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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Romeo + Juliet During the play of Romeo and Juliet‚ the characters show love in many different ways. Some characters fall in and out of love very quickly in Romeo and Juliet. For example‚ Romeo is in love with Rosaline at the start of the play‚ which is presented as an immature action. Today‚ we might use the term “puppy love” to describe this. Romeo’s lover Rosaline is shallow and nobody really believes that it will last‚ including Friar Laurence: Romeo – “Thou chid’st me oft for loving Rosaline”
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Akoya London English 9 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.
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us. They become so real that we build our lives around these unpredictable events. William Shakespeare uses this theme to describe love in his play Romeo and Juliet. Through these two main characters he shows how love is something we cannot get rid of‚ instead something you will take to the grave. Just like a disease‚ the memory and scars will always be there to remind you of your journey. “Alas‚ poor Romeo! He is already dead‚ stabbed with a white wench’s black eye‚ shot through the ear with a love
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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 Analysis Shakespeare‚ being the great writer he is‚ molds each character as if he was Michelangelo sculpting the David. The way these characters were brought into the story drastically changes the way the viewer sees their personas. The setting of the story is an older era in Verona‚ Italy around the 1300s. This story includes unique characters varying in ages and mindsets. Some younger characters were put into situations where they are forced to act maturely‚ like they are much
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How does Shakespeare present strong feelings about love in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘The Merchant of Venice’ In Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice There are many examples of strong love. The two most prominent examples of strong love are romantic love and unrequited love. In Romeo and Juliet‚ there appears to be more examples of unrequited love than that of romantic love‚ despite the main theme of the play being the romantic love between Romeo and Juliet. The unrequited love between Romeo
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Character Analysis Romeo is an essential character worth analyzing in William Shakespeare’s famous play‚ Romeo and Juliet. One way to describe Romeo is determined. Throughout Act 1 in the play at and after the party‚ he is determined to get Juliet. “What lady’s that‚ which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight?” (I.ib.46-47) In this line‚ Romeo is a the party and it is “love at first sight.” Romeo is very in love with Juliet. When Romeo first sees her at the Capulet ball‚ he completely forgets
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dates. However in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet’s case‚ it only took 1 glimpse before the main characters were arguably madly in love with each other. William Shakespeare was inspired to write his drama after reading The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke. William Shakespeare is also known for his 37 plays and 154 sonnets‚ as well as introducing 3‚000 words to the English Dictionary. In Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare writes about two young teens who immaturely fell
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Within Romeo and Juliet‚ parental neglect is the key factor causing the death of the star-cross’d lovers. Today‚ the effect of abuse is more apparent than it was in the 1500‘s. Children who have been subjected to parental neglect‚ verbal abuse‚ or physical abuse are scarred for life. Shakespeare gives the audience a look inside the family dynamic of Capulet. In fact‚ it can be seen as the direct cause of Juliet’s untimely death. With a family who’s primary focus is wealth and publicity‚ Juliet
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