What she means by this quotation (on the last night her and Romeo spend together, as he is slipping into the darkness) is that she wants Fortune to be inconsistent like it has been before, so that Romeo's fate can change and he can come back to her. ... Cupid will make someone go against the "everything in moderation" rule, use their heart over their head, and use their passion over their reason by making them fall into an unreasonable amount of love. People in the Elizabethan era thought that Cupid was a bad omen because of this; everything should be in moderation, one should their head ...

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The sky was dark. I was sure that a rain's about to come. I had no choice but to settle inside my room. I was watching the hands of the clock move as time passed by. Raindrops were loudly pouring outside. The day was awfully boring. I suddenly felt the urge to write a story. There's a music video I'...

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When Romeo arrives the music changes and everything is calm again it also starts to get darker gradually. ... The use of an old seventies song "young hearts run free" is very effective at the party scene. ...

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William Shakespeare purposely contrasted these two themes to convey an idea that one cannot exist without the other, a balance in all things in nature, for instance, the correlative use of a light/dark polarity. ... Romantic love between Romeo and Juliet is the intense passion that springs up at their first sight (Did my heart love till now? ...

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Comparable to the Montague boys, Abram and Tybalt (of the Capulet household) also have tattoos and are wearing dark clothing. ... Mercutio hands Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) a small box containing a white pill inside that has engraved a heart with an arrow. ...

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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 ...

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