#romeo and juliet
“In the early moments of their love, Romeo and Juliet seek to mold social reality to their changed perceptions and desires by manipulating the verbal signifiers of that reality. But between Romeo’s banishment and their deaths, both learn in different ways that not the word but the spirit can change reality. Juliet becomes a woman and Romeo a man not through changing a name but by action undertaken in a transformed sense of the self requiring courage and independence.”— Coppélia Kahn, Coming of Age in Verona.(viashakespeareismyjam)
“Converted by the sight of the lovers and the revelation of their heroic fidelity, Capulet offers his hand to Montague, sealing the bond of marriage between the two families in a dowry of love, not gold. Both families are bereft of an heir, and the exchange of promises that each father shall erect a statue of the other’s child, in gold, symbolizes the alchemical transmutation of worldly wealth, property, earth, into the spiritual riches of the heart and the imagination. When the play ends the image of the lovers lying side by side remains in the mind’s eye, the passionate speed of young love commemorated already in sculpture, an art which is free from the dimension of time. The youth of the lovers is made immutable, the violence and darkness in their story absorbed in the golden, still image.”— Brian Gibbons, in his introduction to Romeo and Juliet.(viaarisefairsun)
When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he,
Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!
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“Ο κόσμος αλλοίωσις, ο βίος υπόληψις.”
“World is decay, life is perception.”
Some of ya’ll didnt cry over wendy and peter pan and have a romeo and juliet level impact from that cartoon tragic love story and it shows-
Wendy and Peter Pan did to me what Romeo and Juliet tried to do.
The fact that I can’t have you makes me want you even more.
I don’t know you, so I make up the wildest stories about you and me…
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In my dream, I feel the vibrating sunrays broadcasting glowing molecules through the rooms. They draw me with mighty power into their circle like a pack of elven spirits, tearing my arms, laughing and singing. Pulling me outside into the free air under the blue sky, I can no longer resist …
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⛸Fav Hanyu Moves⛸
#5 (Besti) Squat
Not sure if this is actually a move (but I think it’s called a Besti Squat)
Anyway, look at how he adds so much power and artistry with this move
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⛸Fav Hanyu Moves⛸
#3 Biellmann Spin
Yuzu’s flexibility is too good to be real (BUT IT IS REAL)
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I wish they would make this movie again but literally nobody speaks, ever.
Still thinking about the kid who asked “Wait, Paris is a GUY??” When we were reading romeo n juliet
Iconic
Paris is now a lesbian the guy in my english class has decreed it
The whole reason adaptations of Romeo and Juliet don’t work is wrapped up in the first line of the show.”
“Two houses, both alike in dignity –”
That’s it. That’s the entire point. The Montagues and the Capulets are both rich, noble families. They’re on equal footing with each other. Both are frivolous and careless in that specific manner that only the generationally wealthy can be. The show and its message only work if both parties are equally rich and careless. If you try to translate it into any other context (Juliet is an heiress and Romeo is a punk, etc) you may have a good story, but you lose the entire point that Romeo and Juliet hinges upon. You may have a perfectly good story in its own right, but that story is no longer Romeo and Juliet.
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