West Side Story written by Arthur Laurents is actually a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The West Side Story is set in Upper West Side Manhattan. It is about rivalry between two teenage gangs of different backgrounds. Anton‚ a member of the white gang‚ fell in love with Maria‚ the sister of the leader of the rival Puerto Rican gang. Romeo and Juliet is undoubtedly the most popular romantic love story to ever hit the literary world. It talks about intense passion between the
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Renaissance Essay In what ways is ‘the other’ explored in two of the plays studied in Semester 1? Shakespeare’s plays have always had a hard-hitting effect on their audiences as they are often used as a vehicle to explore fears or concerns of the time. In the two tragic plays‚ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Anthony and Cleopatra’‚ Shakespeare uses mythology‚ issues of power and sexuality and in particular concentrates on the concept of ‘the other’. In this use of the term ‘the other’ we are referring
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Romeo and Juliet Analysing Act 3 Scene 5 Act 3‚ scene 5 is a crucial scene in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. The scene is a springboard from which the play plummets to a grizzly end and the subtle climax of the series of events before it. It also contains elements of many of the main themes of the play‚ love‚ trust‚ family‚ hate‚ fate and some interesting theatrical techniques such as dramatic irony and double meanings. The scene is quite easy to analyse being constructed of four duologues
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includes Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In Romeo and Juliet‚ rival families‚ the Montagues and Capulets are continuously killing one another in order to get reverence for the recently deceased ones. First Mercutio is killed‚ and then as a result many other people are killed‚ the feud ultimately ends with the death of the two titular characters. Another time in literature when violence has gotten out of hand was in. Robert Louis Stevenson novel. Dr. Jekyll
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Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet are from two prominent and feuding families who reside in the city of Verona‚ a real city in northern Italy. As far as the audience are aware‚ they are their parents’ only offspring‚ the only other ‘children’ in the family are Benvolio and Tybalt‚ cousins to Romeo and Juliet respectively. As only children‚ their parents are naturally protective of them – Juliet’s father‚ especially. Towards the beginning of the play‚ in Act 1‚ Scene 2‚ Paris asks Capulet for permission
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to do so. Out of all the supporting characters in the play‚ Mercutio is actually the person at fault for this young couple’s demise. When he is put into the play‚ Mercutio is a flamboyant person who is not afraid to defend himself or his friends. His best friend is Romeo‚ and first encounters Romeo in Act II of the play. Mercutio is a bit older than Romeo‚ but sometimes acts much younger. An example of this is in Act II where Mercutio is trying to get Romeo’s attention and he says‚ “ conjure thee
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and heroine‚ the voluble and witty Mercutio is as memorable a character as is found in all of Shakespeare’s plays. He acts as a significant character in terms of plot advancement; but more importantly‚ Mercutio himself is a fascinating man in many aspects. Mercutio is not part of the Montague family‚ he is however a friend of Romeo’s and related to the Prince of Verona. One would think this puts him relatively outside the family feud‚ but we learn that Mercutio is only all to willing to play along
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give out. Even though‚ the servant didn’t know how to read‚ he asked one of the four men in a little room to read it‚ that man was Romeo. The servant asked Romeo to read it to him. Mercutio tried to convince him to go to the party to look for her. But‚ while
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Casablanca‚ (Michael Curtiz‚ 1942)‚ explores the ideals of love and sacrifice in the context of World War Two. These themes are propagated by the selfless actions of Rick‚ a cynical night club owner‚ and Ilsa‚ who must suppress her love for Rick in order to support her husband‚ Victor Laszlow‚ an anti-Nazi crusadist. The key scene in which Rick and Ilsa are reunited in the presence of Victor Laszlow and Captain Louis Renault at Rick’s Café emphasizes the tensions which arise from Rick and Ilsa’s
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The Nurse fills the role of Juliet’s mother and Friar Laurence acts as Romeo’s father. Discuss the importance of these characters in Romeo and Juliet. In Shakespeare’s marvellous play Romeo and Juliet‚ we witness an unreal love affair between two teenagers in Fair Verona who are guided by two major characters: the Nurse‚ and Friar Laurence. Both of these characters each help accompany both Romeo and Juliet in their four day adventure through the ups and downs of one of the most powerful forces
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