Review on Romeo and Juliet

Review on Romeo and Juliet

Some famous plays, comedies, and tragedies were written during sixteenth century by English writer to educate young teenagers at that time all over the world. Romeo and Juliet is one of a famous play, which was written by William Shakespeare (c.1564-1616) in 1595 by basing on his experiences and observation on young tonnages acts, old generation cultural influence and deep conflicts of rich families in Europe.

The story starts with a terrible meeting in the street of Verona of servants from the Montague and Capulets, which are the most well known families in Italy at that time, with in a brawl. We are to see about the tragic love of two young teens, Romeo- a handsome, tall, dark-haired and flashed eyes teen that changes his infatuations love to a great love and Juliet- a beautiful girl with beautiful eyes, gay mouth and smiling, and lovely face. The story is ended with sad ending with the deaths of the main characters-Romeo and Juliet and make peace in Verona and ends the deep conflict between the two families.

Until the end of the story what we don’t see and learn from it are lack of strict punishment from law in order to punish all trouble makers from the two families and miss to introduce readers of cultural background of Europe at that period of time.

In my opinion, I think that it is a very good story including organization, plot, and setting. It is also a meaningful story to all young teens in over the world especially in Cambodia and educates all Cambodians teens to use their rational thinking to think what is right and wrong before doing something. This story should be included in junior high school curriculum in order to experience students to know disadvantages of un-planning love and married.

What I like the most in this story is a great love of Romeo and Juliet even though they all know that there is a little possibility of winning over their both sides’ parents, and sensible and generous minds of the prince and Friar Laurance.

However, I hate some acts of Lord Montague, Capulet, and Tybalt. All of them are the worst characters and trouble makers. They all should know themselves that no one is perfect in life. What they should bear in mind are generosity, tolerant, patient, and sensible within their rational thinking use.

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On a Cold and Gloomy Night

On a Cold and Gloomy Night


On Monday October 19, 1992, it was the third day of Pchum Ben. It was a cold and gloomy night. The wind was howling and thunder could be heard often. It had been like this for several hours, yet there was no rain. Boys, who lived near Damnak pagoda at Siem Reap province, normally get up around three o’clock to find coconuts at the pagoda. Every night five or six young boys including me went there. Luckily, it was the third day of Pchum Ben, so only I and another friend went into the pagoda.
Many coconut palms were planted behind the temple and others were planted in the area where many tombs were located. That night we left home early and we got only one each.
Suddenly, we heard a clear voice came from the area where many corpses were buried. There were two coconuts. We wondered why there were coconuts even though most of the coconut palms were planted only two years.
Everyone was reluctant, but we still decided to go there. We have found two more coconuts each, so each of us got three coconuts. We decided to leave and came back home. Suddenly, we saw two more coconuts. Because of our greed for them, we didn’t came back home yet. From a tomb near us, a low husky voice threatened us that we had to leave there. We immediately asked, “Who are you?” but there weren’t answers. We did not care where it came from and who he was. Unfortunately we could not find those coconuts too. My friend said, “I’m sure that I really saw two coconuts.” While we were talking the same husky voice threatened us again. Before I could not count to two, a tall man appeared on a tomb. At that time we were very frightened and we ran as quickly as possible. We arrived home at 4:30 am.
Being very frightened, my friend was sent to hospital at 7:00 am. He had a high fever. This baffling mystery remains unsolved. Who threatened us? No one could answer this question. It was probably a ghost, who had been released during Pchum Ben.

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