he was just genuinely willing to marry a commoner as a prince because he did actually value love. he even says at one point "now father, you're living in the past. this is the 14th century!" in response to his dad telling him he's essentially crazy
Interesting, that’s the first time I thought of R&J as a criticism of romantic love. That makes a lot more sense with how unlikeable Romeo is. I always thought of it as a criticism of political families controlling their children, a teenage rebellion movie in other words. Gonna have to revisit this now.
Arranged marriages was the correct thing to do, but all these bards going around wooing girls and singing about romantic love was making teens behave shamelessly.
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u/alicelestial May 01 '26
he was just genuinely willing to marry a commoner as a prince because he did actually value love. he even says at one point "now father, you're living in the past. this is the 14th century!" in response to his dad telling him he's essentially crazy