I believe that the (1961)‘West Side Story’ film version of Romeo and Juliet is superior to the later version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ directed in 1968 by Franco Zeffirelli. Jerome Robbins‚ the director of ‘West Side Story’‚ having a different aim/ representation of Romeo and Juliet has used various effective techniques to produce his film – which I consider to be more successful. Robbins chose it to be a transformation of Romeo and Juliet & not the original play from Shakespeare‚ but that’s not the
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especially when it comes to young love. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare‚ two characters Romeo and Juliet‚ exhibit the importance of being mature‚ and the reason why maturity influences people’s actions and emotions. Sometimes maturity can be seen through Juliet‚ and other times it is the exact opposite and can be seen through Romeo. Firstly‚ Juliet expresses her maturity by respecting her elders and accepting their wishes. Juliet obediently agrees with her mother of accepting Paris’
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Romeo and Juliet “A tale of the young for the young” By Laura Marinos Throughout the 20th Century‚ there have been several attempts to transform William Shakespeare’s famous works into a modern context‚ with The Lion King based on Hamlet and 10 Things I Hate About You as a loose transformation of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course‚ there have been two successful transformations already based on Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy‚ Romeo and Juliet; West Side Story and Zeferelli’s Romeo and Juliet
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ a play adapted extensively into films‚ musicals‚ and operas‚ itself borrowed from an Italian tale; The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke‚ 1562 and Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1582. Romeo and Juliet became one of Shakespeare’s most well-known tragedies. Baz Luhrman’s 1996 feature film Romeo + Juliet took on the challenge of adapting Shakespeare’s play into film. While retaining the original script‚ Luhrman changed almost everything
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In the play "Romeo and Juliet" a series of unfortunate the circumstances and illogical decisions force the protagonists into an impossible position ultimately resulting in their death. As Il-fated as the two "star-crossed lover’s" may have been the root of all their problems can be traced back to rash decisions by characters and circumstances placed unfairly on characters by warped societal expectations. While the Friar had nothing but the best intentions his illogical and somewhat naive decisions
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After reading the play “Romeo and Juliet”‚ we know the character of Juliet and her behavior. Is her behavior selfish or not? I think there are many arguments to support both views‚ but in my view that I think her behaviour is selfish. Firstly‚ Juliet was born into a rich and complex family and she is an only child in this family. This condition makes her behavior more selfish as because of her suicide‚ there would be no one to look after her parents. Moreover‚ her family and her lover’s family
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When William “The Bard” Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet around 1596‚ he had no idea that hundreds of years later middle school students from around the globe would be reading it. There are many reasons why teenagers read his famous play‚ but one of the main ones is to tell them what not to do. Educators everywhere want to show that there is a better way out of things than death‚ while also teaching kids how to read old English‚ and introducing kids to one of the most influential writers of all
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Anais Nin once said‚ “You don’t find love‚ it finds you. Its got a little bit to do with destiny‚ fate‚ and what’s written in the stars.” This quote relates strongly to Romeo and Juliet because due to the bad fates of their family‚ they ended up dying for each other. Juliet and Romeo fell in love by accident‚ something completely out of their control. This makes Shakespeare’s play much more tragic because they weren’t given a choice on how they were to end up‚ the way Shakespeare made it was either
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tension had been mounting‚ barely controlled by the Prince’s feeble orders‚ and something had to give. Enter Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. Perhaps they could have brought peace to Verona without all the bloodshed were they not so ill advised. As it were these young lovers set into action events much larger than themselves. Aside from the lovers four other people were killed. Mercutio‚ Tybalt‚ Lady Montague and Paris were all victims of an infectious hatred beyond their control. They shall be
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The story of Romeo and Juliet contains many controversial topics that are mainly focused on teenagers. The most amazing fact about this story is that even though this story was written hundreds of years ago‚ the teenagers today still go through the same ordeals or‚ even wonderful events as well. One of these important topics in this story was friendship. Romeo and Mercurito’s friendship was portrayed as what people would call today a "best friends" status. This was quite obvious in the text and
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