Romeo And Juliet Analysis

Romeo And Juliet
Compare William Shakespeare’s Play with Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet
Ideas: Power, Inequality, Loyalty Vs. disloyalty
Word Count 860
Context has been a major faction contributing to the way Romeo and Juliet was written. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Baz Luhrmann produced a Romeo and Juliet with a modern context rather than an Elizabethan context. Context has influenced the language and representation of ideas throughout Romeo and Juliet, notably with the themes: Loyalty Vs. Disloyalty, Power and inequality. These themes have changed the way Romeo and Juliet was written and put them into a different context.

A key theme of Romeo and Juliet that occurs throughout the play is Loyalty Vs. Disloyalty and the
Both Families are shown as being rich, though the Capulet’s being richer and more powerful of the two. William Shakespeare in the original Romeo And Juliet describes the Montagues and Capulets in the opening scene as “two households, both alike in dignity” (Prologue). Shakespeare is saying here that the Montages are both families, (or households) and that they both hold a position of power. As both of the families are wealthy, but the Capulet’s are depicted as being the wealthier of the two gangs in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, if Romeo showed his intentions of marrying Juliet, both families would of seen this as disloyalty to their
Context has impacted the conformation of Romeo and Juliet without a doubt Context has influenced how Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet and how Baz Luhrmann interpreted it into a film. Shakespeare and Baz Luhrmann have used the ideas of Power, Loyalty Vs. Disloyalty to show how two similar and dominant families have destroyed a young couple’s love that of Romeo and