My little sister loves watching American Idol. It is incredibly annoying, but sometimes I listen absent-mindedly while I'm doing something else. As I was sitting in front of my computer staring at a blank screen and wracking my brain for something in modern culture that had to do with Romeo and Juliet I realized that what I needed was right there. The off-key distraction was finally helping me. I realized that on American Idol, no matter how talented the artists are, the ones who win are the singers who fit perfectly into a mold. They are the ones who are exactly like the people before them. If a singer is fantastic--but unique--they will likely fail and be doomed in their career, just like in Romeo and Juliet. (Only the stakes are much higher in the play)
When Romeo and Juliet fall in love, it isn't accepted. A Montague and a Capulet?! It just ISN'T done! In the play, "The fearful passage of their death-marked love, and the continuance of their parents' rage/Which but their childrens' end/Naught could remove" is a rare occurrance. Their romance does not fall neatly into line with all of the other preplanned marriages of Capulet and Capulet, Montague with Montague. I think that Shakespeare is suggesting that when people don't follow 'the rules,' they are doomed forever.
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