I know we cannot change the story of Romeo and Juliet;
the play has been famous for centuries as it is. However, if you had the
opportunity to be William Shakespeare and change the ending of the play, what
would you write?
I found an interesting answer to this question
on Internet, which shows three different new endings to the story. In the first
one—another tragedy—Paris kills Romeo outside the Capulet’s monument, Juliet
wakes up and kills Paris, and after seeing Romeo’s corpse, she commits suicide.
The second ending—the one I liked the most—shows that Friar Lawrence
accompanies Juliet while she is “dead” and sends Paris home, so when Romeo
arrives, the monk tells the plan to him, Juliet wakes up, and the couple has a
happy life in Mantua with five children. And the last one, Juliet thinks that the
idea of drinking the potion to simulate her dead is absurd; actually, she
prefers to go to Mantua, dressing like a man, with Friar Lawrence in order to
live with Romeo there.
Personally, I would write an ending like the
second one I mentioned above, because I think the story is so tragic, and it gets
on my nerves when nothing goes according to the plan. This is what I would
write: Romeo receives the letter from Friar Lawrence; he realizes that Juliet
is alive, so he goes back to Verona to see her; and then, they escape together and
go to a peaceful place. Many years after that, they come back with their
children and tell the truth to their families.
But now, the question is the following: is this
story interesting? I do not think so. That is the reason why Shakespeare wrote
a story full of tragedy. Mine would not be famous at all. It is your turn now;
let’s see if you can create something really good as Shakespeare did.
Javiera Francisca Ramírez Cornejo :)
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