Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Significant Other And Perfection? Really?
What is essential to share regarding your completion of the "Perfect
Mate" handout? How does your experience relate to what you know about
Romeo and Juliet's situation? What does this make you think? Reflect?
Contemplate? Don't forget to include references to our class discussion.
This blog response should be completed in class on 4-15-15.
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I dont really know how it relates to romeo and juliet. It dosent really make me think anything really.
My perfect significant other, would be very nice, sweet, and adventurous. She would like to be outdoors, and would always make sandwiches for me. She would love me, and would want to have kids. Would like to go to sports games with me. Nothing would matter except for me and her, and thats how Romeo and Juliet were. They loved each other for who they were, not who their families were. They would do anything to be with each other, and thats how me and my significant other would be.
In order to please both parties one being your family and the other being yourself you must align the statistics together for the most perfect fit. Then you can please your parents style and your own preferences.
For your perfect mate you need to say what you enjoy in a person based off of what you have already been exposed to. Weather its people you find more attractive based off of hair color or maybe a sport that they play or what they enjoy doing on their free time. This just makes me realize that they both found their perfect mate and when hard situations happened they realized that they couldn't find another perfect mate and didn't want to live with anyone else.
The only thing i could see that will relate to Romeo and Juliet is that if you truly care or love someone you will do anything to be with that person.
Basically the person you want is someone who at the end of the day makes life less sucky. Someone you can laugh with have fun with eat food with and other stuff too. But then there is a person who your parents want you to date and marry compared to maybe what you want which could make your life terrible which you saw in Romeo and Juliet was an option.
I can see Romeo and Juliet's predicament and how it could be challenging to keep this all under wraps. In most instances, not everything lines up which can cause problems.
The perfect mate for me would act like Juliet to Romeo and we would care just about are "love."
It was an interesting experience to see what my parents thought about who would be a Perfect Mate for me. Even though me and my parents views about my Perfect Mate were almost the same, I can understand how difficult a situation Romeo and Juliet (specifically Juliet) is in. She has no choice about who she is pared with, so her parents have forced with someone she probably isn't going to enjoy. I'm almost forced to think about how different our society's are now then they were back in that time.
Romeo and Juliet is a rushed loved which is not really common. they loved each other enough to die for each other.
Lots of the traits I wrote down were the same as what my parents wrote, but what I had different priorities on those traits than what my Dad did. The fact that my Dad tried to make a pretty lengthy conversation out of something that wasn't real gave me a pretty good idea of what Romeo and Juliet had to go through. Especially since there predicament was on a much larger scale and in real life
My perfect significant other is someone who is nice and understands me and can make me laugh. This connects to romeo and Juliet because if you truly liked the girl then you would do anything for her.
My parents and I both wrote down the trait of being able to converse would be nessisary, and Romeo and Juliet didn't seem to talk at all, I don't quite understand how they both fell in love so quickly and with so little dialogue between them. I think if William S. had given them more time to talk it would be more belivable but I don't think that was what he was going for. A sence of rush.
This handout really highlights the differences and similarities between what I think would be best for me and what my parents want for me. I was happy to see that we wanted a lot of the same things, fun, willing, respectful. My parents know more about this kind of thing than I do so I think that their input is very valuable. In the case of Romeo and Juliet it is different because of their families. Their parents have clouded judgment because of the long lasting hatred with their families. This makes me feel for both Romeo and Juliet because they are rebelling against their families and risking everything all because of a stupid tradition that has been around for years.
That our parents may think we know what we look for but at least my parents didn't really know. My mom is literally describing a perfect guy that you see in movies. The only part that my mom got right was the aussie accent. Juliet's parents think that the suitor they found for her is everything shes been wanting but its not.
I think it's weird how Juliet was still so young and her parents were trying to marry her off. I just find that very interesting in that it was normal for young girls to be in arranged marriages before most of them have gone into puberty. I think it would be really uncomfortable to to sit in a room, at a table and talk to your future husband with just a few days notice until the wedding. I am not planning on getting married any time soon and that scares me to think little girls are getting married off just for their families sake and pride. Honestly, I think the legal age for marriage should be over 18 since that person will have consent and a backbone to step out of an arranged marriage. A 12 year old is probably getting married right now and that scares me that if I lived in a foreign nation, I would be married and probably have 2 kids by now. This is all just an interesting view on perspective.
My ideal significant other would be a very caring, intelligent, easy going person. Into athletics and health. Someone that has that curious side and wants to find an adventure in everything. Compared to Romeo and Juliet I wouldnt base my love on a one time meeting but it would be more about friendship and being happy and comfortable with each other.
My perfect mate would be nice, loyal, funny and beautiful. I think Juliet had some of those traits.
My completion of a perfect mate relates to Romeo and Juliet because both are from love and not by force. However they are different because I would wait to get to know my mate and see if they contain the traits I would want in a mate although Romeo and Juliet did not get to know each other. Honesty, trust, and love is not something that happens overnight and in my ideal perfect mate I want to be able to fully know the person before vowing to be with them for the rest of my life or killing myself over the sadness of losing them.
From Romeo and Juliet's situation, my experience is close to their situation because my situation is almost close to their situation. My situation is good because I spend time with my family and I give them love like how Romeo and Juliet give love to each other. This made me think that they have a really happy and loving story about their life. We both have good connections with our family and we both treat our family really well.
In today's world, parents are much more lenient when it comes to the person that their child is marrying. Of course, they would be even more willing if that person fit their expectations, but as long as their child will have a happy life with them, they are more accepting of some other traits they might see as flaws. This only applies to certain cultures since in some parts of the world this is not the case, and that works for them. My mom didn't really have any big requirements beside make me happy and be respectful. I'm grateful that I don't live in a time or place in which my future was in the hands of others and I get to make my own decisions regarding my love life and relationships with others.
Romeo and Juliets Parents dont approve of their love towards eachother and would rather force Romeo and Juliet to marry different people then let them be happy.
i can see how romeo and Juliet problems are building. they both want to keep bot of there mothers and father happy but they are madly in love with each other. and i think that if both of them and well respected and they like each other then there parents should give it a try
I did not do the worksheet but it does relate to romeo and Juliet because they each had an idea in there mind of who there perfect mate. Romeo thought he found her at first but she was not attracted to him, but in the process he found his perfect mate Juliet. The worksheet also relates because our parents almost always have a different idea of what our perfect mate is. Our parents usually want some one that is good for them, but that never relates exactly to what our idea is. In Juliet's case her parents found a man who was handsome, polite, and wealthy for Juliet but she did not find him attractive in anyway. This goes to show how our parents idea of a perfect mate isn't always perfect for us.
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