Romeo and Juliet‚ the dramatic love story everyone knows. Many times the play by William Shakespeare is compared to the movie produced by Baz Luhrman. Most always when movies are compared to the books‚ the books are better‚ but not quite in this case. Yes‚ the play is very good as well as the movie‚ but the play has its great parts‚ and its not so great parts as well. Just like the movie‚ it also has its good parts also many things that are the same in both the movie and play‚ but of course they
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English 1/31/2014 Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare was an amazing writer and performer in London during the 16th century. He created many successful plays; one of his most famous is Romeo and Juliet. The play is known particularly for its spectacular balcony scene. Romeo and Juliet has also been recreated or incorporated into popular movies by numerous people. The two most famous recreations were made by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 and Baz Luhrmann in 1997‚ both doing their own version of the balcony
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destined to fall in love from opposing households‚ ultimately driving themselves to suicide due to their forbidden relationship. In the play‚ Romeo and Juliet misunderstanding and miscommunication resulted in the deaths of Mercutio‚ Romeo‚ and Paris. One of the most tragic deaths in the play‚ Romeo’s suicide is purely performed due to the miscommunication between Romeo and his community. The need to hide their love from their community is the main
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In a group of friends there are always people that are different from each other. In the book “Romeo and Juliet” Mercutio and Benvolio are good friends‚ but still act very differently. In Benvolio and Mercutio’s conversation Shakespeare shows us that Mercutio does not care and is crazy by the way he talks to other people and the way he acts. Shakespeare displays to us that Mercutio does not care in line 38. Mercutio is told that the Capulets are coming and he says‚ “By my heel‚ I care not.” Mercutio’s
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We have come across many different tales that tells the story of a lover. One of the famous love story throughout the time is Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet". Romeo and Juliet are two lovers who despite their family differences fall in love and goes through all that comes their way. This story tells us how true and pure love is. No matter what differences we have love will overcome all of it. Similarly‚ there are many other stories that shows the power of love. In today’s world it is very hard
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Romeo and Juliet - Zeffirelli and Luhrmann The two main film interpretations of Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet" are Zeffirelli’s‚ made in 1968‚ and Luhrmann’s‚ made in 1997. Although they use the same original script written by Shakespeare‚ these two films are very different. Zeffirelli’s is set in the 16th century‚ at the time when the screenplay would have first been written whereas Luhrmann has set his film in modern time but still using the Shakespearian language. The most popular and well-known
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This train of thought for a teenage girl can even be seen in Elizabethan England when William Shakespeare wrote his play Romeo and Juliet. In the play of star crossed lovers Juliet is assumed to be a teenage girl at the time that she had met Romeo. There is much dab ate about whether or not there was an actual love between the two or if it was simply lust. After a chance meeting the two teenagers fall madly and deeply in love at a
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Romeo and Juliet are two lovers during the Great Depression living in Georgia. Romeo comes from a wealthy family‚ whereas Juliet is from a formerly rich family who lost all their money in the stock market crash. They met in a diner where Juliet was with her friends and family. Romeo’s family disagrees with marrying someone so poor‚ so they are banned from seeing each other. Juliet is poor: she wears old hand-me-downs from her mom‚ and has long brown hair with mismatched shoes. Romeo is rich and wears
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system anything is possible. In this story‚ Romeo and Juliet never really had that support tho having both parents in their life. They never had this support because there parents were too busy fighting with one another over a stupid feud. I believe that this story would be much different if the parents spent more time loving and paying attention to their children instead of arguing and fighting. Nurse and Friar Laurence were there for Juliet and Romeo in the selection when their biological parents
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Control is the main theme in Shakespeare’s play‚ Romeo & Juliet. Power is presented by fate‚ love and parental control. Shakespeare clearly demonstrates that Lord Capulet is a very protective father. This is because in Act 1 scene 2 Capulet says “ hopeful lady of my earth” In this quote Shakespeare shows that Capulet is a loving and protective father because children died easily and the words ‘hopeful lady’ means that Juliet was his only hope ‚ Juliet was very precious for him because she was his
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