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    However‚ in spite of the many differences‚ there are similarities between the two stories. Romeo and Juliet and “Teen Couple Executed by their Parents…for daring to fall in love‚” both involve the deaths of the couples all happening at a young age‚ all of them dying before the age of 19 before any of their parents died. Throughout both stories a common factor is that the couples were forced to make adult decisions about their lives and love lives; while‚ the adults around them were making many poor

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    Busekrus Mr. Chance English‚ per. 5 15/5/18 English Final Essay As we can see In The Odyssey by Homer and in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare even though men are supposed to be the ones in control it seems that these authors wanted the women to be also empowered rather than the just the men. Penelope and Juliet play significant roles and help guide the plot. Both the epic and playwright are about two lovers who are separated and everything is against their odds

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    once said‚ “There is only one happiness in this life‚ to love and be love.” Romeo and Juliet is a fictional story about two characters who are forbidden to love each other‚ loving each other brought them happiness but ended causing more pain than happiness. Their families are rivals and it has gotten to the point that if the two families are caught fighting then they will be killed. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ the two main characters find themselves at vulnerable points in their life

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    Romeo and Juliet The trailer for Julian Fellowes and Carlo Carlei’s Romeo and Juliet (2013) conveyed the theme of romantic love through its portrayal of romantic‚ violent and tragic events‚ emphasizing on a love that transcends hate. The trailer began with ‘Never was a story a more woe than this‚ a Juliet and her Romeo’‚ which is similar to the last lines of the play (Act 5.3.320-321). Apart from the despondent usage of words‚ the narrator also delivered the line somberly‚ foreshadowing their tragic

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    The Dicaprio version of Romeo and Juliet is more modern based. In the movie‚ instead of swords‚ they use guns instead. The settings are much more surprising and fun to see. This made the movie much more entertaining. These characters wear clothes that people nowadays wear too. They drive around in cars and there are even helicopter. Although they look like modern people to us‚ they still talk in a tone shake spear had intended them to sound like. The Montague’s look more like they’re a gang than

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    Romeo and juliet by william shakespeare‚ is a romantic play about to people who fall in love at first sight. Their tragic love story comes to an end only five days after meeting each other. They both die at the end of the heartbreaking story because they “loved” each other so much. Many years after the play was written people still ask themselves‚ was it true love? Or obsession? Or infatuation? The hectic love story‚ of romeo and juliet‚ is about the idea of two people loving each other and being

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    Romeo and Juliet‚ a classic tragic play‚ was written by Shakespeare in the late 1500’s. In the play the Montagues’ and Capulets’‚ two families who deeply despise each other‚ have a boy and a girl that meet at a party and fall passionately in love becoming star-crossed lovers. Their love was magical and forbidden making it all the sweeter. All is well until Romeo and Tybalt fight to the death and Romeo wins; Romeo’s punishment‚ exile. Then‚ only chaos and disaster follows. Shakespeare uses similes

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    characters of a tragedy created by a playwright known as William Shakespeare. These main characters are Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. Just as us‚ Romeo and Juliet undergo similar‚ but more severe changes than do we. And just about everything about their life was rushed‚ especially since their mid-life crisis transpired around the age of sixteen. At the commencement of these occurrences‚ Romeo was like any other teenage guy in this area. He was not at a very mature point in his life. His mind

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    In the movie Romeo and Juliet their teen rebellion was so strong they disobeyed what they were told. Which was not to have contact or a sexual relationship‚ because the age difference but that did not stop them. A movie i can compare to Romeo and Juliet is everything everything. Everything everything is a movie about a 18-year-old Madeline Whittier‚ who is being treated for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)‚ also known as "bubble baby disease". While she was being treated in her own house

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    1 Chase Kuykendall4/4/2018Assignment 2.6 Our differences do not define us‚ what defines us is how we act‚ and how we portray ourselves. If you acted out‚ and foolish you would be defined as a fool. Just because of your 50 years old‚ doesn’t mean that you don’t like the same thing as let’s say a 29 year old. Or because you have a dark color of skin‚ or a white skin‚ we all are the same on the inside‚ and that’s all that matters. The only way we define ourselves is the way you act in life‚ if

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