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    Shakespeare’s timeless classic Romeo and Juliet illustrates the depth of human emotion‚ particularly despair and joy. This is shown through three specific characters in the play. Romeo has frequent mood swings and often forgets about his previous emotions very quickly. Juliet is always changing from one extreme to the other. She is either really happy or really sad. Lastly‚ Mercutio displays a lot of sass and attitude. These are all emotions typically felt by adolescents and are displayed well throughout

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    in Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” indicate how hastiness leads to tragedy. Romeo’s impulsive first impression towards love illustrates how he‚ as any other teenager‚ is blinded by beauty and one’s beauteous presence. Disowning their families by loving an enemy foreshadows the fact that Romeo and Juliet will go to any extent to be together. This tragic play script depicts the unwary lives of two lovers as they hide their love from their parents. The male protagonist‚ Romeo of the Shakespeare’s

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    Romeo and Juliet Speech Modern text creators make Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ very accessible through the film ‘Gnomeo and Juliet’ and the Nextel Commercial. This is done by using key themes and textual features‚ and creating an understandable and relatable representation of the original play script.* ‘Gnomeo and Juliet’ directed by Kelly Asbury uses a wide variety of textual features; for example‚ the ‘split-house’ effect in the beginning of the movie‚ and the sequence of symbolic objects

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    Romeo and Juliet is a story of a forbidden love between two teenagers from enemy families that is resolved in two tragic deaths. Romeo and Juliet were tragic and not stupid. They were two teenagers who fell in love‚ and it was not their fault their love turned to a tragedy. The main causes for the tragic end of the play were fate‚ the ancient feud between the Capulets and the Montagues‚ the way things had gone out of control for them and the fact they could not do anything about it. One of the

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    Major Theme in Romeo & Juliet – The Meaning of Gender A major theme in Romeo and Juliet is the meaning of gender. Romeo and Juliet puts forward a myriad of points concerning masculinity. One example is Mercutio‚ who enjoys quarreling‚ fencing and joking. Mercutio is a character who enjoys showing off and displaying his authority and wit. He has definite ideas about what masculinity should look like. He criticizes Tybalt for being too interested in his clothes and for speaking with a fake accent

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    The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare shares the archetypal love story between two lovers of opposing households. Aside from the title‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ meets the criteria of a tragedy by emphasizing the protagonists’ tragic flaw in the process of their fall. Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet falls best under phase two tragedy due to the tragedy of innocence and confusion in an adult situation. Phase six tragedy does not apply to Romeo and Juliet because neither the

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    play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ two families‚ the Capulets and the Montagues‚ have a strong hatred for each other. In the beginning of the play‚ people learn that Romeo Montague had his heart broken by a woman named Rosaline. Later‚ he met Juliet at a party and they fell in love. A few moments later they found out that their families were rivals‚ but they didn’t care because they wanted to be with each other. So the following day‚ Juliet insisted that they get

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    wrought with sexual overtones‚ with the various servants speaking of raping the enemy’s women. The sexual wordplay will continue throughout the play‚ becoming extremely bawdy and at times offensive‚ yet also underlying the love affair between Romeo and Juliet. The disorder within the play is evidenced by inverted circumstances. Servants start the quarrel‚ but soon draw the noblemen into the brawl. The young men enter the fight‚ but soon the old men try to deny their age and fight as well. The fact

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    Verona Times Monday 4th march 1597 Verona Times Monday 4th march 1597 Love kills “Romeo and Juliet” Once again the feud between the Capulet and Montague families has disturbed the peace and quiet in Verona. This time we have lost more than just peace we have lost lives. We still don’t know which party is too be blamed but we do have a story. According to witnesses the two groups

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    Romeo and Juliet: Freedom

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    Both Romeo and Juliet are very free characters but there’s one of them that’s really free‚ and I think it’s Romeo. I think that Romeo is more free than Juliet because he’s never with his parents. He’s always running around town without them. On the other hand‚ Juliet is always with her parents. She’s always around them and never leaves their sight. One reason I think this is that Romeo crashes the party of the enemy of their family. Another thing that convinces me of this is he kisses Juliet under

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