The Third Part of Romeo and Juliet

Excitement, excitement! What's going to happen? Somehow I feel the ending wouldn't have felt so obvious if they hadn't pointed it out in the beginning. (Okay, duh) What I mean is, I don't think I would expect them  to die in the end if it wasn't the best known love story in history. And I'm still sort of hoping it won't happen. But then again, there wasn't really any other way to fix the fight between the two families. So sad, so sad. A lot of bad things happened. Mercutio died, poor guy, and Romeo gets mad and ends up killing  Tybalt, and that gets him shoved out of Verona. Mercutio was weird and sort of frightening, but I think it's still a little for him to die. It's all sort of painful to read, really.

Then Juliet's parents decide that in a few days she's going to marry Paris. I love how Juliet reacts. Of course, she's really upset that her parents would do anything, but she covers everything so well. She's crying for 'Tybalt', which she was upset about at first, but then she decided that she needed to side with her husband, even though he was the person who killed him. I think she probably realized that it would be hard to hate Romeo, anyway. But then she says "I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear/ It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,/ Rather than Paris. These are news indeed!" I laughed at this, because it seems so obvious, but it really isn't for her mom. It seems like Romeo would be a weird person to bring up, but since she's 'crying about Tybalt', who was killed by Romeo, it's not strange. I still think it's strange how well Romeo fits as being hated by her, and then she says she would rather marry him than Paris. (Little does her mother know she's already married) How much I love Juliet.

Other than that, the story wasn't especially cheerful. We find out Romeo is jealous of the mice that will get to be with Juliet when he can't. Poor Romeo. I did always feel a little bit like the Capulets were the 'bad' people and the Montagues are 'good'. It's hard to love Tybalt, so I don't blame Juliet for not being that sad. It would be sad to know your cousin died, and you would generally be mad at the killer, but how do you excuse his killing Mecrutio without sort of excusing Romeo? At first Juliet is really upset that Tybalt died, and mad at Romeo, but then she sort of drops the anger and realizes it will be more painful to be without him. (She never really did see him as the murderer sort of guy) I feel like I should be angry that Romeo was so irrational to fight Tybalt and kill him, but I also feel like it would be hard to see your close friend die.

Well, anyway, I am still wishing that maybe everyone will live and Mercutio comes back to life. And that everyone will be happy and that Juliet's dad will realize that Paris is not the best person to marry. If only everything could end up happy.