Enter ROMEO MONTAGUE: a young man of about eighteen years of age‚ born into an influential family‚ center stage in one of the greatest and most renowned love stories of all times. Enter JULIET CAPULET: a teenage girl‚ member of a powerful family that rivals the Montagues in a perpetually bloody feud. Romeo dreams of his true love Rosaline‚ while Juliet aspires to please her parents by securing a husband in the wealthy suitor Paris. However‚ the two meet at a party and their attraction is passionate
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William Shakespeare was an English poet‚ playwright‚ and actor‚ widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in history. One of his most famous plays‚ Romeo and Juliet (R&J)‚ was written in the late 1590’s and is still much loved by modern audiences. R & J is the story of two teenage lovers whose marriage is doomed from the beginning because they come from feuding families. This story has been made into a movie by many film producers but 2 of the most famous were Zeferrelli’s in 1968 and Luhrmann’s
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Likewise‚ the movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet that Luhrmann created can be compared to Zeffirelli’s in the same manner: both movies show Shakespeare’s original themes of love‚ fate and tragedy. However‚ Luhrmann’s movie takes a twist on the original story‚ using drama‚ music‚ and a modern theme to ultimately portray shakespeare’s intentions to teens in a similar‚ yet compelling‚ manner. Zeffirelli and Luhrmann movie adaptations are both based on Romeo and Juliet. Zeffirelli’s version is distinctly
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Although similar to Shakespeare’s original play‚ the movie Romeo + Juliet (1996) also has differences. Firstly‚ both the movie and the play show a religious society with Elizabethan era law and values. Secondly‚ the characters in the movie and play have the same relationships‚ friends‚ and enemies. In contrast‚ the movie shows that the people have modern technology including guns‚ cars‚ helicopters‚ and computers. However‚ these modern technologies do not exist in the play. Lastly‚ the people in
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A foil character contrasts the personalities of another character‚ which particularly enlightens certain characteristics of the individual. This element portrays these characteristics in an obvious manner‚ as it benefits the reader or audience. By showing the characteristics of one‚ it directly heightens the character traits of the other‚ creating a foil illustration of an individual. Nowhere is this element of literature more prudent than in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ as he effectively
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the versions of the dearly loved Romeo and Juliet‚ the 1968 version executes the story the finest compared to the written play and the 1997 movie. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that is engrossed by the love of the two star crossed lovers urning to be with one another. In the 1968 movie‚ the actors playing the lead characters implement the love and affection that captures the concept of Romeo and Juliet’s love. During the very famous balcony scene‚ Romeo and Juliet really see each other for the first
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Romeo and Juliet is about two young people that try to keep their love for each other from their feuding families… Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare ‚an English writer‚ in the early years of his career from 1594-1595. Romeo is a static character that is interested in love not violence. He is 16 years old and part of the Montague family. Romeo is heartbroken throughout the story. Although the sadness gets to him he is very impulsive and brave. In the play‚ Romeo starts off very
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The more I have‚ for both are infinite”(William Shakespeare) This is the memorable line from a classic story of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet has some adaptations that no knows which truly resembles Shakespeare play. So by picking two adaptations of Romeo and Juliet the people can get a feel what Shakespeare should be like. Zefferelli’s Romeo and Juliet is a lot more precise to Shakespeare’s playwright than Luhrmann’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by comparing and contrasting the movies to the
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The Shakespearean Sonnet in "Romeo and Juliet" [http://www.amazon.com/Romeo-Juliet-William-Shakespeare/dp/1844285200%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1844285200] Shakespeare uses sonnets to express his feelings‚ expressions‚ and emotions regarding romance and tragedy‚ the main themes of his "Romeo and Juliet." Over the centuries sonnets have been considered as high forms of literature‚ which have been extensively
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you feel like you were in the exact time period that it would have taken place in. The older version also did a better job staying true to what Shakespeare originally was presenting in the play. The second takes much more liberty in what the characters do and how they do it. The more modern version changed many of the things from the original play. Romeo‚ at one point‚ took a mind altering substance that
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