yeah Romeo and Juliet suuucks they should’ve both survived at the end and lived happily ever after instead. but of course the writer kills them both off for shock value.
They also should've been garden gnomes
‘A good tragedy is always both preventable and inevitable’ is one of my main hills to die on. It’s literally so important to me. I’m fucking correct
call me hamlet the way people only know me for my monologuing and homosexuality
me personally I like to imagine Claudius killed his brother in the first place because he came across a group of witches who told him that he’d be king someday and he took it from there. I also like to imagine that there’s just a coven of witches that hangs around Europe telling unstable and violent men in positions of power that they’re soon to be king just to see what happens. they’re pot stirrers
as i’ve mentioned, the thesis of my essay is basically that rosencrantz and guildenstern have the free will needed to escape the narrative of the play, but they fail to do so because of external factors.
one of the main factors, particularly for guil, is their need for directions. our protagonists don’t know what to do with themselves when there isn’t another character telling them what they’re “supposed to” do next. they both respond to this uncertainty with confusion, but guil in particular becomes very anxious when he doesn’t have directions.
in act 1, when they are trying to remember where they’re going and why, guildenstern gets stressed out by the fact that they have been left to their own devices: “We have not been . . . picked out . . . simply to be abandoned . . . set loose to find our own way. . . . We are entitled to some direction. . . . I would have thought.” guil seems somewhat aware that they have been “picked out” as the focus on the play, and therefore feels “entitled” to be given instructions on what to do.
guildenstern feels better knowing what will happen to them beforehand, even if it’s not going to be pleasant, because at least then he isn’t going in blind.
Everyone, we can fix Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet if we just switch the leads.
Romeo wakes up in Hamlet's body and meets the ghost of "his" father telling him to kill his uncle. So if course Romeo just fucking does it, because he never considers consequences, and then gets onto more important shit, like romancing Ophelia, political fallout be damned! But given that he's the son of the murdered king, he'd probably end up on top.
Hamlet wakes up as Romeo and is told that he can't marry the love of his life because his family hates her family. Instead of killing Tybalt and getting Merucio murdered, he's planning elaborate meet-cutes for the two warring families. He's putting on plays about blood feuds and how to overcome them. He either succeeds in bringing the families together or bores Juliet enough with his indecision that the glow wears off and she moves on; both positive options. Everybody lives.
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