Touch me essay (In speech form) Good morning my fellow year 9 & year 10 peers. Today I’ll be talking about the hot topic of "Gender roles limit and restrict". Have you ever felt painstakingly sickened of being told that women and girls in today’s patriarchal society are considered soft‚ delicate‚ weak and homebound? I don’t know about you; however I find this stereotypical assumption demeaning and unrealistic. My English class is doing a unit called ‘Stepping out of male stereotypes’. The purpose
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boring right? Wrong. The classic story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare has had a makeover by famous Australian director Baz Lurhman to create a modern narrative we can relate to‚ using all of the original play-script language by Shakespeare. Released in 1996‚ Romeo and Juliet is a film which plays with the idea of love‚ hate‚ family and everything in between. The scene we have chosen is at a ball at the Capulet mansion‚ Juliet’s family‚ where Romeo first lays eyes on the heavenly Juliet
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“Romeo and Juliet” is a love story that will make you tear up and make you hate love stories. Love stories like Romeo and Juliet are very hard to watch without cringing and feeling obsessed. Romeo and Juliet is a very popular story that Zeffirelli and Luhrmann made different versions of it. Zeffirelli’s film was nominated for best director and best picture. The party scene is the main focus mostly for everyone because it is when the two star-cross’d lovers meet and fell in love at first sight. In
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writers use counterparts to highlight key traits of characters‚ as well as themes and other literary techniques. Most main characters have foils to show their importance. The more alike two characters are‚ the more their different traits stick out. Whether it is a couple of lovers or villain against protagonist‚ counterparts are important in all literature. In William Shakespeare’s play‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ two star-crossed lovers are similar in their emotional dramatics and impatient mindset‚ but different
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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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Shakespeare’s famous ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is¬ named the greatest love story of all time‚ but is it true love or teenage lust? The story portrays two young people who fall in love and in the end take their own lives when they cannot be together‚ but are they really in love? So are Romeo and Juliet really star-crossed lovers? Or just two teens in lust who didn’t understand? In Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet‚ the two met at a costume party and immediately fell in love‚ however in
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Repeating the Past Romeo and Juliet tells the story of forbidden love between two children of feuding families‚ whose long standing grudge and violent fighting divide the Verona Beach during 1996-1595. By Declan Reibel Romeo and Juliet is a story that has been portrayed in many ways by many people in many styles. The most recent and modern adaptation is the version by Baz Luhrmann‚ made in 1996. It follows the original of Shakespeare’s 1595 play‚ but the modern take is designed to appeal
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Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is overviewed by the theme of conflict as it is explored within and between the families. Soliloquy‚ Character foil and Hyperbole are also used to create meaningful conflict and atmosphere between the characters‚ which defines the conflict that surrounds them. To begin with‚ Shakespeare shows the theme of conflict within Romeo and Juliet by exploring the conflict between the Capulets. In doing this‚ he uses the techniques of hyperboles to create tension between Juliet and
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Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In the opening prologue of the play‚ the chorus informs the audience that Romeo and Juliet are “Star Crossed Lovers”. What the chorus means by this is that Romeo and Juliet are controlled by fate‚ a force which is often related to the movements of the stars. No one can comprehend what fate has in store and neither did Romeo and Juliet. Fate is a powerful force‚ whether predestined or persuasions of your actions that will shape you lives‚ just as it did with Romeo and Juliet
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being a cop. So the film Zootopia isn’t a perfect place and neither is Romeo and Juliet. These issues in particular don’t exactly fit in perfectly with Verona’s society but they can fit. In Verona there are two households both alike in dignity the Capulets and the Montagues. Their feud has kept them at each other’s throats for decades or so. But their society is much different than Zootopia is. Besides the fact of talking animals. But there is Stereotyping in Romeo and Juliet
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