Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Romeo and Juliet: The Happy Ending

So Romeo has heard of Juliet’s death. He rushes to her tomb where his worst fears are confirmed. He draws his dagger, tears streaming down his cheeks. He raises it, as Juliet awakens. She screams, catches his hand in the nick of time. They embrace. Each feels ecstatic.
The Capulets are so overjoyed at the news of their daughter’s new life, that they end the feud with the Montagues. The couple re-marry, and everyone shares their utter happiness. The two move in together, nice place, lots of space. Not long ‘til a kid comes along.
Lord Capulet passes away. He leaves nothing to the happy couple; turns out he never really did forgive the Montagues. Bad blood rises once more between the families. The young couple leave the city and make themselves a new home.
Later that year, the Montague family are involved with some tax evasion offences. Declare bankruptcy. The couple are ruined. Romeo has to get a job; he hates it, but it’s worth it to keep the wife and child he loves so dearly alive.
He gets home one day to find no dinner on the table. Hungry and irritable, he moans at his love. She snaps back and it escalates into a shouting competition. Later they both sheepishly apologise and carry on as normal. They vow never to argue again.
A few weeks later Romeo is searching for his old rapier; questions his lady. She explains how she threw “that rusty old toy” away. Romeo explodes - the argument rages for hours. That evening, embarrassed, they both act like nothing happened.
Not long after, Romeo, on his way home from the job he loathes, is accosted by a young man who asks for some spare change. Grudgingly, Romeo gets out his wallet. The man grabs at it, but Romeo pushes him down with ease. As he turns to walk away, four much larger men step out from an alleyway. Three of them hold him as the other two beat and rob him. He is shown sympathy from Juliet when he arrives home, but she soon gets tired of his self-pity. Accusing him of being self-absorbed, she kick-starts a chain reaction of built-up irritations, and the worst quarrel yet emerges. The next few days are as normal, but with a distinct air of bitterness.
Romeo takes a much needed holiday and visits some of his family for a few days. However his welcome is worn out sooner than expected, and he heads home two days early. His curtains are drawn, and he enters the house suspiciously. The slamming door causes scuffles from the bedroom. He opens the door with apprehension, only to be staring at another man in his bed. But the man is not alone.
After a three-day-long argument, Juliet leaves Romeo’s life with the only person to never betray him; the six month old child. Juliet gets a job to survive.
Much of Romeo’s wages are put towards his local pub’s profit.
She is abandoned by the child she was too busy to love.
Both die alone and unhappy.

The moral of the story: kill yourself when you are happy to avoid a life of misery, because in the end, everyone fucks you over.

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not EVERYONE fucks you over.
how many times must i say?
There are those who fuck others over and there are those who will spend their lives being fucked over and will never fuck anyone over in return.

^That sounds like a saying-but its not, unless anyone wants to use it and say "its a saying by wise old Jordana"
HOORAY to being fucked over! at least some of us can be happy we;re not cruel pieces of shite.
xxxxxxx


(also if romeo and juliet tried sorting out their problems this would have never happened-if they also waited til they were older than 14, then im positive they could have sorted it out as Romeo would know if his lover was a bitch with wandering legs.

GD said...

I like how this is all the woman's fault.

Anonymous said...

nice story.

though greg highlights a good point.

i'd say that when romeo returned to venice to visit the old family he probably bumped into rosaline again, now somewhat older, more voluptuous, and less virginal, and the fickle sod decided he'd like a bit of variety after so long couped up with the sickeningly devoted juliet, thinking that she'd never find out. too bad that loud-mouthed nurse was still around.

then again, any marriage that takes place within only a day of the couple knowing eachother is doomed.

Anonymous said...

p.s. romeo drinks poison. juliet's the one who stabs herself.

Tom said...

Nice ending. I've got one:

Romeo buys two Desert Eagles from his local gun retailer, and a whole load of ammo. Bursting into the Capulet's mansion, he dispatches each member of the rival family one by one, with point blank headshots.

Covered in blood, and brains, he travels to the Montague's mansion to discuss family values. However, rather than indulge in idle chit-chat, Romeo goes beserk with his new found 'fuck family' attitude. He takes Lord Montague's rusty double barrelled shotgun and makes mince meat out of his dearly beloved relatives.

Juliet awakens. She's in hell. It turned out that the Friar had been jealous of Romeo and Juliet's relationship all along, and had purposely given Juliet a heavy dose of poison to guzzle down. The devil whips her into a frenzy.

After a massive shoot-out with the police, Romeo is eventually taken down and arrested. He is sentenced to death, by lethal injection.

Romeo and Juliet are reunited in hell. The devil realises that they know each other, and as an eternal torture, he moulds the back of their heads together, cuts off their limbs, cuts out their tongues, and blinds and deafens them. This way, they will always be together, but cannot ever communicate any sign of affection or love etc.

The devil loves this and he revels in it.

The end.

Anonymous said...

Jack, u r sucha miserable git sumtimes & Tom ur sucha sick fuck.... (tho slightly amusing)! & I'd like to agree with lav & Greg as the 1st thing I also noticed was that everything's the female's fault! I'm disappointed in u Jack- presenting Romeo as the alpha male, getting a job, supporting his family, suffering misfortune while his 'whore-bitch' (thanx again tom) wife is all un-sympathetic, cooks the dinner badly & shags around & leaves him!!

All in all I hav to say i understand the point u wer tryin to make with this blog but i don't like this blog AT ALL!!!

but i do like u lol
xXx

Tom said...

Yeah Jack you miserable arselord why don't you write about something a tad more jovial?!

Jack said...

Fuck you, Ariege! That's the last time I write a nice blog about you!
Not that I need to justify myself, but I'm clearly not presenting Romeo as the alpha-male, fucking think about it: he has a job he hates, his woman fucks him over, he gets beat up... What do you think I was trying to get at? Jesus.
Calling it dire? Saying it sucks? That's just fucking rude.

Fuck you all. And by "you all" I mean Ariege, and Hauwa to a lesser extent. I still love you both but I'm genuinely hurt that you didn't criticise constructively.

GD said...

:'(

Jack said...

(U)

Anonymous said...

I think, I THINK he is metaphorically writing a blog about his own life and maybe making a dig at a certain someone....Come on guys. U lot can be awfully stupid sometimes.

Especially Tom.

Anonymous said...

and Jack....you're such a drama queen

Anonymous said...

i think basically everyone get's the subtext, but writing a comment on that would be pointless. the fact that this entry has made people write something more than "i agree/disagree" is a compliment in itself. metaphorical pieces are supposed to be open to interpretation. focusing on the most obvious and core issue portrayed is something we did back in year two. it's all about rationalising to your own perspective now. it's called thinking outside the box.

GD said...

None of this is "outside the box". Except Tom, who brought the awesome to the fullest degree.

Anonymous said...

i think you'll find that thinking 'inside the box' involves looking at something only from the perspective of the author/creator. thus when more thought and analysis is attributed to something, and consequently a different or new perspective considered, it counts as thinking 'outside the box'. sure it's far easier to recognise this in an extreme abstract interpretation (i.e. tom) but any conclusion made from the internal debate of several perspectives counts as thinking 'outside the box'. the phrase doesn't merely refer to extremes, but to any interpreting process that does not take a thing at face value.

Anonymous said...

i quite liked that little story- well done

maiyanne (the jew)

..still forgotton that damned password..i hate being anonymous.. i feel so so so..dirty

Tom said...

Thanks Greg for the support! Fuck everyone else who were not in the slightest bit appreciative of my writing genius.

Especially you anonymous, or should I say ... MATT.

You arselord. You will die a slow, slow death involving dildos and maggots. Burn in hell Matt you toss-stick. Matt = Overlord of the Mongolian Ladder.

Fuck you all except Greg. And Maiyanne.

Love you all xx

Jack said...

I liked yours, Tom, it's just not shocking coming from you anymore is all.
xxxxxxxxxx

Tom said...

Yeah, it's good. I like it.

Jack said...

"Don't ya know there's no devil? It's only God when he's drunk."

GD said...

"The book of Mormon is pretty much Bible fan fiction - like Dante and Milton".

I'm pretty angry right now, so here's some criticism from an EngLit wanker perspective:

My initial statement of "I like how it's all the woman's fault" wasn't a sarcastic finding of fault, rather an expression of my amusement at the misogyny present: the only thing i like about this story.

Granted, i haven't read/seen Romeo and Juliet (properly anyway), but it's already a tragedy: everything is set up for the fall and the ending is logical and perfect (ie, like all good fiction, everyone dies). There's a cadence there and to fuck around with it in a way which reads like a trite soap opera plot completely rapes it of literary value.

Subtext doesn't really count as subtext when it's as subtle as a fistfuck.

xxxx

Anonymous said...

mormons, mormons, mormons, me and ariege arent real mormons anyway
gaaar im sick of all this mormon feminism talk.
whats it gotta do with romeo and juliet?
yeaaah juliet dies unhappy, romeo should get with the foxy nurse
xxxxxxxxxxxxx

GD said...

I like you much more for admitting you're not "real" mormons. But very few religious people are "real" anything really. Real. Really. Real. xxxxx