Originally posted by: Krantikari
Bad examples. Devdas and Romeo & Juliet are cult favourite love stories for good reason.
Sure they didn’t get happy endings but their love was above and beyond things like that. It was divine and eternal. Above petty and shallow things like age difference, caste and creed & materialism.😆Thank you for elevating Adilie by likening them to Romeo-Juliet and Devdas-Paro. Even I didn’t think they are that great.😆
I know I have a PhD in literary criticism, so I will be a bit of a nerd. The way Shakespeare wrote it, Romeo and Juliet was a satire of young love which doesn't know the difference between love and infatuation and romanticises death in its garb. The play literally begins with Romeo being majnu over Juliet's cousin Rosaline and within days falls in love with Juliet who is 13.
They both die over a 'love' that didn't even last weeks.
So yeah, Adi is definitely like Romeo
Devdas is literally about colonisation and old money and Devdas is shown as developing alcoholism due to property dispute with his father. Paro plays a very ornamental role in the book.
Again, very much like Aditya. Toodles!
This is what happens when you don't read the entire thing!