Comparison of film to playwright in Romeo and Juliet The Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet, was written in a time period that differs greatly from today. ... Due to the growing mental gap between the youth of today and the Shakespearean dialect, director Baz Luhrmann creates the modern day film version of Romeo and Juliet. ... The textual version of Romeo and Juliet is altered to give a new understanding to the modern world via the film version; mainly in the opening scene through use of modern scenery, language, and armory. ... When reading through the play, the reader may find it ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Turning from horror to incense after the death of his mother and another unpleasant encounter with lower caste twins undergoing "death conditioning-, John attempts to liberate the workers in line for their daily ration of the euphoric, hallucinogenic panacea for all things unpleasant, soma. ... John, in response to Lenina, calls upon memories of Romeo and Juliet as well as other plays by Shakespeare. ... When being read Romeo and Juliet, Helmholtz could not help from laughing hysterically at the Juliet's plea to her mother to delay the marriage to Paris because of the death of Tybalt. .....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate