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Romeo and Juliet

The Bookening

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Is Juliet Really Just Another?

I feel like she's given. more vulnerability, it's just the play regards her more kindly. She doesn't have a cadre of buffoonish friends that are peeking under the skirts of the nurse lady and being weirdos. Romeo has all that and Juliet's just swept off her feet in a dumb way. But he has to slowly break away at her. He's the one that as soon as he sees her, forgets the other girl. And so she actually has more. I do think there's, she doesn't just throw herself in the same way, right? She has to be wooed. Right?"

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