ROMEO AND JULIET i) What is the theme of the film/play Romeo & Juliet? There are many themes in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Different people find many different themes; it all depends on ones point of view. Some common themes are: Love‚ Fate and Hatred. Each of these themes is discussed below in relation to the film/play. LOVE Love in Romeo and Juliet is not that really‚ idealized emotion. The love Romeo and Juliet share is beautiful and passionate. It is pure‚ exhilarating‚ and transformative
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easy. In Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare demonstrates that young people struggle in life depending on their maturity level. Shakespeare shows that three people in the play are struggling to deal maturely with different challenges Romeo‚ Juliet and Tybalt are placed with the same problems. Romeo is faced with challenges throughout the entire play. Romeo is forced to figure out a plan and follow it. His maturity level causes his actions to fail. Romeo shows very
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Chloe Mendiola Period 2 22 April 2013 Compare and Contrast-Act I The 1968 film of “Romeo and Juliet” is not completely different from the 1998 film but they do have many differences. Although both films kept to the original story of the play‚ the 1968 film was more of a traditional interpretation than the 1998 film. Right when the movie begins in the 1998 film‚ there is something different from the 1968 film. At the beginning of the fight scene in scene 1 it shows Benvolio with the servants
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Zeffirelli vs Luhrmann When you think of a love story‚ Romeo and Juliet is always one of the first to come to mind. This great tragedy is a timeless story that will be told for many generations to come. It tells the story about two star crossed lovers that were held apart by their clashing families. Two men came along that wanted to share this classic story with the rest of the world. Franco Zeffirelli created his movie version in 1968. 28 years later‚ Baz Luhrmann came along and also created his
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Shakespeare’s Message in Romeo and Juliet The two most powerful forces in human nature are love and hate. William Shakespeare is able to contradict these forces and tests them against each other in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet must overcome the hate of their despiteful families to be with one another for they have fallen into a deep‚ passionate love. Although hate does a lot of damage and causes a lot of pain between these "star crossed lovers" and their
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Romeo & Juliet Essay Fate‚ most people don’t even believe in it; in fact some don’t even know what it is. There are many definitions of Fate‚ but most seem to revolve around something like a force—in which no one can control—in life. But one of the few people—in that small percentage—that do believe in fate‚ so happens to include William Shakespeare himself‚ and he tries to proof Fate to be true through figurative language and incidents‚ in his book Romeo and Juliet. This story is about two families
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plans may not succeed. In the novel‚ Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare‚ Friar Laurence has good intentions of wedding two teen lovers and helping them succeed in spending their lives together. However‚ his plans do not conquer. The marriage of Romeo and Juliet‚ Juliet’s potion and Friar Laurence’s fleeing of Juliet’s tomb are all examples that show Friar Laurence’s well-meaning actions ending in disastrous results. The marriage of Romeo and Juliet is one example of Friar Laurence’s
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wall” (1.1.15-17). This expresses the utter most hate that the two families have for each other. It is obvious that the parents are to blame from this instance because if they did not feud with one another‚ then it would not be a problem for Romeo and Juliet to fall in love. Also‚ if the families had not been fighting‚ the fight between their servants‚ Sampson‚ Gregory‚ and Abram‚ would never have happened. This brawl led to amplified hate because it brought back age-old problems the reader is uninformed
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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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Romeo and Juliet The play Romeo and Juliet has been made into a movie by many different directors. Franco Zefferelli 1968’s version of Romeo and Juliet is better than Baz Luhrmann 1996’s version of Romeo and Juliet. Zefferelli’s film is better than Luhrmann’s film because it is faithful to the actual play with suited costumes‚ music‚ text‚ and setting. Zefferelli’s 1968 film of Romeo and Juliet is better than the 1996 version because the lines of the actors are faithful to the play and the costumes
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