Romeo and Juliet‚ the dramatic love story everyone knows. Many times the play by William Shakespeare is compared to the movie produced by Baz Luhrman. Most always when movies are compared to the books‚ the books are better‚ but not quite in this case. Yes‚ the play is very good as well as the movie‚ but the play has its great parts‚ and its not so great parts as well. Just like the movie‚ it also has its good parts also many things that are the same in both the movie and play‚ but of course they
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Modernisation of Romeo and Juliet Intro: Romeo and Juliet is an original script by William Shakespeare. Baz Luhrmann modernised the script into a movie in 1996 to include a contemporary audience. Through the movie and script there are many differences and similarities. In this essay the setting‚ characters and symbolism will be examined and compared to talk about the similarities and difference. Para 1: Throughout Baz Luhrmann’s film and Shakespeare’s script there are similarities and differences
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Romeo and Juliet‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ is a novel about a young couple’s battle against fate. The story contains many character‚ each with their own attributes and actions. One of the most trait-evolved characters‚ each with their own attributes and actions. One of the most trait-evolved characters is Juliet Capulet. Although Juliet was brave‚ loyal‚ and persistent‚ her battle with fate was tragically lost. When Juliet’s father promises Juliet’s hand in marriage to Count Paris‚ she
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In Romeo and Juliet‚ marriage is the center of attention of the play. Despite‚ the feud between with their families‚ Capulet and Montague‚ the two lovers‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ ignore it and get married. This caused a lot of tension mostly because their love was impatient. That lead to the marriage being rushed. Therefore‚ the motif marriage conveys that love is impatient. Juliet’s love is impatient when she concerns about Romeo being married already. Juliet and the Nurse overlook Romeo at Capulet’s
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Romeo and Juliet. Another waste of my time or not? When hearing about the new modern day Romeo and Juliet my heart sank thinking about another boring old fashioned love story that has a reasonably unhappy ending (not something you want to waste 2 hours of your life on). But amazingly‚ when seeing the new trailer‚ I automatically got drawn in on this new phenomenon – shocking‚ I know. The way the writer portrays the trailer is that it’s going to be an action packed‚ romantic disaster film‚ which
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The play by William Shakespeare titled “Romeo and Juliet”‚ tells the story of a young couple. They tried relentlessly to overcome their family feuds to be joined in marriage. Though to everyone’s dismay‚ ended atrociously‚ when feelings of lust encouraged them to make drastic moves‚ all of which brought them to their deathbed. The suggestion of Romeo being responsible for their deaths is reinforced by characterizing him as impulsive and confused with what love is. Shakespeare conveys lust as
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“Romeo and Juliet” is a love story that will make you tear up and make you hate love stories. Love stories like Romeo and Juliet are very hard to watch without cringing and feeling obsessed. Romeo and Juliet is a very popular story that Zeffirelli and Luhrmann made different versions of it. Zeffirelli’s film was nominated for best director and best picture. The party scene is the main focus mostly for everyone because it is when the two star-cross’d lovers meet and fell in love at first sight. In
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In Act two‚ Scene two‚ Juliet proclaims to Romeo‚ “A thousand times good night!” Romeo then responds to Juliet by saying‚ “A thousand times the worse to want thy light.” Both Romeo and Juliet clearly want the night more than the day in order to keep their passionate love a secret. This is seen when Romeo responds to Juliet‚ “A thousand times the worse to want thy light.” These lines‚ with the light and dark contrast‚ heighten the elements of danger and safety because the night is what protects their
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Discuss the appropriation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Romeo+Juliet’ by Baz Luhrmann Texts and ideas from texts are appropriated and transformed into other text forms and other compositions in a different context. An appropriation is a text that is appropriated or taken over by another composer and presented in a new way. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a well-known high culture text that is a tragedy about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families
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Romeo And Juliet is an amazing play written by the all knowing William Shakespeare. It is a love story/tragedy that includes the two lovebirds Romeo and Juliet. They are from two different households that are enemies; Romeo is of the Montague family and Juliet is a Capulet. This makes it close to impossible for them to be together especially since Romeo killed Juliet’s cousin Tybalt whom Juliet’s parents loved very much. In the end‚ the couple ends up killing themselves over their “suicidal love”
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