hundred percent sure, Juliet gets poison to fake death so she and Romeo can escape. The poison, which possibly is made of some type of plant, was going to be the only key of the continuance of Romeo and Juliet's love. However, just by a little misunderstanding of Romeo, they end up actually drinking the poison and die. Just like Friar Lawrence said, plants, whether they mean love or poison or plants themselves, could be deadly.

Friar Lawrence's plant scene is quite short and I probably won't do anything in that moment (besides asking what kinds of plants they are, just for no reason). However, I can compare the plants' usage to my ordinary life. For example, I love eggs. Eggs are known as one of the healthiest kinds of food, but too much ingestion of egg could be dangerous to your health. Like that, there are lots of things that are naturally good, but that can be bad. It'd be the best way to use things wisely so we don't cause any problems.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Characters of Romeo and Juliet

Out of many characters of the play Romeo and Juliet, the most interesting character for me is Mercutio. Mercutio is a best friend of Romeo, who is funny, intelligent, and a relative of the Prince. By the descriptions, Mercutio seems like a friend who would always help Romeo out when he needed him, cheers him up when he is depressed, and always fun to be around with. In Act 1, scene 4, when Romeo talks about his dream that he had on the way to Capulet's party, Mercutio sort of makes fun of him by telling him that dreams mean nothing. He speaks a long speech about the Queen of Mab, and makes a joke. It was never written in the play, but I could assume that Mercutio was trying to cheer Romeo up and put him in a better mood. Mercutio would look like a person who has a funny natural expression on his face. It'd be just fun to be around with him, or actually be a close friends with him since I know what kind of a friend he would be like by his relationship with Romeo.

Mercutio reminds me of a close friend that I had(have), Keon-ho Kim, back in Korea. He was always fun to be around with and was also a great friend who gave me good advices. Just like Mercutio, he made funny jokes, made me laugh, helped me when I needed a help, and was a great friend of mine.
Mercutio: If love be rough with you, be rough with love.
Even though my friend and I never talked about how love is being rough with me, he certainly gave me good advices on other things. Just like Mercutio and Romeo, him and I were great friends who helped each other out.