ROMEO + JULIET: AN E TICKET RIDE The new release of Romeo and Juliet is fun, fast and exciting to watch. ... From the beginning the audience is told," buckle up, this Romeo and Juliet ride is going to be like no other Shakespeare you've ever ridden." ... One can argue that this version of Romeo and Juliet would be understood even without spoken words. ... This Romeo and Juliet is successful on many levels for many reasons. ... Unlike other productions of Romeo and Juliet which I've seen, I believe the actual meanings and ideas of Shakespeare's story are more easily digested ...

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In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare uses oxymorons to express and show the conflict in Juliet's heart when she learns that her husband has killed her favorite cousin. ... To show these emotions, Shakespeare uses oxymorons as Juliet storms: O serpent heart, hid with a flow"ring face! ... Juliet says Romeo has a serpent's heart. ... Juliet is comparing Romeo to an angel. ... As Juliet continues her ranting Shakespeare makes the oxymorons more graphic to show how Juliet's escalating emotions are overflowing. ...

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L1 English Essay- William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet "What type of love is the most powerful in Romeo & Juliet?" Discuss: In the book "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare there are many powerful types of love demonstrated. ... Romeo & Juliet. ... Romeo & Juliet. ... Love is a very powerful word and especially in William Shakespeare's story, "Romeo and Juliet." ...

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How successful is Baz Luhrman's film as an appropriation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"? Baz Luhrman's film, "Romeo and Juliet" is a highly successful appropriation of Shakespeare's classic because it reflects the attitudes of its modern context. ... Baz Luhrman's "Romeo and Juliet" is set in a modern city; a striking contrast to the Elizabethan England of William Shakespeare. ... Romeo and Juliet seem alive. ... In contrast, in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", the opposite was the case and Romeo and Juliet would have been seen as very disobedient to thei...

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Written in 1595, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is one of the most powerful and famous plays of all time. ... Fate and Destiny is an important theme in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ... An important motif in Romeo and Juliet is nature. ... Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she (II.II.1-6) When Romeo looks up at the window to Juliet's bedroom, Shakespeare uses a metaphor to compare Juliet's beauty to the rising sun. ... William Shakespeare used the theme of Fate and De...

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Should Romeo and Juliet be studied by freshman? Approximately 148,920 days, or 408 years ago, the incredible poet William Shakespeare wrote the infamous play that is now the greatest love story ever told-Romeo and Juliet. ... What better way to help an aspiring poet or play write than to study Romeo and Juliet. ... When one looks around there is evidence of Romeo and Juliet scattered throughout the world. ... Romeo and Juliet should definitely be taught and studied by freshman, and the amazing story by Mr. ...

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Romeo and Juliet Question: Romeo and Juliet's tragic deaths were fated to happen. ... Romeo and Juliet's death were fated to happen. From the start of the play to the finish the author (William Shakespeare) gives away little hints about Romeo and Juliet and how they are destined to die tragically. ... Romeo and Juliet had no control over the behavior of both their families. ... Romeo cannot help his feelings for Juliet so this is also classes fate. ...

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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare. ... Romeo and Juliet's destiny is to never be happy... Fate wants Romeo to be away from Juliet. (127 words) Juliet cannot be happy for long. ... This shows that Juliet has to make a choice. Juliet can only be happy for short periods of time. (108 words) Romeo and Juliet's destiny is to never be happy together. ...

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A Character Most Like Me Tyler Brown In Romeo and Juliet , by William Shakespeare, there are several minor and major characters. ... She, as Romeo shows in the play when he sees Juliet, was just amazing. ... He wanted Juliet and nothing would stop him! ... Another example I can relate to in the play is where Romeo goes to the Friar wanting to get married with Juliet right away. ... There is nothing that could stop Romeo and Juliet from getting married, except Friar Lawrence, and even he agreed on this occasion. ...

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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare in a masterpiece. Romeo and Juliet teaches the reader how difficult having a relationship can be when two people love each other but come from feuding families. For example, throughout the play Romeo and Juliet were only able to see each other at night because that was the only time of day they were able to sneak out without their families knowing. ... For example, when Romeo was given false information that Juliet was dead, she was in fact simply in a dead-like sleep. ... Romeo wanted to die and be dead along with Juliet. ...

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The production that I selected to critically review is Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Luhrmann's version of forbidden love and the eventual suicide deaths of young Juliet and Romeo is translated with a unique integration of modern setting and language without losing the original texture and meaning of Shakespeare's work. 1996's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is evidently intended for a younger demographic of viewers, partially due to quick paced and choppy editing, modern cultural allusions, as well as star power consisting of a cast ...

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In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet Capulet to me seems to be the most tragic of all Shakespeare's women characters. ... That shows us how treacherous and devious Juliet had to be to be with her Romeo. ... By waking up, Juliet finds out that Romeo died and decided to end her life to be with her Romeo. ... It was not the wrong thing to do because again, Juliet must be with her Romeo. ... Juliet died because she loved Romeo. ...

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Who was to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? The controversial end scene of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" leaves many unanswered questions in the mind of the reader. One of which is "Who was to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?". I believe that the most influential factor contributing to the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet is fate. ... The first one is in the prologue where it says, "star crossed lovers" which shows that it is inevitable that Romeo and Juliet fall in love. ...

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Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare in the 1500's. Romeo and Juliet is a story of two young lovers, whose love was destined for destruction. ... Romeo and Juliet both turned to others for help with their situation. ... Many situations in the play revealed that Romeo and Juliet's love would end in death. ... Romeo and Juliet were two young lovers who did nothing wrong, besides falling in love. ...

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William Shakespeare defines love in different ways in his writing as either being romantic love, lust, or mature love. ... "Romeo and Juliet" is a play written by William Shakespeare, which has a romantic love, but however, ends as a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet is a tale of two star-crossed lovers who secretly fall in love behind their families back. ... The play ends as Romeo mistakingly thinks that his Juliet is dead. ... She sees that Romeo is dead and takes her own life to be with him. ...

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Two of Shakespeare's greatest and well known works are A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet. ... First and foremost, the two stories are about star crossed lovers, one with a single pair, being Romeo and Juliet, and the other with two pairs, Lysander and Hermia, and then Demetrius and Helena, though Demetrius sought after Hermia love until the love spell with put upon him. In Romeo and Juliet, their two families are long time rivals, so naturally they have a problem with them falling in love, and they are forbidden to be with one another. ... They all met in semi-secluded, ...

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William Shakespeare's classical play "The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" begins with a prologue. ... Sonnets usually consist of 14 lines, the prologue of "Romeo and Juliet" follows this structure. ... I also think the he chose to use a sonnet is because Romeo and Juliet is about love and this is what sonnets were used for. ... Just as the 1997 film "Romeo and Juliet" uses a news bulletin to present the prologue because modern audiences are used to information being interpreted this way, Shakespeare used a sonnet because his audience would be used to these. ... Overall I think that that the...

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It is a great comedy with many similarities between Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet. ... In the case of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo hears about the masque and decides to go, thinking that he might be able to get away with this scheme. ... The love was disparate in each of Shakespeare's plays. ... In Romeo and Juliet, the balcony scene leads towards good love because Romeo and Juliet are actually falling in love with each other. ... Timing causes both Romeo and Juliet to lose their lives. ...

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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest literary examples of human fallibility. ... Romeo and Juliet, in love, but not wanting to upset their families and spark another fuse, marry in secret. ... He gives her a potion which will cause her to appear dead while Friar Lawrence sends for Romeo, who is in exile after killing a Capulet, Juliet's cousin. ... Romeo, under the false assumption that Juliet is dead, leaving him no purpose in life, kills himself. Juliet awakens shortly after to find both Paris and Romeo dead. ...

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Just substitute William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet for the actual television show and Verona Beach for the location. ... William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona Beach; a violent modern city of guns, money and greed. In this opulent world hate, rival gangs and families at war, Romeo (Leonardo Dicaprio) and Juliet (Claire Danes), are ignited by the passion of first forbidden love and Verona Beach explodes. Shakespeare's heart-wrenching tale of doomed love is told with passion, beauty, wit, furious energy and a worldwide, best selling soundtrack. ... Baz Lugrmann&...

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In the illustrious pay Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, Romeo shows his devoting love, sacrifice, and compassion towards Juliet. During the play, Romeo shows his love for Juliet when he says, "Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight." ... Juliet gives up her life when she sees Romeo dead. Juliet also reveals how much love she has for Romeo in the scene where Juliet is in her chamber on her balcony and starts off by saying, "O Romeo, Romeo! ... Romeo starts doing extreme things that proves he loves Juliet. ...

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In the illustrious pay Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, Romeo shows his devoting love, sacrifice, and compassion towards Juliet. During the play, Romeo shows his love for Juliet when he says, "Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight." ... Juliet gives up her life when she sees Romeo dead. Juliet also reveals how much love she has for Romeo in the scene where Juliet is in her chamber on her balcony and starts off by saying, "O Romeo, Romeo! ... Romeo starts doing extreme things that proves he loves Juliet. ...

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In the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo had to run away in order to meet Juliet. ... Instead of fighting on the street as in the play Romeo and Juliet, the two gangs plan, a rumble without weapons. ... Since Romeo and Juliet took place in the past, the laws were not as strict of sophisticated as today. ... In the play both Romeo and Juliet committed suicide. ... Romeo and Juliet cannot live without each other whereas Maria can live without Tony ...

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In 'Romeo and Juliet' William Shakespeare writes about different types of conflict, and how the conflict affects those around it. ... This seems to put a black feeling on to the meeting of Romeo and Juliet which happens as soon as he has spoken. ... After Romeo and Juliet's deaths, their fathers agree to drop the feud. ... We see this type of futility in Act 3 Scene 1 of 'Romeo and Juliet'. ... 'Romeo and Juliet', is possibly one of the most predictable pieces of work of all time. ...

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In the movie, "Shakespeare in Love", a young and energetic, William Shakespeare is encouraged by his peers to create a comedy play called "Romeo and Ethel, the pirates daughter", because at the time comedy plays were a big success. ... William obtains this wealth of inspiration for his new play from his new found love, Viola de Lesseps, and through the events that occur in "Shakespeare in Love", the audience can easily see that the play "Romeo and Juliet" and this movie, are parallels of each other. ... If I had to look at the performance continuum, I could easily break down the theatrical per...

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