The Montagues and Capulets. Two names. Despite his admission that Shakespeare ôinventedö the modern human, a superficial Harold Bloom reading of ShakespeareÆs Romeo and Juliet might focus on the nanve, hormonal, inevitable doom of star-crossed lovers. Bloom (1998) argues that it is intensity of love and youthful idealism responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, ôRomeo and Juliet is unmatched, in Shakespeare and in the worldÆs literature, as a vision of an uncompromising mutual love that perishes of its own idealism and intensity,ö (89). The Montagues and Capulets. These ônamesö are all that needs expressed to understand how Romeo and Juliet has nothing at all to do with an indictment of young or star-crossed love at all but everything to do with human nature then and now. It has everything to do with two nanve, star-crossed lovers who have been taught they need to distinguish between ôMontaguesö and ôCapuletsö, and, so, they tarnish their direly genuine need for each other by worshipping approval of one or the other definition of these ônames.ö This applies nothing whatsoever to their feelings for each other, but they have been taught that these are the only ôvaluableö names. The ônamesö and ôvaluesö do not match and they know it but they know even more their love is genuine despite what they have been taught. It is only in this way that the love shared between Romeo and Juliet transcends their environment. They know there is no way to receive approval from the only two ôworthyö names in town because of their love, so they choose a better course. They would rather be genuinely dead in their genuine love for each other than un-genuinely alive to be worthy of one ônameö or another. They are not afraid of their parents; they are not prone to hide or lie from their parents, and they are not unappreciative of their parentÆs genuine sacrifices in their ôname.ö They are aware, though, that desp...