... his works, including both the Sydney and Broadway productions of La Boheme. The word features in red lettering resembling the Coca-Cola sign. In Strictly Ballroom the lovers kiss in front of the large sign, in Romeo and Juliet, Leonardo Dicaprio walks past the sign and in Moulin Rouge it appears as L"amour Fou, as in the French for "mad love ... end. Luhrmann's film makes good use of this, and to remind the audience of the tragedy involved the film begins with a television on screen with a news reporter speaking the first lines of the play as a recent news report announcing the death of...

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We are looking at the language in Act 2 Scene 2 and examining how it educates the audience about the characters and setting. When Shakespeare presented Romeo and Juliet in front of an audience around 1595 he had few props so therefore limited setting. Shakespeare's Elizabethan audience created what the setting looked like in their minds by listening to the elaborate ... ten syllables are shard between two speeches, five then five. Shakespeare did this so the person comes in quicker and it makes it easier for the actors to remember their lines. Juliet says how she does not want Romeo to swear...

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... for a kinsman (Romeo) that it is dead." Not long after this incident Juliet goes to Friar Laurence to discuss her troubles. Juliet then finds herself promising to commit suicide in front of the Friar. Once again we can see that Juliet is a confident character because the Friar takes her seriously. In other words, the friar does not underestimate that Juliet does ... weakness. She spends a short time worrying over the potion and what may happen to her, "What if it be a poison which the friar Subtly hath ministered to have me dead" (lines 24 - 25) but she soon summons her inner strength a...

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