“O Romeo‚ Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?” (Juliet‚ Act 2‚ Scene 2). One of the best known lines in “Romeo and Juliet”‚ a play written by the famous William Shakespeare. One of the most distinct themes in the play‚ is about the different types of love. There is the puppy love that Romeo has for Rosaline in the beginning of the movie‚ the friendly love between Juliet and the nurse‚ and the romantic love seen between Romeo and Juliet. The play simply would not be the same if any of these relationships
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Compare your reading of Lord Capulet in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ with the same character in Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation. Romeo and Juliet is generally believed to have been a poem based on a real Italian love story from the 3rd century‚ Shakespeare wrote his version of the poem as a play in 1594. Baz Luhrmann then created his version of Shakespeare’s play as a movie in 1996‚ this adaptation of Shakespeare’s play was a commercial success‚ proving particularly popular with teenage film viewers
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Romeo & Juliet Movie Analysis Year 10 English Mrs Douglass Good morning/afternoon Mrs Douglass and class. Today I will be comparing two versions of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. One of the films was produced in the year 1996; this was directed by Baz Luhrmann. The two main roles of Romeo and Juliet were played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. The other film being analysed was directed by Franco Zefirelli‚ it was released in 1968. Leonard Whiting had
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Johns 1 Kayla Johns Ms. Bowman Honors English 9 26 May 2013 3B The Irony of Relationships Adults and teens: not a likely scenario. In the tragedy‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ it was essential to the plot. Shakespeare uses the relationship between Juliet and the Nurse and Romeo and Friar Lawrence to prove that children need adult figures in their life and it may not be their parents. Juliet is the thirteen year old daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet. The Nurse is Juliet’s caretaker and confidante. Romeo is the
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‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare is a romance tragedy play that displays the theme love. However‚ hate and fate are other themes that are also revealed throughout the play through various Shakespearean and film techniques. Love is one of the main ideas in the play. The play revolves around the romantic and mutual love between the protagonists; Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. This love is displayed in Act 1‚ Scene 4 where Romeo meets Juliet at the Capulet feast. A sonnet is used to show
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Despite being written two centuries after Romeo and Juliet‚ The Laboratory by Robert Browning‚ taken from the 1842 collection‚ Dramatic Lyrics‚ explores many aspects of conflict that relate to both the Elizabethan and Victorian societies. Written as a dramatic monologue rather than a play‚ Browning uses the poem to expose how jealousy and envy lead to a catastrophic build-up of internal conflict‚ which results in her desire kill her rival by poisoning her in the presence of her lover. However‚ while
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sorry for Juliet in Act 3‚ Scene 5 The conversation between Romeo and Juliet at the beginning of the act is also important; the discussion about the true nature of the bird outside the window resembles a couple. However‚ there is a note of sadness‚ just as they couldn’t overturn the social prejudice that keeps them apart‚ they can’t turn dawn into night. They must be kept apart. One way Shakespeare makes the audience fell sorry for Juliet‚ is through the contrast between Romeo & Juliet. In the
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Firstly‚ Romeo and Juliet’s love is not only just doomed by world around it but by progressing so quickly from their first meeting to expressing their actual love for each other. Their love is not only affected by the fighting of the two houses but also by their immediate love for each other. Furthermore‚ Romeo and Juliet are both supposedly in other love situations‚ Romeo is meant to be with Rosaline. However‚ as soon as he sees Juliet he falls for her looks and is deeply in love not knowing a thing
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Firstly‚ Romeo and Juliet should stay on the Preliminary English reading list because of its wide range of language techniques. Through the effective use of metaphor‚ oxymoron and hyperbole‚ Shakespeare is able to expose to us to the use of literary techniques to educate us through the practice of reading Shakespearean language. The use of oxymoron is shown when Romeo boasts out “O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Mis - shapen chaos of well - seeming forms. Feather of lead‚ bright smoke‚ cold fire
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In “Romeo and Juliet” Shakespeare’s his most famous play he shows the tension of two lovers trying to come together but with the burden of two rival families tearing them apart. Love is the overriding theme of the play‚ but a reader/ audience should always know that Shakespeare is not trying portraying a prettied-up‚ dainty version of the emotion‚ that writers of that era .This romantic drama was written in London in the 1590’s and was finally published in 1597 by a man called Thomas Creede. The
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