Baz Luhrmann’s version of “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet”‚ who is also the director of Strictly ballroom‚ is a bold adaptation of the world’s famous tragedy. He offers a trendy‚ contemporary re-telling of the classic love story with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Romeo and Clare Danes’ Juliet. Even though it is set in a modern day Verona‚ it still shows the beauty of the romance and keeps in Shakespeare’s dialogue. Juliet is a naïve‚ obedient girl at the beginning of the story‚ having not experienced
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare shares the archetypal love story between two lovers of opposing households. Aside from the title‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ meets the criteria of a tragedy by emphasizing the protagonists’ tragic flaw in the process of their fall. Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet falls best under phase two tragedy due to the tragedy of innocence and confusion in an adult situation. Phase six tragedy does not apply to Romeo and Juliet because neither the
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Ah‚ Romeo and Juliet… it’s quite a lovely tale about two star crossed lovers who are destined for each other; the children who had such a pure love for one another but could not achieve it publicly due to both of their family’s hatred who believed the other house was just putred. Forcing them to keep their love secret and hidden so no one could see them. But as the story goes on‚ our two lovers killed themselves to achieve pure happiness in the afterlife for each other; making it quite a tragedy
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to the classic story of Romeo and Juliet by adding suspense and passion. Romeo and Juliet is a classic boy meets girl and it’s love at first sight kind of story‚ or it would be without this family feud nonsense. With the new aspect of forbidden love‚ the two lovers find themselves in a sticky situation. They must overcome many obstacles‚ but nothing can stop their tragic fate. The family feud is a situation that adds flame to the passionate encounters of Romeo and Juliet. It also helps create their
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wrought with sexual overtones‚ with the various servants speaking of raping the enemy’s women. The sexual wordplay will continue throughout the play‚ becoming extremely bawdy and at times offensive‚ yet also underlying the love affair between Romeo and Juliet. The disorder within the play is evidenced by inverted circumstances. Servants start the quarrel‚ but soon draw the noblemen into the brawl. The young men enter the fight‚ but soon the old men try to deny their age and fight as well. The fact
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The character that I chose from Romeo and Juliet is‚ of course‚ Mercutio. Mercutio is the friend of Romeo and Benvolio and the relative of Prince Escalus. He is extremely relevant to the plot‚ for Mercutio provoked Juliet’s cousin‚ Tybalt‚ causing the two to fight. "Come‚ sir‚ your passado." (III.i.80). Romeo attempted to intervene which gave Tybalt leverage to reach around him and stab Mercutio. The death of his friend angered Romeo‚ who then fought and killed Tybalt‚ thus granting him exile to Mantua
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It has happened. After Juliet and Romeo died to be together it brought Capulet and Montague closer. In Verona‚ Italy‚ Juliet and Romeo fell in love. They couldn’t be together because of their families rivalry. One night after Romeo caused the death of Tybalt‚ he was banned from the town and had to leave. Juliet drank something that made her seem dead but it was in a deep sleep. The plan was for Romeo to come to Juliet’s tomb and wake her with a kiss and run off together and live a life that
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Allusion between Romeo and Juliet and Antigone For years there have been discussions if in fact Shakespeare re-created material found in previous literature. Though‚ whether or not‚ he did Shakespeare created an effective allusion to Sophocles’ Antigone‚ the Greek tragedy. In Romeo and Juliet we see the love of two people‚ and the ones who pull them apart‚ then we see their final fate. In Atigone we see a lot of the same context which brings us to the main three ideas that make up the themes
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Shakespeare uses allusion in the play Romeo and Juliet to reinforce the themes of young love and youth being impetuous. Throughout the play Shakespeare uses allusion to reinforce these themes by putting in myths that have tragic ends much like the end of the play. One myth that Shakespeare uses in the play many times is Cupid and Psyche. Cupid is the Roman god of love. The myth of Cupid is that there was a king that had three daughters and each of them was beautiful but not as much of the youngest
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listen to Romeo and Juliet talk about their undying love for each other. Romeo and Juliet were two teenagers from two feuding families. They then fell in love after they met each other at the Capulet’s ball. Romeo and Juliet get married after about two days of knowing each other‚ but Romeo then is banished from being in a fight in the streets. Not long after‚ Juliet helps come up with a plan that gets her and Romeo together again. Romeo thinks that she is dead so‚ he then kills himself. Juliet woke up
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