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Romeo And Juliet's Relationship

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What makes a good relationship? It is the question every person in a relationship asks themselves, and sometimes it is not easy to tell. In Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, the main characters, Romeo and Juliet fall in love and get married, even though their parents are sworn enemies. In the end, through confusion, and miscommunication they both end up committing suicide. In Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the main character George and Lennie are best friends and they go looking for work, except Lennie isn’t very smart and causes lots of trouble for George to deal with. At the end of the book Lennie causes a major problem, and when he is on the run George kills him. Romeo and Juliet have a better relationship because: they both …show more content…

Unlike George and Lennie, Romeo and Juliet both agree on what they want their life to be like together. When Romeo goes to see Juliet after they first meet he says, “Th’ exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine” (Shakespeare 2.2.134). Romeo says this after Juliet asks him what he wants from her. What he says is a question. He is asking for her input, and he wants her to have some say in the decisions that he makes. Juliet later responds to his question stating, “If that thy bent of love be honorable, / Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, / By one that I’ll procure to come to thee” (Shakespeare 2.2.150-152). Juliet asks Romeo if he is sure that he wants to marry her. She wants to have their marriage be something they both want to do, something they both have a say in. Romeo and Juliet both agree to get married. It is a shared decision that they both decide on. On the other hand, George and Lennie’s relationship is very unbalanced, George has more say and is always telling Lennie what to do and not letting him help in any of the decisions that they make together. When Lennie is holding a mouse, George yells at him: “Awright,’ he [says] brusquely. ‘Gi’me that mouse!” (Steinbeck 8). Instead of letting Lennie have the mouse, he makes the decision for him. He does not let him have a say, making their relationship …show more content…

Juliet is very trusting of Romeo when the nurse comes back from meeting with Romeo about the marriage. Juliet is fully trusting of Romeo that he was not joking when he said he wants to get married. Juliet says, “What says he of our marriage?” (Shakespeare 2.5.50). She trusts that Romeo really did go to the meeting, and that he really does love her. Juliet is also trusting of Romeo again when she invites him to stay the night at her house. She invites him in even though she knows that he killed her cousin. For all the reader could have known, Romeo wanted to murder all of the capulets. Juliet trusts him, and really wants to spend their final night together. The nurse says to Romeo in the Friar’s cell in way of delivering Juliet’s message, “ My lord, I’ll tell my lady you will come” (Shakespeare 3.3.171). Juliet would not have invited Romeo over is she didn’t trust him. Whilst Romeo and Juliet were not perfect, George and Lennie had a very unequal relationship. Throughout the book we saw that George had no trust for Lennie and believed that he would eventually mess up and have to go hide in the brush, “Course you did. Well, look. Lennie — if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush.” (Steinbeck 15). George clearly states that he believes that Lennie will mess up, he has no trust in him. Some people might say that Lennie

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