romeo and juilet

As we entered the unit of Shakespeare to be honest I was expecting to feel the way characters do in movies. The whole cliche of how his writing is so boring and doesn't make sense.  
On our first few days of the unit we learned about Sonnets, and how to write them. Before we wrote a personal Sonnet as well, we read a few of Shakespeare's to learn about how they sound and the beats and the rhythm and I wasn't too interested.
Then my teacher read us this one Sonnet of Shakespeare's that I remembered reciting in an acting class, Sonnet 18.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.


Reading this Sonnet gave me a different perspective on his writing. To be honest I started liking the unit a lot more once I really tried writing a Sonnet and read more about W.S.

Then the next week we got started on the 'second half' of the unit which was Romeo and Juilet. We started off by learning a bit of the history of the story, and when W.S wrote it.
We soon watched Baz Luhrmann's take on Romeo and Juilet and it really 'touched' me. The story is so emotional and shows how different life was for love back then. I wish there was more stories and plays like this. Something that doesn't have a happy ending but in some way ends right; how you don't know what's happening, how intrigued you are to find out more. And the characters all seem to fit well together and how they all stand in the same place, and have the same connection but they are all so different. Juilet who is a beautiful girl coming from an uptight ruled family. She's looking for love and the one she's supposed to love isn't right. Then there's Romeo who is a spacey boy also trying to find the same thing. And he writes about it, and thinks of it all the time. The Montague and Capulet relationship is what stops the two from being able to free their love and show it in a happy manner. Throughout the movie these two "teams" show there problems in fights, and anger. And soon enough it ends in death; death of Romeo and Juilet, and death of the fighting.