How far do you think Shakespeare presents Romeo and Juliette as victims of fate? Williams Shakespeare ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is one of world most renowned love tragedies. One of the most prominent themes that runs through out the play is fate and how this leads to the lovers tragic end. This was a common theme in many of Shakespeare plays as during the Elizabethan period most people believed in the power of fate. I believe that Romeo and Juliette were victims of fate and many times In the story
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Violence is a very powerful and stressful behavior shown throughout this play by many of the characters. Violence also plays a very important role in The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Without violence‚ Romeo would not have slain Tybalt and been banished from Verona thus causing all of problems between him and Juliet. Violence can also be very stressful to a person. It can cause them to have many problems with life‚ love and other personal things. Violence can have lasting effects on someone that can
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Does Romeo truly love Juliet? I think in this case he truly does. Love can happen in a lot of strange ways‚ In a blink of an eye (like with Romeo and Juliet) or it can take over 15 years (like in the movie when Harry met Sally. Although I’m pretty sure it is just Romeo and Juliet who falls in love that quickly. Romeo’s capacity of feelings is rather larger than the normal person though. When he love’s he loves‚ when he’s angry he kills a Capulet‚ when he’s sad (about Juliet) he kills himself‚ Sad
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The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragic love story about two “lovers” who took their life for one another. Each Romeo and Juliet at some point in the play expressed a type of love for either someone or for something. Whether is be eros‚ agape‚ or phileo love. Eros love is a type of erotic love that develops between sexual feelings. Agape is a type of love that resonates from selfless love . People show agape love through sacrifices‚ like Jesus. Lastly ‚ phileo love is a type
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the love in Romeo and Juliet the driving force behind the play’s success. Shakespeare incorporated many different types of love in order to capture the hearts of the Elizabeth Era. Juliet’s nurse shows amazing concern for the young girl’s well being. She‚ in some ways‚ takes the place of her natural mother ("Examples of Love in Romeo and Juliet"). Lady Capulet treated Juliet as a naïve young girl with no knowledge and feelings of her own. Nurse recognized the maturity of Juliet and helped
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Florence‚ Italy. Both Luhrmann and Zeffirelli version use Shakespeare play if Romeo and Juliet. However‚ Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet is more like it happened in modded time. And Zeffirelli is more like Shakespeare traditional play. Zeffirelli does a better job retelling the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. First‚ the setting in Zeffirelli version help makes the movie do a better job retelling the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. For example‚ the setting help makes it looks like it happened in accurate
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Well it was fate‚ as the prologue predicts the ending before hand "star-crossed lovers" meaning they were born under the wrong stars‚ this is astrology which with microcosm and macrocosm was popular in the 16th century. Astrology states that the stars are an essential part of our lives and play a part in the sequence of events. Macrocosm and microcosm are based on the fact that what happens in nature has consequences in the lives of human. At the beginning of Romeo and Juliet‚ the Nurse remembers
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How does Shakespeare create sympathy for Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare creates sympathy for the two protagonists in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ skilfully using emotive language‚ sonnet form‚ alliteration and metaphor. Before the play begins‚ the audience are told that it will end in a disaster. This creates an emotive reaction in the audience throughout the play as they are reminded of the fate of the two young lovers. This is emphasised by the fact that the protagonists foreshadow their own
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is the tragic tale of “a pair of star-crossed lovers‚” (1.Prologue.6). Fate brought them together‚ and ripped them apart within three days. The lovers came from two feuding families who hated each other. Romeo‚ a Montague‚ was encouraged by his friend Mercutio to attend Capulet’s party‚ where he met Juliet‚ a Capulet‚ and they fell in love right away. They married the next day‚ but Capulet had already promised Juliet to County Paris‚ a wealthy man who he approved
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29 April 2013 Movie vs. Play The play Romeo and Juliet is a very long play written by Shakespeare. The play is written about two star crossed lovers that in the end of the play kill themselves. The play‚ written in the 16th century was bound to be a little different than its recreation as a film 400 years later. There are major differences in the movie and the play such as‚ some people are visual learners and the movie is a good visual‚ in the movie the places where things happen are
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