![]() ![]() I never really thought about it like that, maybe because we take it for granted that the choice of our partner is entirely ours. I found myself focussing much more on the freedom to love whoever you want instead of going with your parent’s pick. Have you ever reconnected with a story before that had left a lasting impression on you at some point in your past? In my case, my perspective on the two has changed dramatically. This recent version differs from the classic in the style of language and also the plot in a few details. Just recently, ten years later, I had another encounter with the passionate lovers, when I found the new audiobook edition of Romeo ad Juliet by Audible. ![]() I focussed on the young love, and the question: what if. Never mind the detail that Romeo and Juliet’s love ended after only a week and with a trail of dead. Still, I was longing for wild, passionate, irrepressible love, the kind of love only Shakespeare could have captured. ![]() Didn’t dream of ending up like them, of course. At the time I read the story I was only slightly older than Juliet, and dreamed of the kind of love that bound those two characters together. “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a Montegue, what is Montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.”Ī long time ago, I remember it clearly, I read Romeo and Juliet. ![]()
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