Romeo and Juliet: Did Fate End it All? In the story‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ the two young lovers are destined to fall in love. The story‚ however‚ has a tragic ending. William Shakespeare foreshadows the theme of fate in the Prologue with the quote‚ “A pair of star crossed lovers take their life.” (Prologue‚ L6) Fate represents a greater power that predetermines events in their lives and is unchangeable. Back in William Shakespeare’s time‚ the Elizabethans believed that this power rules
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A common theme throughout Romeo and Juliet is the idea of duality. Duality can bedescribed as a combination of opposites such as good and evil‚ love and hate‚ or life and death.This theme is most apparent during a soliloquy of the Friar’s. The essence of what he is sayingis that everything has a true beneficial purpose‚ but things can be misused and perverted into evil. Nothing is purposely evil. He talks about duality most plainly with the line‚ “In man as well asherbs‚ grace and rude will;” (2
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Martin Martin 1 S. Ramirez English II: Period 4 12 March 2013 Romeo and Juliet play VS. Movie Some people believe that the movie ruined the play by taking out the most crucial parts. The director of the movie interpreted what Shakespeare had written. The play and the movie differ in many ways. The crucial parts that were changed include how Tybalt was killed‚ how Romeo was banished‚ and how Romeo and Juliet end up dying in the end. The differences between the play and the 1996 movie
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Romeo and Juliet. A tragic story about two young star-crossed lovers‚ known by many throughout the world. This story originally written by William Shakespeare‚ has been rewritten‚ performed and filmed numerous times with modified versions of the original script. Even though all of the different performances of this Shakespearean tragedy all revolve around the same concept‚ some performances and/or films better represent the original story when compared to others. This is the result of some of the
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literary works‚ 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
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The Charistics Of Romeo Everybody has heard of the saying the heart wants what it wants. if Romeo was In our modern era‚ he would really agree and relate to that saying. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet there was a lot of feud in between the Capulets and the Montagues. When Romeo and Juliet fell in love they knew it was a debacle to be together‚ but Romeo was willing to be mutinous. Through all the traumatic scenes in the play it has proven Romeo was very Beauty oriented‚ Sensitive‚ and
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Shakespeare was a marvellous play writer and his best play was Romeo and Juliet‚ in the story he mixed the themes of love and violence. This will show you how and why he did this. The play is about romance; Shakespeare begins in the most peculiar way for instance‚ in the beginning of Act 1 Scene 1. Firstly he starts with violence with the houses arguing with each other and trying to resolve with a fight. Gregory bites his thumb (a highly rude gesture to the Montague’s). Then a verbal argument
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death-marked love‚ / And the continuance of their parent’s rage‚ / Which‚ but their children’s end‚ naught could remove " -The Prologue‚ Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare). Fate plays a major role in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The prologue describes Romeo’s and Juliet’s fate‚ which we see come up many times later on in the play. Throughout the play‚ Romeo and Juliet unwittingly realize they cannot exist in such reality and that a tragic fate awaits them. The two families‚ the Montagues and the
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Ms. Christian Angel 13 June 2012 When I originally had heard about the ending to Romeo and Juliet‚ the idea of a double-suicide was somewhat ignorant to me. After reading this play‚ I can empathize on what those teens were going through. Love‚ for the most part‚ knows no boundaries‚ bias‚ or discrimination. This was shown very well in this Shakespeare-written play‚ and is a great example of showing the many themes that surround love‚ adolescence‚ and family rivalries. Although they could’ve handled
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Act 2‚ Scene 5 - Juliet and the Nurse "Sweet‚ sweet‚ sweet nurse‚ tell me‚ what says my love?" (RJ 2.5.55) In Zeffirelli’s version of Romeo and Juliet‚ Act 2‚ Scene 5‚ Juliet seems bratty and impatient because the nurse fails to deliver the information about Romeo as soon as she walks through the door. Luhrmann made his version more modern‚ and makes the characters kinder to emphasize their relationship. These movies contain some similarities and differences; they both use some of the same lines
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