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    Gentlemen‚ today I am here to talk to you about how Romeo and Juliet is relevant today. More specifically how the theme of love displayed is relevant in modern society. Love‚ its everywhere. Its human nature to love and be loved. Whether its the 1800s or the year 3013 love will never go out of fashion. The first notion of love in the play is when Romeo is infatuated with Rosaline. His love for her is quick‚ childish and unrequited. Shakespeare presents Romeo as merely being in love with the idea of being

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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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    Romeo and Juliet Speech Modern text creators make Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ very accessible through the film ‘Gnomeo and Juliet’ and the Nextel Commercial. This is done by using key themes and textual features‚ and creating an understandable and relatable representation of the original play script.* ‘Gnomeo and Juliet’ directed by Kelly Asbury uses a wide variety of textual features; for example‚ the ‘split-house’ effect in the beginning of the movie‚ and the sequence of symbolic objects

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    In "Romeo and Juliet" a play‚ by William Shakespeare as a result of falling in love Juliet transform by being a girl lacking experience and maturity‚ looks to adult to guide her decisions‚ to becoming and independent woman.In I‚iii Juliet isa girl lacking experience and maturity‚ looks to adult to guide her decisions.In III‚ii Juliet is becoming an independent woman.In III‚v Juliet is an independent woman. In I‚iii of "Romeo and Juliet" a play‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Juliet is still a girl lacking

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    Sorry guys but this is not actually complete‚ so its a tad bit rough. Romeo and Juliet Speech By Jordan Kirkaldy If you watch the news you will see that contemporary teenage audiences of today are motivated by selfishness‚ lust‚ immaturity‚ and violence. These themes have been relevant to teenagers all through time‚ even that of the innocent and romantic couple in the play Romeo and Juliet. Although the main characters are wholly in love and cannot bear to be apart they are unable to escape

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    Shakepeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet 1996 film adaption. In the play Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare explores the themes of conflict and rebellion and their tragic consequences. I strongly believe that Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet is the superior text as it conveys the same themes‚ however adapts them through the medium of film which is more enjoyable than a play for a modern audience and he has done this in order to convey a version of Romeo and Juliet

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    In the film Romeo+Juliet (1996)‚ Luhrmann puts a new‚ fresh spin on Shakespeare’s classic play‚ Romeo and Juliet. While staying somewhat true to the original play‚ he shapes the dialogue‚ acting‚ and setting to bring the star crossed lovers into the present. This makes it more appealing and approachable to a modern audience. One might argue that the mixture of modern scenery and accents and Shakespearean English is an unsatisfying hybrid‚ and that a remake should either edit the language so it

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    Romeo and Juliet essay Baz Lurhman’s modern film interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been a very successful transformation of the classic‚ original play to a modern context of Los. Angelos gang warfare. Lurhman’s film manages to relate the 16th century play to a modern audience while at the same time maintaining textual integrity of the play. He has retained the plot‚ and language of the original text at the same time as conveying Shakespeare’s

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    Romeo And Juliet Compare William Shakespeare’s Play with Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet Ideas: Power‚ Inequality‚ Loyalty Vs. disloyalty Word Count 860 Context has been a major faction contributing to the way Romeo and Juliet was written. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ Baz Luhrmann produced a Romeo and Juliet with a modern context rather than an Elizabethan context. Context has influenced the language and representation of ideas throughout Romeo and Juliet‚ notably with the themes: Loyalty

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    Ben Weissler 8/15/07 The origins of Shakespeare’s play "Romeo and Juliet" are relatively unknown. It’s hard to believe‚ but this archetypal theme of ill-fated love predates Shakespeare by more than a thousand years. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "archetype" as: the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies. One of the first pieces of written work to include this common archetype of ill-fated love was Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe." Written

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