How is Twilight like Romeo and Juliet?

Well, Bella and Edward did come close to committing suicide... and didn't both relationships start, like, after ten seconds?

And people say that R and J is a tradgedy. Twilight is the same. It was a tradgedy... it was ever written. :/

Like everyone else said, there ARE some similarities. I don't think it was based off of Romeo and Juliet, but if it WAS then it was rather loosely based, anyways, the Amore isn't exactly forbidden, but he's a vampire and she's a human, so it's sort of difficult, especially when te consider the fact that he has to resist eating her whenever she'd nearby.

Also, they "Fall in love" way too fost. It's sort of a Amore at first sight/rushed sort of thing, like Romeo and Juliet see each other at a party, and after barely exchanging a word, they're in love. Same pretty much with Edward and Bella, only they meet at school.

To add to the whole "forbidden" thing, yes, their parents don't exactly oppose it in the books, but Charlie doesn't really like Edward very much, at least at first. Plus, how do te think he'd react if he found out his daughter is dating a vampire? Probably in a similar way to how Lord Capulet would react if he knew Juliet was in Amore with Romeo, except of course, different century, different punishments, XD.

Also, they both get married young, qnd their ages were rather far apart when te consider it, I mean, Juliet was 13 and Romeo was 17, not such a huge difference when te consider the fact that Edward is almost 100 years older than Bella, but still...........

Though they don't actually DIE in the end, there is the whole almost-battle with the Volturi.

Hope this helps, and yeah, I agree they arent the most similar libri in the world, but they do have thier similarities. whats funny is that most of the things I don't like about Romeo and Juliet, those characteristics are shared with Twilight.....weird.

First off I apologize for any bad spelling.Ok I studied Romeo and Juilet last anno in english and had to do an exam on it. In my opinion, I don't think Shakespeare meant it to be a 'love story' but a tradgity, and focussing on how Romeo and Juliet rushed into it and their stupidity.
Twilight relates to it in the sense that they rushed into love. That is all that is similar, it's not forbidden(As I see no one stopping and da Ra has the human/vampire couple been used to death) no one dies (it's a vampire book and no one died...come on! death comes with the teritory!)
I would also like to contradict myself, earlier I detto it's similar cause they rushed into love.I lied...sorta(like science teachers) It is not exclusive to Romeo and Juliet. I see it almost everyday...teenagers rush into relationships and 'love' all the time. It's nothing new o special...it's as common as the common cold.
So no Twilight is not like Romeo and Juliet.

It's not. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, they both die in the end and everybody try to separate them. In Twilight, the story is più like an vecchio stile fairytale. The characters live happily ever after in every way possible, and the only one who has doupts about their relationship is Edward himself because he thinks he's too dangerous for her. I never saw it as an examble of a forbidden love.

I've never really understood it, either. I think it would have to do with "forbidden love" because Edward is dangerous and whatnot. Maybe the "twoo wuuv" between them. That's just my theory, though.

Um I'm a Twilight fan but I honestly don't see how it relates to Romeo and Juliet and that's weird because I'm going to be studing Romeo and Juliet this semester. Maybe because Romeo and Juliet were forbidden to Amore each other and Edward and Bella were forbidden to Amore each other because one was human and the other wasn't.......but I don't really know. At the end of the semester I'll tell te what i think about the comparison, after I study Romeo and Juliet.

Because neither one is actually about "love." Romeo and Juliet's relationship is lust. So is Edward's and Bella's, if te think about it. The only "forbidden" part of Edward's and Bella's relationship was that he was a vampire and she was a human.

Ha! StephM does admit Twilight is lust!

No, I don't get it either, Romeo and Juliet are much younger, people will be Leggere it in 400 più years, people don't die in Twilight, Juliet is not that hard to please and it is really well written.

Personally I think its just to say its a Amore story, even if Romeo and Juliet is lust.
Also maybe they compare Jacob to Paris, as in he likes Juliet (Bella) but Juliet (Bella) likes Romeo (Edward).

it isn't. Bella and Edward SPOILERS SPOILERS have a beautiful happy ending while Romeo and Juliet both die because of there Amore for one another. Bella and Edward don't Amore each other, they lust each other

i think stephanie meyer meant for new moon to be kinda based off of romeo and juliet. It's kinda forbidden Amore cause edward doesnt want to change her into a vampire and so they cant be together forever, but that doesnt really make sense so i dont know about that. but the whole italy part at the end is suppose to remind te of romeo and juliet, especially cause edward and her watch it in the beginning. But he trys to get those italian guys to kill him and i think that is where everybody gets the idea of romeo and juliet.

The only real similarities I see is the fact that Edward was going to commit suicide because he thought that's what Bella did. But as usual it only ALMOST happened. Man I wish it happened... Anyway other than that - I got nothing.

It turns a bit 'Romeo-and-Juliet' in New Moon. In RAJ one of them (don't remember which one, sorry) commits suicide because they thinks the other is dead, and Edwards almost does when he goes to the Volturi because Bella, 'his only reason to live, if that is what he is' dead.
(If that's how the story goes. o is that più like Mark Anthony and Cleopatra? New moon is like Mark Anthony and Cleopara) I think, but Twilight certainly isn't like Romeo and Juliet. And that's comming from a twilight fan.

I think some BELIEVE they are similar because they are both so-called "forbidden Amore stories". The fact that Edward is a vampire and can't be with a human is the whole forbidden thing right there. It's not about their Amore being forbidden da people - it's più o less being forbidden da the laws of nature o whatever. And in New Moon, Charlie's rage at Bella leaving to go to Italy for three days, then being ticked off at Edward for putting her through all the pain, made him, for lack of better term, "anti-Edward". And that seemed good enough for forbidden for all those obsessors.

As other people have detto before, it also has a lot to do with the "plot line" of New Moon (well, the remaining scraps of plot the book dangerously lacked until the last hundred pages). And after the fact that Edward was about to supposedly die to save Bella (by SPARKLING - *maniacal laughter* Sorry, I never got over that), it made people come to the conclusion that "Hey - that's kind of like the Romeo-and-Juliet storyline!!!" (The fact that Bella made those painfully obvious similarities throughout the book may have contributed to this belief.) te also might say that both Romeo and Juliet, and Edward and Bella, were similar because they were in lust, not love. But unfortunately, the people who compare the two couples are usually Twilight-lovers, and therefore don't even think about the lust because they believe both couples are in love. So that rules out the the lust theory.

I'd say the only reason people are comparing the two is because everybody knows Romeo and Juliet, so when they hear Edward and Bella also have that "forbidden love" factor, they immediately jump to the conclusion that it's about RaJ, because RaJ is pretty much the most famous forbidden Amore story of all time, and therefore they should be compared, assuming, of course, that they are both in love, not lust. (Which they are not.) :)

Well, there's my theory.

te need to remember that the story (particularly new moon) is LOOSLY based off R + J...

Similaries:
1. Forbidden first love
2. innamorati are from different worlds
3. society keeps them apart
4. There is a thirs guy (Jacob/Paris)
5. they end up getting married
6. being together is dangerous
7. one ends up trying to kill themselves due to belief that their partner is dead
8. both end up dead (vampires ARE dead)
9. conflicts caused da religious beliefs

differences:
1. Lovers' relationships with their "parents"
2. one has a relatively happy ending
3. one results in offspring

Personally, I think even if there are some similarities, they are rather non-specific and common - it's like when sometimes stories about bad boy/good girl o "We can't be together because society tears us apart" are being compared to one another even if there are not alike at all in general, especially in terms of characterization and plot. Same with Twilight and Romeo/Juliet. The only similarity I personally could find is how rushed both Edward/Bella and Romeo/Juliet were in terms of romantic feelings development. Other than that, the genres of both stories, characters and storyline are entirely different. Romeo/Juliet main theme is how parents can ruin the lives of their children da not accepting o respecting their wishes, so the main conflict is not even RJ forbidden Amore but the way their feelings are treated da their familes that got cought up in wars and fights. Edward/Bella Amore on the other hand is forbidden because like someone mentioned before, it seems quite unnatural for a vampire to be with a mortal girl - unless he turns her into a vampire, which technically wouldn't be natural too. Romeo and Juliet is a satire/tragedy whereas Twilight is romance/adventure genre so even here there are no similarities. Character personalities are not alike at all as well.

OK, so in New Moon, when Bella goes cliff diving, Edward thinks that she just fell off of the cliff and died. He believes that he cannot live without her so he goes to the Volturi to have them kill him so that he can be with Bella. It fits because when Romeo finds Juliet in her "living death" he kills himself to be with her. Hope this helps!

I think it's just a metaphor people use because they're twihard (rubbish joke...) to convince us that Bella and Eddy are the ultimate love.