ENGL 431 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4.1: Storge, Sophocles
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Defying the stars: tragic love as the struggle for freedom in romeo and juliet. The critical-interpretive paradigm: individual desires are irreducible to social norms shaping them. Thesis: romeo and juliet raises this dialectical tension (our goals are conditioned by- but not reconciled to- other demands) between individual subjects and social reality to a fever pitch- unto death . A fuller explanation of the importance of the medicinal remedies and suicide. A new interpretation of the play as it understands the struggle of freedom and self-realization of romeo and juliet. Assumes the reconciliation between the capulets and montagues is worthless to the reader: as it is not worth the price. The story line should follow the sorrow and joy of romeo and juliet: connecting their woe and the social reconciliation is stressed. The ght between the families is a means to show manhood: the people of verona then hate the independent quarreling.
