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    130 and Romeo has a different perspective on love. The speaker loves his mistress despite that she may not be as beautiful as the things around her but Romeo falls in love with Juliet based on appearance‚ or love at first sight. Romeo falls in love with Juliet when he sees her. He says to himself‚ “Did my heart love til now?” He decides that he is in love with Juliet although he has never spoken to her. Romeo falls for her too quickly. Romeo’s love may also be infatuation. Before Romeo met Juliet

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    Shakespeare uses both love and beauty in Romeo and Juliet in order to express the characters feelings and opinions towards each other and also to express their understanding of love and beauty relative to the Elizabethan time period; in the same way that he does in ’sonnet 130’‚ Carol Ann Duffy does in ’Havisham’ and ’Valentine’‚ Lord Byron in ’She walks in beauty’ and John Donne in ’The Flea.’ Although their poems all differ (whether it’s in choice of language‚ style or the overall focus of the

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    Luhrmann is the director of a modern version of Romeo and Juliet (written by Shakespeare). There are many differences from the movie and the book‚ such as swapping swords for guns‚ to really emphasize the violence there was in that day. However‚ despite the differences between the book and movie‚ Luhrmann kept to a very similar plot. His point in the movie was to make people believe that love at first sight was possible‚ that it was fate that Romeo and Juliet met and fell into deep love. He shows

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    it is pursued consciously and ruthly‚ for an instant that may seem real‚ however‚ the pursuit will ultimately compromise happiness‚ not gain it. It connects deeply with Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird along with William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. In both texts‚ the authors similarly

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    Romeo and Juliet Critique Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann have both directed a film version of Romeo and Juliet very well‚ but a movie can not capture everything from the book. So‚ which movie portrayed the book better? There are aspects of both movies that portray the book better. For example‚ there could one movie could show the character’s personality better than the other one or one movie can show the city of Verona better than the other movie did. Small details of a scene could make

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    lovers of Juliet Capulet are different in many ways‚ but similar in many as well. These characters are from the play of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Concerning their love for Juliet‚ there are many similarities and differences between Romeo and Paris. Paris and Romeo have different reasons for dying‚ but the causes are connected by their love for Juliet. Juliet’s love causes both Paris and Romeo to suffer from great sadness‚ but each for different reasons. The dedication to Juliet that Paris

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    Nan Howell Computer 9 25 February 2016 Comparison and Contrast between Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story West Side Story by Lehman is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. There are many similarities and differences between Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet and the modern musical West Side Story. Overall‚ the stories are similar‚ however there are some differences. The plot and theme of Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story are very similar. Both are tragedies with

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    The outsiders book‚ and movie are both interesting and entertaining  but they aren’t exactly alike. They both are similar ‚because they both talk about the same people and tell the same story.The book has several differences than the movie like dally dying instantly after being shot by the fuzz ‚Johnny’s mom yelling at pony and two-bit those are just a couple of differences in the two there are several more though.    Some friends who are just “greasers” and they keep having problems with the “socs”

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    Shakespeare The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ and those of Pyramus and Thisbe‚ by Ovid are both alike and different in many various ways. Some including but not limited to‚ characters‚ setting‚ obstacles characters face‚ and events throughout the story. In our opinion‚ Pyramus and Thisbe is more alike compared to The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet than different. There are some obvious Comparisons but once you dig a little deeper‚ there’s more than meet the eye. One major similarity was that they were both

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    border and another from the east. At first Montague didn’t know what he was seeing until the watchtower at the tip of the plateau suddenly lit up. A watchman barked‚ “Fires! On the islands! Fires!” he shouted. “The Faux tower is lit!” Night guards took out their horns of hollowed antler and joined the alarm. “Alert your men! Search and secure the entire kingdom!” Montague commanded. He glanced one last time at the flames raging across the islands of Grale and Mern. It reminded him of the

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