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    Romeo is the son and heir of Montague and Lady Montague but is also best friends with Mercutio and his cousin Benvolio. Romeo has a stronger bond to Friar Lawrence than he does with his parent and this makes the Friar the father figure of Romeo just like how the nurse is for Juliet. Verona respected and loved him; in addition‚ he was also a handsome man who falls easily in and out of love. During the play‚ Romeo’s character evolves from adolescence to adulthood as a result of his love for Juliet

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    1968

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    Alex Zimmerman Debbie Wikstrom HIS-203 5/8/13 1968 film The year 1968 is considered one of the most turbulent‚ and pivotal‚ twelve month periods in American history. This single year was a flashpoint for many of the social‚ political‚ and cultural transformations for which the overall decade of the 1960s is known. During these years‚ the United States became entrenched in an unpopular war in Vietnam abroad‚ while unrest‚ experimentation‚ violence‚ and outspokenness raged throughout the nation

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    Romeo and Juliet act upon their emotions instead of their intellect‚ leading both Romeo and Juliet to their tragic end. To begin‚ the first characters that contribute to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet by thinking with their heart are Sampson and Gregory. As they are not protagonists in this story‚ but they are servants of the Capulet family. In Verona‚ two families have been fighting for many years. It has gotten to the point where they don’t even know why they are fighting. Sampson and Gregory

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    their choices. William Shakespeare also examines these two themes in several of his works‚ including Romeo and Juliet. His well-known play is about two teenagers who fall in love‚ but are said to be doomed as a couple because they come from feuding families. The lovers struggle to make their relationship work because they cannot publicly be together. At the end of the play‚ Romeo believes Juliet is dead

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    Extended Essay‚ my goal is to show the extent of the resemblance between the two literary works. Coming from different parts of the world‚ the two stories have been passed down and famously known for several generations. British Literature‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ and Persian tale‚ Laila Majnu‚ share many commonalities‚ which piqued my curiosity into finding out how much they are actually similar‚ and not to be confused with a translation and different title. The two do share differences in the context

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    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 in 1996. I believe Baz Luhrmann’s movie was the most believable and portrayed

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    Chaos In Romeo And Juliet

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    Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet movie adaptation‚ the director shows the length chaos will go by incorporating a variety of effects during the prologue. For example‚ the director‚ Baz Luhrmann has chosen canted angles that are used continually throughout the prologue‚ creating unbalance and playing onto the theme of impulsivity and how it creates unbalance in one’s life. It evokes disorder and uneasiness in the scene‚ which is something that happens throughout the love story of Romeo and Juliet. Their love

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    Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet 23rd April 2013 Today we discussed casting options with Ade‚ this included the task which included creating three different casting options for Romeo & Juliet. One which consisted of people in our class‚ one which consisted of Characters we already know from movies/plays and one which consisted of animals. My Student Cast:- Romeo – Thomas moore Benvolio – Cameron Abram – Magenta Lord Montague – Ross McKenzie Lady Montague –Megan Taylor Juliet –Arietta (god

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    Romeo and Juliet Quotes

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    Romeo   Quote     Ay  me‚  sad  hours  seem  long.   O  heavy  lightness‚  serious  vanity.   A  choking  gall‚  and  a  preserving  sweet.   I  have  a  soul  of  lead.   Too  rude‚  too  boisterous‚  and  it  pricks  like   a  thorn.     I  fear…  some  consequence  yet  hanging  in   the  stars‚  some  vile  forfeit  of  untimely

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    Directing Romeo and Juliet

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    Directing Romeo and Juliet Being a director in a production such as Romeo and Juliet is no easy task‚ and I enter into this paper with that in mind. My goals are to be creative‚ and do things differently from the many versions of the play we have viewed in class. Each of those directors took the original text‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ and turned it into a unique version of their own; unique in the sense that they changed the tragedy by taking out lines‚ conversation or even entire scenes

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