Personally I hate Romeo but here goes. I’ll have to put some in comments probably.
Looking back on boys of his time, Romeo was certainly fit to be his own character; and it’s no wonder it has become synonymous with every idea of romance. Many people seem to regard him in humorous or otherwise negative lights. To them, I ask: who has treated you as he treated Juliet? Who has risked his life for you? Who has composed and spoken words so beautiful to you that, hundreds of years later, people still recite them with the same feeling of love? We forget that Romeo quite literally would, and (spoiler) DID die for Juliet. A man— no, a BOY— whose love is already so great, and whose respect reaches beyond the boundaries of his time, must be applauded. His composition and romance is unparalleled even in modern times, where many women— I tell you, to ask one!— would die to have a man treat her as Romeo treated Juliet. Alright, maybe not die (Juliet was a special case), but you get my point, right? Romeo have his everything and he expressed as well as he could these feelings which bubbled inside of him like overflowing froth. A young man who feels things so strongly, whose emotions— whose reactions— in comparison to others’ are ten times as strong; a young man such as this is a young man who is scarcely found even now, let alone in his time, when violence outweighed romance nine times out of ten. Many people argue Romeo to be overdramatic or prissy, but if one thing can be said for him, it is that he FEELS. Men nowadays hide their emotions, but Romeo did the opposite, and in doing so he showed exactly how much love he had for Juliet. A man, let alone a boy, who is brave enough to go against societal norms and do that, all for the sake of one he loves, is not one to be mocked for his emotions, but rather to be applauded. Argue all you want, but Romeo has rightfully earned himself a name as one of the most romantic men of all time.
