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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“Ignorance is a poison that kills love‚ friendship‚ and all the good feelings.” ~unknown. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet ‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ a pair of star crossed lovers take their life. Romeo and Juliet take their own lives because of the man they trusted the most‚ Friar Lawrence. Lawrence’s carelessness and ignorance in his actions cause the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence’s carelessness was very evident when he was trying to help the lovers get back together but
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Throughout the novel‚ The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ several motifs are used as a way to bring a deeper meaning to quotes that may see you uninteresting from the surface. One very prominent motif in this novel is dreams and premonitions. These motifs are used throughout the novel as ways to introduce foreshadowing and insight into what characters may expect to happen. Most of the occurrences where dreams and premonitions appear are when characters are looking forward to an event or occurrence
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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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Directing Romeo and Juliet Being a director in a production such as Romeo and Juliet is no easy task‚ and I enter into this paper with that in mind. My goals are to be creative‚ and do things differently from the many versions of the play we have viewed in class. Each of those directors took the original text‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ and turned it into a unique version of their own; unique in the sense that they changed the tragedy by taking out lines‚ conversation or even entire scenes
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Romeo and Juliet is a story of tragedy‚ written by William Shakespeare during the 16th century. Through his use of imagery and soliloquies‚ he is able to convey the key ideas from his play to the audience in an engaging composition. His play is based around important forces that mould the events whilst unravelling the storyline in a tense and complex manner. The forces I discuss are fate‚ hate and love. Fate is a powerful force in the play of Romeo and Juliet where the events of the two characters
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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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Young Characters in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Why are the young characters of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet interesting? Every young character has a different set of characteristics which makes him/her interesting. Shakespeare portrays many important qualities of his young characters. Shakespeare portrays the young characters as rash and impulsive. Tybalt starts a fight with benvolio in Act One‚ Scene One (Shakespeare 15). This shows Tybalt is impatient. Since
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is one of the most popular romantic tragedies in history. The story talks about “TWO STAR CROSSED” lovers hence Romeo & Juliet both come from 2 families‚ in a ancient grudge more like enemies. Romeo is from the Montague family and Juliet is a Capulet. They saw each other at a party the Capulets had held; they fell in love and got married. However‚ it’s like something was stopping them from being happy; it was somehow leading both of them in a completely different
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Cassandra W. Romeo and Juliet Some people are reckless in decision making therefore causing their actions to do harm to others. Friar Laurence is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he secretly married the two without their parent consent‚ this is one of the reasons however there are more. Friar Laurence is a good hearted guy; he just wants to help out others by doing what he thinks are good for them. Friar Laurence because of his kindness and foolishness weds Romeo and Juliet
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