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    Shakespeare was a marvellous play writer and his best play was Romeo and Juliet‚ in the story he mixed the themes of love and violence. This will show you how and why he did this. The play is about romance; Shakespeare begins in the most peculiar way for instance‚ in the beginning of Act 1 Scene 1. Firstly he starts with violence with the houses arguing with each other and trying to resolve with a fight. Gregory bites his thumb (a highly rude gesture to the Montague’s). Then a verbal argument

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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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    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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    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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    In the play‚ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare. During the play many tragic event’s occur throughout the play‚ but many people were responsible. The main points are when Mercutio started the fight between Tybalt and himself‚ which caused Romeo to be banished from Verona‚ Friar Laurance was mostly responsible for horrible events and the person that locked Friar John because fears that John had the plague; then John couldn’t deliver the message to Romeo about the Friar Laurance’s plan. Depending

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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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    Baz Luhrmann’s version of “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet”‚ who is also the director of Strictly ballroom‚ is a bold adaptation of the world’s famous tragedy. He offers a trendy‚ contemporary re-telling of the classic love story with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Romeo and Clare Danes’ Juliet. Even though it is set in a modern day Verona‚ it still shows the beauty of the romance and keeps in Shakespeare’s dialogue. Juliet is a naïve‚ obedient girl at the beginning of the story‚ having not experienced

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