Stephen

Pleasant soul, a Chelsea fan. Life is meant to be enjoyed.

[Stephen @Stephen_Capable]

@bukiet004 He will surely do 😂

[Stephen @Stephen_Capable]

@d_fiyinfoluwa1 😂😂 thank you

[Stephen @Stephen_Capable]

@lookingforhanie Thank you

[Stephen @Stephen_Capable]

Thank God for running things smoothly. I'm neither pained nor bitter.

[Stephen @Stephen_Capable]

@Deola_kikit Thank you

[Stephen @Stephen_Capable]

@thebolamontana @oluwanifemiii1 My personal person 🙌🙌🙌

[CelebrityNurse🇳🇬🇬🇧 @oluwanifemiii1]

You don’t have to be gagged, no one is asking you to. But the bitterness? That’s all you.

[BLESS ✞ @WuraOla_Bless]

Okay this!! The tail, the details, the colors! Ugh I love how creative Nigerian stylists are. 😍🥰🔥

[Bola Montana @thebolamontana]

But you people didn’t have a problem singing Johnny Drille’s Romeo and Juliet o
God sees all 👍🏾

[Chef Ali @SymplyNoor]

you’re not even remotely correct.

because love in the play is even a central theme, one of many.

a rooted assertion such as this in a field like literature is paltry. dead on arrival.

i can write a solid essay justifying that allusion and it would make sense to the readers.

let me explain why this assertion doesn’t apply:

first off, the phrase “romeo and juliet” has been shrouded by another meaning in our society and culture today (i’m talking bout nigeria that i know of), you hear things like: “romeo kiss your juliet”, at a wedding reception. “romeo and juliet, beeni tiyin ri”

the allusion of romeo and juliet here is devoid of that tragedy. and literature allows it. if you even look into sociology, you’d see that culture has a way of preserving the beauty of a story or an event while limiting its moral and narrative complexity. symbols may be adopted, but often times the contradictions that gave rise to them are shunned (subconsciously or consciously).

for instance, if we look at yoruba mythology (philosophy), the osun deity precisely; she was a tragic heroine. this was someone that struggled with fertility, had marital issues, her once beloved husband turned his back on her, called her barren, her co wife taunted her, etc. osun never had a justifiable and fair resolution. she metamorphosed into a river. her story ended on a note of absolute loss.

what is the irony today? osun is a deity now associated with fertility. good health, prosperity, etc. her worshipers tailor her name with that of their children’s: osunfunto, osunbunmi, osunfunke, etc. and i think female children are named after her more than their male counterparts (correct me if I’m wrong please, i made the comment based on observation). after a deity that struggled with fertility and had a sour marital life.

the play is complicated, yes. still, it is from the complexity that popular culture fetches elements that give this almost pristine romantic imagery of the characters: romeo and juliet. for instance, the balcony scene, the declarations:

“my bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep, the more i give to thee, the more i have, for both are infinite”

yes, the love/union was extinguished by death. but we could raise an argument on the inevitability of death and how we shall all depart someday — whether we allude our marital union to a comic play or a tragic one. we could also metaphorically say that their death is poetic. or that they could possibly reunite in the celestials, metaphysically/allegorically speaking.

the interpretation many of the audience have of romeo and juliet is that of an indivisible romantic love. and it makes sense, because in the theme of love in the play, we can see devotion, sacrifice, defiance, disregard for barriers, and feud, etc.

and this makes more sense, if you compare othello to romeo and juliet, because both have the theme of death, but the circumstances that led to them differ. in the theme of love and death in othello, you’d have minor themes like infidelity, betrayal, penance, etc. as such, i doubt if anyone would want to model othello and desdemona for an ideal marital relationship.

ps: aiming at the artist like that is not only unnecessary but also very unfair. because, let’s even pretend that you have a point, there is something called poetic license, which is applicable to fashion designers as well. they have the right to sacrifice logic, break function, etc for artistry expression.

[Tomori Simisola @SimisolaTomori]

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He really need every help he can get and any amount given will be so appreciated.

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[woman commando @Jaclineque]

“I have declared a war on illiteracy” and it’s just you using one of the most special moments in someone’s life and circulating a strangers picture for viral content over something so incredibly silly. President general fr, bby that’s not war it’s harassment

[Stephen @Stephen_Capable]

Your account isn't even verified, and your followers haven't increased. You have a lot to learn.

[Aisha Bello™ 🔻🇦🇷 @Iamindo0]

Well in this case you are not right…

romance in older literature don’t always mean a happy love story. It could mean a story centered on extraordinary love, devotion, sacrifice, and emotional intensity, death mostly used to prove the depth or purity of the lovers devotion.
Because death in something inevitable, so dying for the sake of the other is a peak romance.
Any student or fan literature knows this.
There is also an older literary idea that love and death are closely connected. A lover dying because they cannot have their beloved could be interpreted as evidence that the love was so powerful that ordinary life became unbearable without it.

The Folger Shakespeare Library describes the play as affirming “the power of love over hate,” never heard anyone describes it as “tragic deaths”

Any person that interprets Romeo and Juliet as “love that end in tragic death” doesn’t understand it or literature.
It is a love story where the lovers repeatedly choose each other at any circumstance until their death.
Death is not the tragedy in this case, but one living without the other or living apart.
Scholarly interpretations describes it as “Love triumph over death” because choosing to die than been apart made their love appear exceptionally pure.

Also death in most European and Asian culture doesn’t mean that the dead one lose, but the people they left behind to bear brunt of their absence… so in the case of Romeo and Juliet, neither is living to be in pain without the other.

[beauty boy @_ajide_]

As a 3 year old brand owner and designer, it’s so encouraging to see brands do 10-15-20 year’s anniversary shows!

Just brilliant!

[Stephen @Stephen_Capable]

RT @thebolamontana: Everybody is dropping their takes and moving on
After all they’re not forcing anyone to like or approve it but you, you…

[Bola Montana @thebolamontana]

I’m sorry but I don’t take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything in their life. Come for me and I’ll come for your mommy

[OTOME💪 @TomeofTomeKoko]

This is how to be creative, not designing a hurricane dress🤦🏿‍♀️

[Stephen @Stephen_Capable]

Twitter is like a zombie. It only takes one person to comment negatively on your post, and the rest will follow, as if they have no minds of their own.

[Bola Montana @thebolamontana]

@Neriahs_world There are two sides of a coin after all