Trending Now - If Literature’s Biggest Romantics Could Text
Romance is a hard thing to convey over text, no matter how strong your game is. But what if the literary greats that inspired romance itself put cellphones in the hands of their most beloved characters?
It’s hard to imagine an epic love story like Romeo and Juliet taking place on iMessage, but that’s exactly what the folks at SparkNotes did. These hilarious text reenactments of literature’s most passionate, iconic plots will remind you why old-fashioned courtship didn’t exactly make it into the 21st century of smartphones and social media.
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” “Idk.”
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“The Sorrows of Young Werther” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo
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“Ilias” by Homer
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“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë
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“Harry Potter” by J. K. Rowling
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“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
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“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare
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“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare
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“The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest” by Tirso de Molina
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“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë
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