Eclipse question

Romeo and Juliet All the Way!!!! sorry stephenie, shakespear has outdone you!
shakespeare is qouted in some of the twilight books anyway!

I feel like they are both the same in some ways, but if I had to pick I would pick Twilight.

twilight because stephanie meyer cares about the characters more than shakespeare did (oh and i did know that he was a legend). Stephanie Meyer is actually the best.

Twilight because they didn't die and they got to live happily ever after.

I think that the thing that makes them both the same is that somewhere in their subconscious minds, they were attracted to each other because they know they could never be together.

They like the "forbidden" aspect of their relationship.

Um, compared to the rest of Shakespeare's work, Romeo and Juliet is not all that impressive.

While i like both Romeo & Juliet and Twilight, I was more entertained by Twilight, and if given a choice between the two, i would choose Twilight.

I'd much rather enjoy the book I'm reading than be seen as "cultured" by other people.

There's no contest. Anything by Shakespeare.

Does anyone seem to get that Romeo and Juliet is not a romance?

It is a tragedy. It is NOT a romance. Shakespeare wrote it to say, "omg look at these stupid teenagers, they fell in love so fast, aren't they so shallow and moronic?" He wasn't trying to say, "LOOK AT ME THIS IS TWOO WUV IT IS AWESOME!!!"

He was being satirical. The main point of Romeo and Juliet was to show the utter stupidity Shakespeare saw in teenage love. It shows that love sometimes does not conquer all, and that sometimes while you might think you're in love with your eternal soul mate, you're really just going through an extreme case of hormones.

The more Stephenie Meyer compares her work to Romeo and Juliet, the more she bashes her own books, because she's basically saying that Bella and Edward are just as shallow and stupid as R&J.

Ugh. I can't stand Romeo and Juliet. I much prefer A Midsummer's Night Dream.

I'd go for Twlight, because once upon a time, I actually liked it. Not so much now.

ROMEO AND JULIET!!!

Romeo and Juliet. But Twilight is a good love story. I love both authors..

i think we shouldn't be comparing between the two books and no offence there is no similarity between them .
R&J is one of the greatest book in century it tragic love story that died
and well twilight is a lot different from every book i ever read about romance and i think you could say that twilight fit in fiction category and i think that the author of twilight show the characters are shallow and care about the appearance than the personality

Hamlet. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Anyway. One thing I will give Twilight in this fight, is the fact that it succeeded in inspiring a younger generation to read. I would hope that would continue in other books as well. Maybe it could the the gateway book? Wishful thinking? I imagine Harry Potter to be of the same accord in promoting reading. I'd like to see more of that.

I loved Hamlet out of all of Shalespeare's plays. R$J didn't really do anything for me. Twilight was okay in my eyes. The rest of the series becomes complete crap after the initial book.

Neither! Pride and Prejudice ALL THE WAY!
P.S. No offense but HOW IS THIS EVEN A QUESTION? Twilight is just a modern-day version of Romeo and Juliet when you really think about it.
P.P.S. However, if I really had to choose between the two...um...ergh...oh, FINE! *throws up hands in defeat* Romeo and Juliet.
P.P.P.S. Although if Mercutio didn't ROCK and I wasn't head over heels for Tybalt, I'd pick Twilight.

I have read both Twilight and Romeo & Juliet. I understand Shakespear but I didnt really like how R&J ended! I mean come on R listen to some people or wait like 2 seconds ( I mean come on in those 2 seconds you could have made ur declaration on un-ending forbidden love longer.)
probably neither

Romeo and Juliet.
Hell, any Shakespeare play.
Don't get me wrong, I actually did enjoy Twilight.
But Shakespeare's Shakespeare.
And Stephenie Meyer's Stephenie Meyer.
So... Yeah.

I really loved both but I think when it comes down to the story of Romeo and Juliet is just beautiful.

I enoyed Twilight more, but really enjoyed Romeo and Juliet. It's just, Twilight was paranormal, and I really love paranormal books.

Johnathan, sir, that was possibly the best comment I've ever read. Kudos to you.

However, I would choose life and reread Romeo & Juliet. At least I might learn some clever ways to say things reading Shakespeare's play.

Romeo and Juliet, even though their love was for each other was in a short amount I loved reading it and I love Shakespeare. After reading Twilight I wanted to shoot something -_-

I enjoyed reading twilight better..but i have to say that Romeo and Juliet's a better love story...Twilight is still very romantic though :)

twilight or romeo and juliet.. seriously?..seriously?..
what are you Stephenie Meyer's loving mother or something?

What the!? Romeo and Juliet of course, it's Shakespeare. THE Shakespeare. :D

Romeo and Juliet is unhealthy 'love'. I'd call it obsession.

Twilight is also unhealthy 'love'.

R&J die.

Bella becomes a sparkly genius who'll live forever with a hybrid child and a a possessive husband.

Weighing it up...

At least you can learn Elizabethan from Shakespeare.

Twilight offers reason why you should never fall in love with anything cold, sparkly and obsessive.

I think Elizabethan is a more convenient lesson to learn. Sparkly people who aren't people haven't ever really caught my fancy.

What was the question?

R&J or Twilight?

Harry Potter.

I thought it prudent, as the two stories mentioned weren't very related. (No offence intended!)

I'm sticking with Harry Potter.

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Romeo and Juliet. How is that even a question?

HAHA. Jonathan hit the nail on the head. Romeo was an egotistical idiot and Juliet was naive. I really couldn't wait for their existence to end. To kill yourself over someone you met three days ago...ugh!!!

So i have to choose between sparkly vampires and a three day relationship between a 13 year old girl and a 17 year boy. Lets see in Romeo in Juliet, boy meets girl falls in love (even though he said the same thing about another girl just hours before.) yada yada yada they both stupidly die in the end. This is the worst shakesperian play.




Now Twilight the bane of my existance, a book about a weak minded female named Bella who falls in love with a sparkly vampire named Edward, but a Werewolf/shapeshifter Jacob also loves Bella (who in my opinion isn't worth the fuss). At the end she becomes another sparkly vampire, and they build up for a huge battle which ends with nothing.




So out of these i have to pick the gun so i can blow a hole in my brain before i read either of these again.

Lets see, Romeo and Juliet fall in love at first sight and then incite a war between their families, planning to run off and immaturely forgetting that to love someone means to have their best interests at heart. They're alawys pulling at each other and forgetting about their own families and loyalties. Everything turns into a big mess and the end is sad but it all feels pretty forced.

As Shakespeare plays go, this one is fairly abysmal. Yes, it's full of pretty words but it really lacks the meat of some of his better stories.

But: Mercutio. A fantastic character that pushes the story head and shoulders above Twilight.


Now Twilight has far more pages devoted to the romance between our protagonists and it still manages to be more shallow than the three day love affair between two idiot teenagers. The answer is hands down Romeo and Juliet but keep in mind that I would rate the Classifieds page in today's Newspaper above Twilight.