" Romeo and Juliet". ... Many factors can combine to result in the deaths of these two characters. ... Two other notable characters that raised the idea that human responsibility was the reason for the unnecessary deaths were Tybalt; nephew of Lady Capulet, and Mercutio; friend of Romeo. ... The immature and foolish behaviour that both characters seemed to own would come and go freely. ... Romeo's character also resembled that of Juliet's. ...

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The exception is Romeo and Juliet. ... 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 their parents. ... Juliet and Romeo are completely besotted with each other. ... The recurring imagery system sets the mood of each scene and allows the audience to see the place of each character. ...

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Often, people lay the blame with fate, or the violent nature of the feud the Capulets and the Montagues were engaged in, or the character flaws of Romeo and Juliet, or even the wrath of other characters, such as the temper of Lord Capulet or the bloodthirsty brutality of Tybalt. ... In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, much of the conflict within the story was motivated by a sense of pride or honor by the characters, as shown through the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues, the proud familial ties that characters are bound to, the forced marriage between Juliet and Paris, and the c...

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Don John alternately is introduced being quiet and shy, and a quiet character to a modern audience is a suspicious one, therefore is seen as an untrustworthy villain. ... Tybalt is a Catholic character, and as he states "to strike him dead, I hold it not a sin," he is saying that to murder Romeo would not be a sin, as they have hated each other for so long that Tybalt thinks that God would exonerate him for killing Romeo. ... The audience can tell that Don John is the principle villain of the play, as he manipulates other characters and attempts to destroy their happiness on two occasions. ......

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The film begins with Shakespeare experiencing 'writers block', his apparent desperation is concealed only when faced by theatre owner's terrorising him for a copy of his proposed new play: 'Romeo & the Pirate's Daughter Ethel'. Once the play begins to take shape, he soon drops the proposed title and begins development of what we now know as Romeo and Juliet and it is within the casting of this play that he meets Viola. ... Whilst Shakespeare allotted his female characters from a patriarchal perspective, he was perceptive enough to consider 'authentic'...

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Not only has he created such characters with strong charisma, but his themes- love, betrayal, esteem, bravery and political tragedy are yet still very much alive today. Society is interested in his work to this this day because yet after four hundred years, we are still able to relate to his characters. ... In plays like Romeo and Juliet, he not only criticized arranged marriages but he presented Juliet with a sense of feminism and he made Juliet ruin gender stereotypes by proposing to Romeo in Act 2 scene 2. ... However, this fascinated women because they were usually presented as fragile cha...

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In the vein of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet or of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge film, it tells of a heroic Brahman merchant by the name of Carudatta, and his one love, Vasantasena, who is "a ravishingly beautiful and intelligent courtesan" (Oxford 449). ... As the play is romantic in nature, it is peppered throughout with interesting characters from all walks of life, giving the play a humorous bent. ... In either case, an actor's character depiction is conventionalized, similar to the use of stock characters in Italian drama. ...

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