Originating with kinship love, Juliet evolves in the presence of Romeo and develops a romantic, true love. ... Romantic love is the idea of being in "love with the idea of love". This romantic love is first experienced by Romeo as he mopes over Rosaline at the beginning of the play. ... Another character who experiences romantic love is Paris. ... Even when she is supposedly dead he still carries on in a formal and "romantic" manner. ...

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The sonnet is by a man referring his name is William Shakespeare and upon how descriptive and romantic he is within this Sonnet. ... The narrator desires stand upon accomplishing the description of the aging man with imagery while at the same time demonstrating how little time is left in his romantic love story. ... He wants for her to move on and don't grieve for him while he's gone but at the same time to never forget how they met and the awesome loving romantic life they shared together. ... To summarize, the story is about an old man who is aging and is going to miss his female ...

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Romeo and Juliet, dubbed as a romantic tragedy, is more about love than hate. Love, in its many forms, is an important theme in the play: the love not reciprocated - the unrequited love, the love of parents for their children - the familial love, the love that is created from friendship - the fraternal love, the romantic love and the love of family honour, is showcased through the characters. ... The most prominent form of love, the romantic, is illustrated throughout the whole play through the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet. Romantic love between Romeo and Juliet is the intense passion th...

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The three and the most important types of loves (in my opinion), are family love [storge"], romantic love [eros], and selfless love[agape"]. all of these love types are true and to be alive forever until the end of time. ... Next is Romantic love, the sweetest love and the most joyful love there is. ... Whether that love is Romantic, or family love, or even the selfless love they all show how love is great and forever, and nothing could separate tow people who truly love each other. ...

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In the studied text Shakespeare text the taming of the shrew one of the earliest of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, audiences witness universal theme such as gender relationships, family relationships and love. ... This further enables composers to reach a wider audience and helps to remould the issues into something new for the modern audience but not changing the fact that modern day audiences being just as relevant as the romantic comedy would have on the people in Shakespearean times with both having it's own values and assets. ...

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As Romeo and Juliet are alone together on the balcony their actions and dialog create a romantic atmosphere. ... The cold atmosphere now created on stage is in great contrast to the romantic, happy, love-sick atmosphere that we encountered early on in this scene. ...

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In 1949, choreographer Jerome Robbins decided to retell Brooke and Shakespeare's romantic tragedy using song and dance, elements of racism and nationalism, and a modern vernacular. ... The tumultuously intense meeting inspires the young romantic lead to negotiate peace in both versions. ...

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Romeo and Juliet: In scene 1, Romeo is acting very strange and is in love with a girl called Rosaline, but she doesn't love him back that's why Romeo is feeling sad and depressed. Romeo uses oxymoron and lots of romantic language. "O brawling love o loving hate" "A right good mark-man! And s...

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After this scene the atmosphere swiftly changes from romantic and comical to more serious and tragic. ... The play was vaguely set out in two main stages, the first being a sort of romantic comedy, and the second being a more tragic love. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Another example of when Romeo blames fate is on page 84 "o I am fortune's fool" even then he his blaming fate for what is happening to him because he says Romeo and Tybolt was very different characters Romeo was infested with love and was very romantic throughout the play and Tybolt was the total opposite he had a lot of hate in him and was very different he always wanted to fight and was very up front about what he did. ... Another example of when Romeo blames fate is on page 84 "o I am fortune's fool" even then he his blaming fate for what is happening to him because he says ...

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Comparison between Romeo & Juliet of Old and New (1968 and 1996 films) After viewing the two Romeo and Juliet films, one of which was directed by Frank Zeffereli in 1968 and the other by Baz Luhrman in 1996, I was able to come up with quite a few comparisons to Shakespeare's origin...

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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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By using just the right combination of words, or by conjuring just the right image, Shakespeare was able to write countless passages and entire play that were so powerful, poignant, comedic, tragic, and romantic, which are still know to this day. ...

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Baz Luhrmann directed such films as Strictly Ballroom, Romeo and Juliet and the musical Moulin Rouge. He has a very distinctive directing approach with particular techniques that define his style. He presents his films as if he were telling a story, which he invites you into. His stories are very si...

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At the start of Romeo & Juliet, we are introduced first to servants of the two feuding houses as they walk down the street of Verona, where the scene is set. While we don't yet know what exactly has caused the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets, we do know that both families are willing ...

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Symbolism and Imagery in A Midsummer Night's Dream In A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare brilliantly uses the night as a motif which plays a valuable role in the play. He combines this motif with the related symbols of the play to demonstrate the power of night and its correlation wit...

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Compare and Contrast the Language of Romeo and Juliet in the Balcony Scene Act II Scene 2 is one of the most famous scenes of the play. It is commonly known as the "Balcony Scene" because Juliet appears on a small balcony outside her bedroom window, and exchanges words, expresses true love ...

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The story of Romeo and Juliet has been told a thousand times, for hundreds of years. Even so, writers and storytellers tell their own variations of Romeo and Juliet, each with a different twist. Even Shakespeare in Love is a variation of the play William Shakespeare wrote. The movie is the classic R...

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Ann Bradstreet's poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband," is an interesting poem because its style is romantic and the poet professes her undying love for her husband and makes it a point to make her husband aware of the extent of love and devotion she has for him. ...

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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. Furthermore, the modern appropriation maintai...

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Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard, is a romantic-comedy drama that depicts a lustrous affair between the privileged Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) and the upcoming commoner playwright William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) which transpires during the fictional development of the play Romeo & Juliet. ...

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Personally, I believe that the was the primary cause; however Michael Rustin argues that the play is about the modern emotion of romantic sexual love and the inability of medieval society to deal with this emotion and that society was based on patriarchal authority. ...

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Do you believe in fate? To answer that question, you must first have a correct idea of what fate is. Webster's dictionary defines fate as "the power that is supposed to settle ahead of time how things will happen". The question lingers "Could there be such a power that regulates our lives, and if so...

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Aristotle is known to have said that a good tragedy needs to have one basic theme or plot. In the play Romeo and Juliet', this theme is love. Love of different kinds provides the base of all the excitement, anticipation and ultimately the tragedy of the play. There are many other themes that Shakes...

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