Shakespeare's Elizabethan audience created what the setting looked like in their minds by listening to the elaborate description Shakespeare wrote. ... Meaning, "Why are you called Romeo?" ... This means that whatever you call a rose it is still going to smell good. ... Meaning perhaps he would like more, sexually. ... I think that Shakespeare has done this to make Juliet not just seem like a push over to Romeo. ...

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In many ways, Shakespeare was very ahead of his time. ... This town is completely created artistically by the filmmakers, you can't visit it. ... It is a busy and open area, much like the market setting portrayed in the original script, which is also busy. ... They seem like typical American youngsters having fun in their car with the music turned up. ... The scene of the balcony is the second of the love scenes, and as you go through the play they all have things in common that you notice. ...

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(Like in twenty-four hours you could be that close to someone). ... It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden / Too like the lightening, which doth cease to be." ( Act 2, Scene 2) Shakespeare is sending a warning through Juliet's mouth. ... By making Juliet's movements so slow, Luhrman makes you involved in the movie because you just want to scream, "Move faster Juliet, Romeo look. she's alive!" ... Luhrman modernized some things a bit too much, like Mercutio and the guns. The scenes that he changed, like the balcony scene, were for the worse. ...

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Romeo and Juliet is a well-known Shakespeare in which fate plays an important part. ... This is showing how Shakespeare uses fate in his play. ... If you did this it was thought God sent you to hell when you died. ... Reading this quote makes you see how she is feeling, like been in a shut cardboard box and at any moment the bottom opens and you fall down to hell. ... He says if you don't marry Paris on Thursday I will disown you. ...

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Zeffereli's adaptation, in my eyes, is extremely conservative, in other words, very Shakespearean like. ... Using your imagination is an important element in making Shakespeare's words come to life, in fact, in anything that you read. ... The dialogue in this first scene between the servants is very well known to those familiar with the words of Romeo and Juliet, Abram says to Sampson, "Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"... How conservative is Luhrman's production of Romeo and Juliet, you may ask, in contrast to Zeffereli's? ... If you think abou...

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Carton is so disillusioned with his own life, that he can't even like his client [who looks like him], "Do you particularly like the man?" He muttered, at his own image; "why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like- (Dickens 103). ... Shakespeare has Friar Lawrence state [about Romeo's multiple infatuations], "Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes" (1.3.67-68). ... He is thoroughly changed from his introductory state of slovenly, cynical drunk, to a man willing to sacrifice his own life for the wo...

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William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, is one of the greatest love stories of all time. ... Shakespeare made her character a mere thirteen years old, but she acts mature beyond her years. ... When her mother asks her how she feels about marriage, she replies, "I'll look to like, if looking like move; but no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly."... She tells her mother this in hope that she will delay the marriage, "Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies." ... It is very obvious that Shakespeare...

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The female characters in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are no exception. ... When Juliet discovers that Romeo has been banished and Tybalt slain, the Nurse says to her, "Hie you to your chamber. I"ll find Romeo/ To comfort you. ... She feels like a victim of circumstance and therefore she thinks she must complain to Juliet. ... The three females in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet all seem like they are based around people who actually existed. ...

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There is no better example than in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ... The love song by Enrique Iglesias - Be with you, is another example of love. ... When Hugh was confronted by Mollie, he lied to her face; Mollie: "You"d never be a gin's man Hughie?" ... However, everyone is expected to take those chances in life much like the characters in Romeo and Juliet. ... It just took two teenagers to show them the light, much like teenagers can change adult's ways of thinking today....

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In William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Julie,"t three responsible adults are the Nurse, Capulet, and Friar Laurence. ... The nurse returns with the plans for their wedding, "Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell,There stays a husband to make you a wife" (II, v, 68-69). ... Will you be ready? Do you like this haste?... In conclusion, the nurse, Capulet, and Friar Laurence are all responsible adults in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ...

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The controversial end scene of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" leaves many unanswered questions in the mind of the reader. ... If Romeo and Juliet had not fallen in love than the events that occurred after they met would have never happened, but no one can control whether or not you fall in love and who with, which suggests fate was the over-riding influence in the play. Romeo and Juliet's parents are also partly to blame due to the fact that they did not behave like responsible adults and continued the feud. ...

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Romeo and Juliet Essay In the story "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" William Shakespeare has a different purpose or meaning he wants each specific character to display. ... He is behaving like a dignified gentleman. ... Now Mercutio being a montague you would think Romeo would cheer himon, but he must stop them both because Tyblat is now his kin also a part of his family yet he does not know. ... Boy, you cannot excuse what you have already done to me; so turn and fight! ...

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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. ... ve liked for a while. ... One of the flaws that I mentioned I would tell you about earlier is how sensitive Romeo is. ... Even though I care about girl's feelings a lot, I don't go home and weep and cry like a little girl like Romeo did. ... Especially not over something like this. ...

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Shakespeare deliberately does not begin the play by talking about Romeo and Juliet. ... Shakespeare uses dramatic irony here, because the audience is aware that Romeo and Juliet will end up dying at the end of the play, thus ending the feud. ... Hindley treats Heathcliff like a servant, but luckily Mr. ... Heathcliff follows the traditional "like father like son" concept and completely abuses Hareton. ... If it passed to me from you tomorrowI would abandon it"(108). ...

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In William's Shakespeare immortal tale, Romeo and Juliet, love and hate are juxtaposed to portray the antithesis between the two themes. ... Saw you / him to-day? ... There is a naivety about her answer: "I'll look to like, if looking move. / But no more deep will I endart mine eye / Than your consent gives strength to make it fly" (I.i. 98-100). ... Shakespeare uses Benvolio and Mercutio as representatives of the Montague 'gang'. The Capulet group is represented in the same way, but Shakespeare needs only concentrate on Tybalt as the leader. ...

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"There are plenty ways to die, but only love can kill and keep you alive to feel it." ... Without the theme of heartbreak the play would have been like a fairytale with a happy ending. Heartbreak is showed drastically through the story with the ups and downs Romeo and Juliet face through their journey of love.Throughout the story, William Shakespeare presents the theme of heartbreak in through dramatic irony and dialogue. ... There are plenty ways to die, but only love can kill and keep you alive to feel it. ...

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His Romeo and Juliet released in 1996 is a unique adaptation of one of William Shakespeare's finest plays. ... The film really brings light to how fantastic Shakespeare's plays are and many would agree that it does him justice. ... Tybalt's wearing of black makes him look like the angel of death, and he is. ... Romeo and Juliet are both very plain at their wedding to show that this is true love and you don't have to dress it up. ... In the film bands like Garbage, The Cardigans, and Radiohead update the text and make it more like the original. ...

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For this reason, Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies. ... Shakespeare sets us up in Act I for the fateful tragedy that unfolds when they first see each other and realize who they are. ... "If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed."" ... Then I defy you, stars." ... As the coincidences in the novel build up, the reader's idea of reality changes, and enables Shakespeare to create one of his greatest tragedies, Romeo and Juliet. ...

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Do you agree? ... Romeo is too sensitive in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", which leads him to react to quickly to the events in the play. ... Like many love struck teenagers his feelings alter instantaneously. ... "Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence's cell, there stays a husband to make you a wife." ... Even a young man like Balthasar recognises the recklessness of Romeo's emotional and rash response to the news of Juliet's death. ...

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In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, two star-crossed lovers are paused from falling in love, due to two family feuds. ... For example, when Romeo tells Benvolio of his first love, Benvolio tells him that they will soon be together, but Romeo claimsin that bit you miss. ... Nowadays, couples still rely on death to help satisfy them, like Romeo and Juliet. ...

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Describe how one character faced a challenge or found something difficult, and explain what you thought about this." In the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare. ... Romeo said that living in Verona with Juliet is like living in heaven and without her he would feel like that he has been sent to hell. Romeo says this to Friar Laurence because Laurence is not young like him, not in love like him and they're not in the same situation so he thinks that Friar Laurence wouldn't understand. ... I think the play Romeo and Juliet teaches us that we should think things th...

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In William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet two worlds are in chaos, two families warring for control of fair Verona. ... One day Prince Esculus, ruler of Verona, had had enough a decreed that "If ever you disturb our streets again your lives shall pay the forfeit of peace." ... The Friar then told Romeo and Juliet to keep their marriage a secret because if this came out at the wrong time it could cause a fight between the families like none ever seen. ... In my opinion Shakespeare's point in this play is that violence solves nothing. ...

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Romeo and Juliet, the two young lovers in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, seemed destined by fate. ... Maybe we don't recognize it because we choose not to, or because man kind doesn't have faith like we used to, but it remains true that fate played an essential role throughout this play. ... Like Romeo says "And, But thou love me, let them find me here. / My life is better ended by their hate, / Than death prorogued, wanted of thy love." (2.2.76) He would have rather died than to have lived without Juliet, or not to have Juliet's love and be left only with ha...

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Aren't your friends or family members suppose to be the ones who are always there for you, and never let you down? ... You see, Shakespeare, the author of Romeo & Juliet wrote the story in a way that Juliet a main character in the story, whenever seeks for guidance from her friends and family members, especially when she needs it most, is always betrayed or let down. ... I think her mother should of been on Juliet's side, because she's her mother and she has experience in marriage and should know marrying someone you do not like is not a good idea. ... Friar Lawrence should ...

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Love Conquers All Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has been seen as the most tragic love story in history. ... Love is a dangerous emotion a lot like fire is to the elements. ... It deafens you so you cant hear anything but there voice. ... It makes you cold when you don't have there loving arms holding you. ... The Friar had made a potion for Juliet to take which makes her look like she had passed on. ...

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