Thursday, July 9, 2015

Let's rewrite the great play "Romeo and Juliet"

Hi, all
This is a hilarious scene. Let's rewrite the great play "Romeo and Juliet" 
“Failing to communicate in a timely fashion: Romeo and Juliet each committed suicide because of the lack of timely communication. Romeo killed himself because he thought that Juliet was dead. The letter alerting him to Juliet’s special sleeping potion never got to him. If only they had texted. The play would have to be rewritten for the mobile era— but would it be more comedy than tragedy if they died because their batteries ran out of power?” (Rainie &Wellman, 2012, p. 2289)
I want to rewrite like this. Romeo and Juliet can use Skype, Google hangout to do video chatting. They can text to each other and talk with each other every day. They can also keep in touch with each other through Facebook and Twitter. Meanwhile, they can ask their fans to help them getting married. Without parents’ blessing, it is still possible for them to get married. Even If they do not want to do that, they can become a virtual couple in a virtual community.  
Do you like my rewriting idea? How will you rewrite the great play by taking mobile technology into consideration?  
Rainie, L., & Wellman, B. (2012). The Mobile Revolution. In Networked: The New Social Operating System (pp. 2286-2289). The MIT Press. Kindle Edition.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Zhongrui, I really like your rewriting idea. I believe that if Romeo and Juliet had cellphones, they would live happily ever after. I guess many romantic tragedies happened in Medieval times would have to rewrite if all the charterers could revive in the networked world. :-)

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  2. Haha! I could not agree more. I wish someone would rewrite those great tragedies.

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