Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And Sulmpia

The ancient paean civilizations are not all in fact too different from the modern, maybe not in technological developments but in the human experience. One example of this could be a book of poetry found by archeologists that was written in Ancient Rome by a teenage girl named Sulpicia. It could be assumed that she was fairly young by the voice that rings through the form of the poetry. It seems more immature than that of a fully grown woman. For one thing she speaks about this wonderful man that she is obviously infatuated with, but tragically he does not know that she has fallen madly in love. In the times of Ancient Rome as well it was very rare for children to choose who they were going to marry. Parents would arrange marriage to try and get a better social and economic standing within society through the marriage of their daughters. This still does happen in the modern world.

Sulpicia also seems to be quick to dramatize her situations. Instead of keeping a level
This train of thought for a teenage girl can even be seen in Elizabethan England when William Shakespeare wrote his play Romeo and Juliet. In the play of star crossed lovers Juliet is assumed to be a teenage girl at the time that she had met Romeo. There is much dab ate about whether or not there was an actual love between the two or if it was simply lust. After a chance meeting the two teenagers fall madly and deeply in love at a rate that seems almost rushed. This could have also been what Sulpicia was feeling. It may have truly been a love it cannot be know for certain but that also does not rule out lust. It may not have been a lust for the physical but more for the emotional. The emotional longing crosses over again into modern day where girls want to feel an emotional bond after a certain age. They crave the idea of being and growing with another and again sometimes it is love but mostly it is merely a